Episode 5: The Debt Series Part 1

This episode marks the beginning of our series about law school debt. Throughout this series, we will be speaking with lawyers who have had a variety of diverse experiences with law school debt.

In this episode, we sit down with Karly Lyons. Karly is currently completing the lawyer licensing process in Ontario and is the co-founder and director of Legal Listening, a Canadian Law Blog Award (CLAWBIE) winning legal audio podcast. A peer of ours from Windsor Law, we have long admired Karly’s activism and advocacy on access to justice issues and structural problems within the legal profession and beyond. We discuss how Karly’s decision to go to law school as a mature student has impacted her experiences in the profession, the rising costs of real estate, how salary information in the legal profession is often clouded in secrecy, the de-regulation of law school tuition, and Karly’s collection of quarantine hobbies.

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Learn more about Legal Listening here:  https://www.legallistening.com/

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- Erin & Piper

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