GTA Wills Project

Project Type: Client services (court forms, shadowing, mock hearings, intake, legal clinic, etc.) 

Fields of Law: Wills & Estates 

Positions Available: 3

This is a joint project in which University of Toronto students may work with students from Osgoode Hall Law School (York University).

 

About:

The Wills Project’s goal is to provide legal services related to estate planning for low-income individuals, and to provide students with the opportunity to offer client services in the estate planning field.

 

Project Details:

The Wills Project is a longstanding PBSC project run in partnership between the PBSC chapters of the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School. The Wills Project’s goal is to provide legal services related to estate planning for low-income individuals, and to provide students with the opportunity to offer client services in the estate planning field. This project is run in partnership with Fogler Rubinoff LLP and various lawyers in Toronto.

PBSC Students are paired with lawyers specializing in Wills & Estates law to draft wills, powers of attorney for property and personal care, and reporting letters for low-income individuals.

 

Will the student(s) be expected to show up for regular shifts each week, or is the schedule flexible?

The schedule will be flexible as the bulk of the work that students will be doing will require their own editing, drafting and revising, in consultation with the supervising lawyer.

The only scheduled dates for the length of the project will occur when the student, client and lawyer meet for the ID verification, and when they meet at the end of the process to testate and witness the will.

 

Who can apply?

Only upper-year students are eligible to apply. 

Students are required to have completed or be concurrently enrolled in a Wills & Estates class.