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Interview with the editors
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C: Problem.
T: I can read, I just don’t enjoy it.
C: Key skill for next Editor-in-Chief: literate.
K: That would help. So are you guys daunted by the
prospect of reading those five thousand pages in
preparation for the bar?
C: Travis and I both have such different law school
styles. I’m the type of person that has to know and
read everything…
T: And I haven’t read anything past a headnote since
first year. All of law school has been a chance for me
to game the exam system.
C: But there are just so many ways of approaching
law school. If by the end of this you find out you
don’t like the law – some of us do, some don’t – how
do you manage that?
K: That’s the thing. So many people have this idea of
what law school is like. I know I did. And I got here
and realized it isn’t like that at all. I think it took me
a long time to accept that.
T: Ok, this is on point and I really need to share
this anecdote with the Osgoode student body. There
is a true intellectual giant here at Osgoode, who I
think has gotten to the center of everyone’s reason
for coming to law school, and his name is Waleed. A
couple of weeks ago I was judging the Osgoode Cup.
Someone was chatting with him and he asked them
why they came to law school and they responded
that they loved the law. And Waleed said: “No, you
like the law – you love The Good Wife.” And I just
went, “Oh my god. Yeah.” Matter of fact, last semester I binge watched The Good Wife instead of studying for exams.
K: I’ve become basically the world champion of binge
watching TV since I came to law school.
T: No, put it in.
C: I feel like the mob wives are the most badass.
T: You know, there’s a whole show about that too.
C: Yeah, it’s called Mob Wives.
T: I was thinking of The Sopranos.
K: There’s clearly a divide here. Different calibers of
TV watching.
C: Let’s give Travis a housewife identity. First we
have to decide which city.
K: I feel like he’s probably –
K & C (in perfect unison): New York.
T: You have to explain yourselves!
K: They’re very high strung.
T: You could have chosen a better characteristic than
that, if you had to sell to me why I’m a New York
housewife….
C: They are the most high-brow. They really are
cultured.
K: So which New York housewife is he?
C: LuAnn. She was married to a Count. She’s got a
level of international class.
K: Worldly without being obnoxious.
C: I mean, a little obnoxious.
T: Thanks.
K: We’re all a little obnoxious. I like that we’re all
psychoanalyzing each other.
C: This is part of the Obiter editorial board; it’s part
of the creative process.
K: It’s totally part of the creative process. Ok, next
question. What’s your favourite law school memory?
T: I’ve destroyed all of those, with beer.
C: So much TV.
C: Tom Johnson. In general.
K: While we’re on the topic, which Real Housewife
are you most like, and why?
K: I could’ve guessed those. If you were going into
law school now, what would you have done differently?
C: I wanna be Lisa! She runs her own business. And
she wears so much pink. She drives her own car.
She’s the only housewife that still drives. But really,
I’d like to be a mob wife. Don’t put that in.
T: I would’ve written my first year exams a little
better. I would also have worried a lot less about my
first year exams.
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C: I would’ve held on to some more direction. I got
really caught up in the idea of being a law student
and what you’re supposed to do without any real
introspection or respect for what I wanted to do. If
I had more direction, I might’ve been in a different
space. And the thing is that at the end of it, you are
in a good space, no matter what.
K: Minus the articling crisis.
T: What crisis?
C: We get it, London.
T: Look, all I’m saying is that if you have a C average and you don’t wanna leave Toronto, then yeah,
there’s a crisis. But if you’re flexible in where your
law career takes you, then you’ll be fine.
C: And if you do that, you get a whole different
understanding of work-life balance. Like you probably won’t be in the office on a Sunday.
T: You can do that? I don’t know how to get into my
office on a Sunday.
K: What was your most awkward interview experience?
T: The firm I am articling at, I interviewed with
in first year, and I wasn’t hired. And when I came
back to interview in second year, the lawyer said he
remembered me from last year and had no questions
for me. I work there now, so he was obviously messing with me. But it was awkward.
C: It’s a good lesson. Every single year you better
add something to your experience. In a world where
everyone’s always getting better, getting better is
your job. Being good is never good enough. Not in
Toronto, and definitely not downtown.