Kathleen O’Brien is completing her final year of studies with the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. Her final exam is on April 17 and then she will officially graduate in May.
But in order to become a practicing lawyer, O’Brien must first complete an articling position, something she was set to start this summer. “I was in the last stages of a competition for a position and that position was just put on hold indefinitely because of everything that’s going on,” said O’Brien.
Like many other law students, she was counting on the job to cover her finances after school, so when the government introduced the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) for those affected by COVID-19, she looked into if she would qualify to hold her