CAREER: LAWYER (info relevant to CANADA)

1. Select a careerthat has a legal component.
   1. Education requirements: Academic preparation including costs, duration and possible locations.
   2. Essential skills or work habits: Physical, mental and personal characteristics necessary to excel in the field. Please include additional qualifications, certifications or legal documentation necessary.
   3. Legal requirements to enter or stay in career: Criminal record check, no bankruptcy, of good moral character, licensing.
   4. Job duties or Responsibilities: Description of the career or occupation. Include the laws that govern your place of work. (e.g., "As a border security officer I would need to know theImmigration and Refugee Protection Actand theCustoms Actbecause...") Be sure to discuss the way in which your career impacts society. (e.g., "As a parole officer I would facilitate the reintegration of offenders back into the community. This is an important role because...")
   5. Available opportunities and Compensation Packages: Consider the employment market, the availability of jobs in your desired field. (e.g., There might be too many massage therapists on that market so finding a job might be challenging or you might work part time as opposed to full time as well as the salary range.)
   6. Step by step plan: How would you go about achieving the goal of attaining a job in this field? Begin with the application or training process.
   7. Challenges and Contemporary Issues: Outline the legal issues that are relevant to this field at the present. For example: technology and policing, environmental rights and game warden, human trafficking and border control. Consider the changes that have occurred in the field.
   8. Decision: Using the information you have collected, make a decision about whether this would be a career that you wish to pursue. Pleaseexplain your reasoning.
2. Please be sure todocument all of the sourcesyou used during your research.