On February 15, 2024, Raphaëlle Laframboise-Carignan will be presenting on a panel hosted by the Law Society of Nunavut, titled “Workplace Obligations of Employees and Employers in Nunavut and Ontario”. The panel will discuss employment law in Ontario and Nunavut, including recent legal cases and changes in the law on workplace harassment, violence, and discrimination.

For more information or to register, please see the Facebook event or the online registration form.

Dayna Steinfeld has been awarded the 2022 Faculty of Law Alumni Emerging Leader Award by the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law.

The Emerging Leader Award honours a UM Law alumnus who has graduated within the last 10 years, has shown dedication and commitment to the legal profession, and has the qualities of integrity, professionalism, and leadership in their time practicing law. Read more about the award here.

On February 10, 2023, Amarkai Laryea presented as part of a panel at the Canadian Association of University Teachers Equity Conference. Amarkai presented as part of a panel, tiled “Yes, We Can Do This,” which addressed questions from conference participants on specific equity issues.

On January 19, 2023, Dayna Steinfeld will be moderating a panel at the Manitoba Bar Association 2023 Mid-Winter Conference, one of the marquee professional development events in Manitoba. Dayna will be moderating a panel discussion on “Pay Equity in the Legal Profession”, which will feature a diverse panel of speakers on the data (and lack thereof, due to resistance to the collection of data within the profession) to help legal professionals in Manitoba understand pay (in)equity in the legal profession.

Topics will include the findings and recommendations in the Canadian Bar Association’s report on pay equity in the profession, compensation studies of in-house counsel, relevant legal considerations, and the role that legal employers, law societies, governments and lawyers can play in closing the gender pay gap and achieving pay equity in the legal profession.

More information and registration are available here.

RavenLaw is proud to announce that Sarah-Claude L’Ecuyer has been awarded the 2022 Alison Dewar Scholarship in Women’s Equality, Labour and Human Rights Law.

Sarah-Claude is in her third year at the University of Ottawa and has demonstrated a deep commitment to the values that Alison held dear. She is the President and founder of the Social Justice Society, an active volunteer with the National Association of Women and the Law, and her article on the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society case will soon be published in the National Journal of Constitutional Law. Congratulations, Sarah-Claude!