12 F A L L 2 0 1 5 C A N A D I A N L a w y e r 4 S T U D E N T S
BY JENNIFER BROWN
LIAN
SHARP
LPP
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After so much
pilot program
Joshua D'Cunha feels pretty pumped about
landing a full-time job at Infrastructure
Ontario as legal counsel. e University of
Windsor Faculty of Law grad found his way
to the legal department of 32 lawyers this
past spring a er completing Ryerson Univer-
sity's inaugural Law Practice Program — the
fi rst cohort to come through the Law Society
of Upper Canada's three-year pilot project
aimed at providing an alternative route to tra-
ditional articling. "I really love the work, it's
fabulous," says an enthusiastic D'Cunha, who
is now legal counsel, contract management at
IO, an agency of the Ontario government.
e job meshes together two of his pas-
sions: law and public policy. Prior to law
school, he was a research assistant at York
University's School of Public Policy and Ad-
ministration. When he was looking for an
articling placement as law school was end-
ing, he found an opportunity similar to a
summer position he' d had at a small Missis-
sauga, Ont., law fi rm doing insolvency, fore-
closures, and bankruptcy matters — but he
realized he wanted to do something diff erent
with a broader experience, so he looked at
the eight-month LPP, which includes a four-
month work placement.
Anne
