News & Announcements

News & Announcements from Pro Bono Students Canada

• PBSC Partners on International LGBT Rights Project!

  PBSC is a partner on a major, five year research project on LGBT rights in the Global South, funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.  The Envisioning Global LGBT Rights project is an international, multi-disciplinary project … Read More

• CCLA General Counsel Keynotes PBSC Montréal Symposium!

  PBSC’s three Montréal chapters – McGill, the University of Montréal and the University of Québec at Montréal – came together to host a symposium on January 12, 2012. The event featured a keynote speech by Canadian Civil Liberties Association General … Read More

• PBSC Launches 2011-2012 Program Year!

  Once again, PBSC chapters from coast to coast enlisted some of the country’s leading pro bono lawyers to speak to thousands of law students across Canada about the tremendous value of pro bono. Every September, all 21 PBSC chapters launch … Read More

• PBSC and our Supporters Earn Several New Awards!

  PBSC recently reported that we earned a 2011 Lexpert Zenith Award for the Tax Court of Canada Advocacy Project we launched with Fraser Milner Casgrain.  Since that time, we’ve received word that one of our chapters and two of our … Read More

• PBSC’s U of T Chapter Launches Two Innovative Pilot Projects!

  Pro Bono Students Canada has piloted two exciting volunteer opportunities for University of Toronto students with an interest in either business law or tax law.

  Together with our law firm partner McCarthy Tétrault, PBSC has created an internship for three … Read More

• PBSC’s Innovative Tax Court of Canada Project Earns Lexpert Zenith Award!

  PBSC is proud to announce that the Lexpert Zenith Awards has chosen PBSC’s Tax Court of Canada Advocacy Project  as the highest level winner in its “Law Firm Contribution to Legal Education” category.  PBSC has partnered with Fraser Milner Casgrain … Read More

• PBSC partnering with leading academics on innovative family justice survey

  Access to the family law justice system is one of the most pressing areas of civil legal need in Canada.  PBSC is delighted to be partnering with Professor Nick Bala of Queen’s University and Dr. Rachel Birnbaum of King’s University … Read More

• Justice Rosalie Abella delivers powerful address on access to justice at PBSC 15th Anniversary Dinner

  As PBSC celebrates 15 years of service, new projects ‘solidify the organization in Canadian legal landscape of the future’. Highlighting the need for radical reforms and compassion at the Pro Bono Students Canada 15th anniversary dinner, Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella, … Read More

• PBSC invited to Santiago, Chile for an international conference on pro bono in the Americas!

  PBSC National Director Nikki Gershbain was invited to Santiago, Chile, along with law practitioners from across the Americas for an International conference: “Strengthening Access to Justice” on April 7 and 8, 2011.  Gershbain spoke about the role law students and … Read More

• PBSC Osgoode and PBSC U of T Host a Jam-Packed, Joint Volunteer Appreciation Event!

  For the first time, the University of Toronto and Osgoode Chapters of Pro Bono Students Canada came together to hold an appreciation event for their volunteers and partners on March 4, 2011.  The event was hosted by PBSC’s National Law … Read More

• PBSC Celebrates 15th Anniversary with a Dinner and Keynote by Justice Rosalie Abella: SOLD OUT!

  Pro Bono Students Canada is thrilled to announce that Justice Rosalie Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada will deliver a lecture at the PBSC National Training Conference on Thursday June 2, 2011, titled “And Justice For All…”.  Justice Abella … Read More

• Pro Bono Event: Discussion of the Decriminalization of Sex Work in Canada

  On November 3rd, Pro Bono McGill, Pro Bono Université du Québec à Montreal (UQAM), Pro Bono Université de Montréal (UdM) and the Legal Information Clinic of UQAM held a joint conference on the decriminalization of sex work in Canada. Fifty students came … Read More

• PBSC’s National Director Joins U of T Working Group on Access to Justice

  PBSC’s National Director, Nikki Gershbain, is serving as part of a distinguished team of professionals and academics at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, working to address the problem of access to justice for lower and middle-income … Read More

• PBSC Wins Canadian Pro Bono Award

  The 2010 Canadian Pro Bono Awards selected PBSC’s Family Law Project as the winner of its National Pro Bono Program Award. The awards are presented as part of the 3^rd National Pro Bono Conference, and honour individuals, groups or … Read More

• National Pro Bono Conference to Feature PBSC-organized Panel

  The 3^rd National Pro Bono Conference will feature a PBSC-organized panel of leading academics and professionals, discussing the role of law schools in fostering pro bono and public interest values.… Read More

• PBSC partners with Lexpert Zenith Awards

  Pro Bono Students Canada is proud to be the Community Sponsor of the Lexpert Zenith Awards 2010, honouring Canadian law firms, in-house departments and law students who are committing their time, skills and mentorship to a diverse and valuable … Read More

• PBSC student volunteer Kathy Moulton wins Lexpert Platinum Award

  Kathy Moulton, a PBSC student volunteer from the University of New Brunswick, has been selected as the winner of a Lexpert Zenith Award. This year, the Zenith Awards are honouring firms, in-house departments and students who commit their time, skills … Read More

• U of T honours McCarthy’s lawyer Gordon Baird for PBSC work

  Gordon Baird, a partner at McCarthy Tétrault LLP in Toronto, has been selected as the winner of a University of Toronto Arbor Award for his ardent support of Pro Bono Students Canada. Mr. Baird, a U of T Law graduate, … Read More