Have you ever questioned what it will be prefer to observe Canadian immigration regulation? On this interview, Canadian immigration lawyer Will Tao shares his journey reducing his enamel as a younger immigration lawyer in Canada. Whether or not you’re a younger lawyer attempting to determine your chosen space of observe, or an outdated timer seeking to reinvent your self, this Podcast could be the catalyst you might want to take into account diving into the loopy world of Canadian immigration regulation.
On this episode of the Canadian Immigration Podcast, I spoke with Will Tao who’s a younger immigration lawyer working towards with the regulation agency of Larlee Rosenberg in Vancouver, British Columbia. Usually, I carry on business leaders who share wonderful perception on numerous facets of the Canadian Immigration panorama. Nevertheless, on this episode I made a decision to carry on Will who’s one of the “up and coming” immigration attorneys in Canada, and undoubtedly somebody to be careful for sooner or later.
Will took a while to share with us some unbelievable perception into his expertise breaking into the sector of Canadian immigration regulation. He addressed a number of the challenges a younger lawyer might face in addition to what it actually takes to make it as a profitable immigration lawyer.
Will writes a superb weblog on immigration entitled: the “Vancouver Immigration Weblog” which could be very rapidly turning into an incredible useful resource for not solely younger aspiring immigration attorneys, however seasoned vets as nicely.
Will did a incredible job on this interview. Maintain an eye fixed out for him sooner or later as he’s positive to be one of many rising stars throughout the immigration bar in Canada.
Throughout my interview with Will, we talk about the next areas:
- The street to turning into an immigration lawyer
- Why select immigration regulation
- Challenges of being a younger immigration lawyer
- The worth of mentorship when beginning out
- The place Will see’s his observe going sooner or later
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CIP S1E26 – Will Tao – Life as a Younger Immigration Lawyer
Will Tao Canadian Immigration Lawyer, working towards with the nicely revered regulation agency of Larlee Rosenberg in Vancouver, BC.
We’re going to do issues a bit of bit totally different this podcast. The aim behind this podcast is to encourage different younger attorneys to think about the observe of immigration regulation.
In per conversations with Will, he informed me about an expertise he had talking with a widely known Bay Avenue lawyer earlier than he started trying to find summer time jobs and she or he pegged it at a 0% probability that he might do immigration earlier than 5 years name.
Will Tao is an Affiliate at Larlee Rosenberg and supplies authorized providers in all areas of Canadian immigration regulation.
Will focuses on advanced immigration and citizenship refusals, reconsideration requests, appeals, admissibility hearings/detention opinions, and judicial opinions of administrative selections. Will is regularly contacted by shoppers and their immigration representatives after their preliminary purposes are refused or a request for additional data has been obtained. Will has efficiently assisted his shoppers on a number of difficult, excessive profile circumstances involving employers and people alike.
May also has a robust worldwide pupil and momentary overseas employee observe, the place he advises college students and momentary staff on the compliance points and the essential transition to everlasting residence in Canada through Specific Entry and Provincial Nomination Packages. May also serves as a authorized advisor and advocate to Canadian households seeking to reunite through household sponsorship.
Total, Will believes in a client-focused method, one that enables the businesses and people he works with to current their case to Canadian immigration authorities with the wanted stability of honesty, simplicity, and creativity.
Previous to becoming a member of Larlee Rosenberg, Will studied Worldwide Relations and Historical past at UBC (with a deal with migration historical past) earlier than attending the College of Ottawa for regulation college. On the College of Ottawa, Will co-founded the College of Ottawa Enterprise Legislation Clinic, Canada’s first bilingual, bijural pro-bono enterprise regulation clinic. In his remaining 12 months of regulation college, Will spent a semester overseas in Chongqing and achieved Dean’s Honour Record in his remaining 12 months.
Will is proficient in Mandarin and enjoys sharing his experiences as a second-generation Chinese language-Canadian. In his spare time, Will enjoys mentoring younger attorneys and college students and writing and running a blog about immigration associated points. His regulation weblog, Vancouver Immigration Weblog (www.vancouverimmigrationblog.com ), was awarded a 2015 Clawbie for “Finest New Legislation Weblog” and is widely-consulted throughout the Canadian immigration authorized and coverage group. Will is a Board Member and Mentorship Chair with the Federation of Asian Canadian Attorneys, British Columbia and a Committee Member of the Metropolis of Vancouver’s Cultural Communities Advisory Committee.
1) Street to Being an Immigration Lawyer –
Q: How did you transition into turning into an immigration lawyer?
2) Why Immigration Legislation?
Q: What are the advantages and challenges particular to working towards immigration regulation?
Q: Are you anxious about pigeoning-holing your self as a younger practitioner?
3) Challenges of Being a Younger Lawyer –
Q: How can a younger lawyer keep aggressive and supply worth add within the immigration market?
Q: What kind of talent units does a younger lawyer practitioner want?
Q: How has being of an immigrant background impacted your observe?
4) Worth of Mentorship –
Q: why you will need to have a mentor when beginning out?
Q: What arenas are there to entry it?
Q: What recommendation do you need to senior practitioners seeking to mentor a younger immigration lawyer or retain immigration attorneys as associates?
5) The place you See Your Follow Going –
Q: What areas of immigration regulation are you notably captivated with and hope to develop shifting ahead?
Q: Do you might have just a few examples of notable circumstances you might have been concerned in?
Q: How can individuals attain you?
You may contact Will Tao through e-mail: Will.Tao@larlee.com
Will’s Bio: http://www.larlee.com/attorneys/will-tao/
Larlee Rosenberg, Barristers and Solicitors: www.larlee.com
Will’s Weblog –“Vancouver Immigration Weblog”: http://vancouverimmigrationblog.com/[/spoiler]
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