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Medal in Law recipient Jeremy Butt, Law’16, with father David Butt, Law’86, outside Grant Hall at Convocation on June 3. (Photo by Greg Black)

Dual clerkships a family affair for Queen’s Law graduates

June 13, 2016
When Jeremy Butt, Law’16, begins 24 months of clerkship in the fall, he’s not only embarking on a rare opportunity for law grads – he’s part of a family tradition. Jeremy will first clerk at the Ontario Court of Appeal (OCA), and then next September he will move to the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC), where he will work with Justice Michael Moldaver. He’s starting his career with the same two clerkships as his father, David Butt, Law’86 – but Jeremy intends to make his own mark on the courts.
Morgan Jarvis, Law’10, interim director of the Queen’s Business Law Clinic

Queen’s Business Law Clinic collaborates with InnovationXL partners – and a generation of entrepreneurs

June 6, 2016
For innovators operating in the Kingston area, legal help is now easier to access than ever. A new collaboration between the Queen’s Business Law Clinic (QBLC) in downtown Kingston and InnovationXL partners located at Innovation Park has Kingston entrepreneurs buzzing – and, with any luck, will have students working at the law clinic hopping as well.
Harry McMurtry, Law’89 (second from left), and Sue Thompson (left) have met a lot of supporters as they walk from New York City to Toronto. (Supplied Photo)

Walking 500 miles to fight Parkinson's

June 3, 2016
Harry McMurtry, Law’89 (Artsci’85), a former Queen’s varsity basketball player, is now putting up a big fight against the illness he suffers from – Parkinson’s disease. With fellow Queen’s grad Sue Thompson (Artsci’87, MA’89) and Dr. Ross Sugar of Baltimore he is taking part in 500 Miles For Parkinson’s. It’s a fundraising walk from New York City to Toronto that started on May 7 and sees the trio travel up to 15 miles a day for 45 days with the goal of raising $500,000.
Corry Award winner Leslie O’Donoghue, Law’88, and fellow grads reconnect at the Queen’s Law reception in Calgary on May 2.

Queen's Law Albertans have lots to celebrate

May 26, 2016
“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who went to Queen’s Law and those who wish they could go.” That’s how Blair Yorke-Slader, Law’82, Vice-Chair and partner at Bennett Jones LLP, summed up the sentiment expressed by a crowd of Queen’s Law alumni, students and friends who gathered in his firm’s Calgary office for the school’s annual cocktail reception.