Life skills and career tips for Canada's lawyers in training
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two years, and fi rm represen- tatives immediately agreed. "Absolutely, from Gowlings' point of view, we just want him to do the very best that he can with respect to his en- deavours to get on the Olym- pic team or to just take his rowing as far as he can," says Anne Mundy-Markell, Gowl- ings' director of student and associate aff airs. "We have ev- ery expectation that Morgan will go right to the top. He was a fabulous student, hard- working in every way, and we expect he will take those same qualities forward in his work on the rowing team." Gowlings always encour- aged Jarvis to keep up with law as well, providing a men- tor in John D. Harris, anoth- er Ottawa partner, who like Jarvis was a member of the national rowing team. Th e two touch base every few weeks and speak both about law and rowing. "He's a very good young lawyer, so we are very happy to have him article with Gowlings when he is fi nished with his Olympic aspi- rations," says Harris. "He wants to keep up with his knowl- edge and kind of build on his skills while he is pursuing his rowing, because he very much realizes that it is a sabbatical from the practice of law that he is taking. He has got that clearly in his mind. He's got a good balance." In fact, law and rowing go hand in hand for a lot of law- yers and law students. One of Jarvis' closest teammates, Tim Myers, just fi nished his second year of law school at the University of Western Ontario. "Th e thing I keep see- ing is that the kind of people that row are very similar to the kind of people that excel at law school, and the two complement each other wonderfully," says Myers. "I met Morgan in the fall and we've been rowing together quite a bit, and I guess it is an unspoken bond. I think we both appreciate how committed we are to both rowing and [law] school, because it is a very heavy load to train like we do while we are at school and expect to be able to com- pete. We both know what we have had to do to be rowers at this level." In the end, being on a team in rowing and a law fi rm are similar, says Jarvis. "You deal with the top people in their fi elds. And each of them push themselves as far as they can to achieve not only their personal goals, but also the team's goals." ■ C ANADIAN Lawyer 4STUDENTS hildview_4st_Sep_10.indd 1 F ALL 2010 33 7/19/10 4:13:30 PM Morgan Jarvis, front, with fellow rowing team members Mike Lewis, centre, and Tim Myers. KEVIN LIGHT