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At Beyond the A, we are dedicated to destigmatizing anxiety and empowering lawyers to thrive in their careers and beyond.
Vancouver | Calgary | Toronto
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At Beyond the A, we are dedicated to destigmatizing anxiety and empowering lawyers to thrive in their careers and beyond.
Vancouver | Calgary | Toronto
In this workshop, our speakers will share their own OCI experiences and how they overcome the countless rejections to arrive at where they are today. After this workshop, we also hope that we can provide students with a sense of hope, some takeaways and to foster resilience as they continue in their legal journey.
In Episode 13 of our podcast, Blake Gansborg shares his personal experiences with anxiety throughout his career, what has worked for him in overcoming it, and reflects on what the legal profession can do to de-stigmatize the topic of mental health.
In this episode, Sheri Wang talks about normalizing the topic of anxiety in the legal profession, the relative hurdles individuals may face in law school and beyond, and what has helped her to overcome anxiety.
Bar exams are a huge commitment, and to say they are stressful is an understatement. Not only due to the daunting fear of failure, but also because of the overall difficulty and required level of comprehension.
Amelia Neo is one of BtA’s student ambassadors. She is a 1L at Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law. She shares her experience starting 1L in person in the midst of the ongoing pandemic, and how she has managed the fall semester thus far.
In this episode, we sat down with Clinton Tang, a summer student at Alexander Holburn and a 3L student at Peter A. Allard School of Law.
In this episode, we talk about the stigma of anxiety in the legal profession, how he overcame anxiety in his own career, and how he carved out his own path after articling at a big law firm, and finding fulfillment within one’s career.