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Jean Cumming
Editor-in-Chief
EDITORIAL
Back to the Future
FOR ANYONE WHO SPENT or spends considerable time in academic pursuits, which in-
cludes virtually all lawyers, September is as much of a marker of a new year as is January.
Lawyers take particular interest this time of year in their CLE and other educational op-
tions. is may be in part because they know the annual compulsory education deadline
looms, but it is more generally an opportune moment to consider career and personal sat-
isfaction. Would a course help you evaluate that? Even turn things around if the answer to
that question is that you are not satisfied. It oen does.
is will sound rather self-serving. Aer all, Lexpert offers courses (see cpdcentre.ca/lex-
pert/) that qualify for CPD credit. ey are taught by excellent practitioners. So too, how-
ever, there are other course providers, including the law schools, whose programs definitely
provide opportunity for reflection and future planning in addition to core CLE. Osgoode
Professional Development, for example, has a "try it out" option in its Professional LLM
Program — take one course without committing to the entire LLM. See if you like it. If not,
at least you learned something new.
Virtually all lawyers (except perhaps for those retiring imminently) are trying to decipher
the future of the profession. As you face the advent of Artificial Intelligence (see p. 50) or
any other incoming change factor, broadening one's "legal" education can only help you
plan for the future and allay a certain level of anxiety about it.
fortuna favet fortibus
SEPTEMBER 2017
VOLUME 18 NO. 8
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Jean Cumming
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