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and at the National Judicial Institute’s Annual Civil Law Seminar. Krish’s
work was recently cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in C.M. Callow Inc.
v. Zollinger, 2020 SCC 45.
Matt Malone joins TRU Law after having practised labour and employment
law at Morrison Foerster in Silicon Valley. He is a member of the California
and New York bars. Matt represented and conducted investigations
for clients ranging from start-ups to the world’s largest companies in the
technology sector. He also counselled on human resources matters for companies
of diverse sizes and litigated employment disputes before federal
and state courts and agencies. During law school at McGill, Matt won the
Strosberg Essay Prize for a paper on class actions. Matt is currently a Ph.D.
candidate at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law and its Centre for
Law, Technology and Society. His academic work has appeared in both English
and French, and he has written pieces for CBC, the C.D. Howe Institute,
the Conference Board of Canada, Le Devoir, The Globe and Mail and others.
Matt supports various LGBTQ+ causes through pro bono legal services.
TRU LEGAL APP TEAM WINS FIRST PLACE IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
TRU Law offers a course titled Designing Legal Expert Systems, which is
taught by Dr. Katie Sykes. The course has students create apps that can help
people get the information they need, when they need it, in a user-friendly
way. In past years, students in the course have presented their work to the faculty,
students and community of TRU Law through the “Battle of the Apps”.
One team has taken their app battle one step further. In winter 2022, they
worked with Dr. Sykes on an independent project, building off their work in
the Designing Legal Expert Systems course. They created the “Gladue Submissions
Assistant”, a tool for facilitating the use of Gladue factors in sentencing
and bail. The TRU Law students entered their app into the Iron
Tech Law Invitational.
TRU Law’s team finished in first place. They took this prize over teams
from the United States, Singapore and Australia. Congratulations to the
team members: Nick Todd (3L), Darnel Tailfeathers (3L), Zack Halper-Johnson
(3L), Sean Macdonald (2L) and Hasleen Sanghera (2L).
MOOT COMPETITIONS
TRU Law students competed in nine moot competitions. This year’s B.C.
Law Schools’ Moot and the Kawaskimhon Moot were held in person, while
others were held online.
TRU Law students won awards this year for their work. Kelly Fortune
(3L) won “Top Opening Statement” at the MacIntyre Cup, which is a trial