For years, the legal profession turned a blind eye to the reality that racialized lawyers experience challenges that are different than those of non-racialized licensees — but the prevalence of these unique hurdles has finally become an accepted fact, Toronto-area personal injury lawyer Darryl Singer writes in The Lawyer’s Daily.
Month: August 2017
THE LAWYER’S DAILY – Wellness: Crisis brewing over unique challenges facing racialized lawyers
Racialized lawyers are more likely to come from moderate or meagre socioeconomic circumstances; are more likely to struggle with the excessively high cost of law school tuition; and are more likely to start their careers in debt. In addition, according to the report, racialized lawyers, may find it more difficult to secure articling positions.
THE LAW TIMES – Lawyers blast suspensions as unfair
“As lawyers, we would never allow a court to do to our clients what the law society is doing to its own members. It just defies logic. That test is simply too easy,” says Darryl Singer, a lawyer who defends practitioners in discipline proceedings.