The Vol. 12, Issue 2

Caveat Lector

The Caveat is BACK EditionFeaturing:

- 15 Schools, 1 Cup: The Law Games Tell-All- A Beginner’s Guide To The Library

& MUCH MORE!

Managing EditorsSean WatsonBrian Lunde

EditorsKeith BarronJulia KindrachukShea MooneyBrandi Rintoul

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The Caveat LectorVolume 12, Issue 2

It is an amusing thing when you’re in your last year of law school and studying for finals. While normal-ly anything else is interesting when you’re studying, in third year you find new ways to push the enve-lope. For example, I (Sean) found myself standing in line to get a flu shot in early December because they told me it would take 30 min-utes, and in my mind, it was 30 min-utes I wouldn’t have to study for.

As for Brian, one day during finals he thought about writing the most epic article about Law Games. Without a place to publish the article though it would have been a waste of time. While a lesser man may have been content with a few Facebook status updates as a forum for his thoughts, Brian further delayed reading through case briefs by wondering, out loud, “Where was the Caveat?”

Alas, when it was told that the pre-vious editors were too busy with other commitments, Sean vol-untold Brian, and ipso facto, the new Caveat editors were born.

This will be the first of two edi-tions of the Caveat for this semes-ter. We hope to have the other one out shortly after LSA elections, so you don’t experience the travesty Brian did of not being able to read the Caveat instead of studying. The focus of this issue will be on up-coming social events and what to you need to know about Legal Fol-lies. The next edition will be a year-end wrap up. But fear not, there will also be useful tidbits. Sneak peeks into the next edition will include an article for the 1 and 2L’s on use-ful classes to take in upper years, and for the 3Ls, the superlatives.

We hope you enjoy the Caveat, and special thanks to the return-ing editors who babied us along as we put together this edition: Keith Barron, Shea Mooney, Julia Kindrachuk and Brandi Rintoul.

Sean Watson & Brian Lunde

Barack & Paul’s Presidential Terms Coming To An End

My good friend Barack and I are entering out last terms as President. Our coveted of-fices (which we campaigned tirelessly for) have certainly taken a toll on us both emo-tionally and physically. We both came into our roles as well-rested, young, am-bitious leaders and will be leaving disheveled, heavier and ready for retirement.

However, there is still important work to be done before I leave you all and retire to my vacation resort at Villa McDougall Gauley on Broadway. For starters, the second semester of law school is full of (arguably) the best events of the year. Curling, Casino Night, Legal Follies, Soccer Cup, and Challenge Cup are all approaching quickly. These events are always incredible and very memorable.

The second semester is particularly important for all of you 1Ls and 2Ls. It’s RECRUIT-MENT SEASON! There will be numerous firm tours, receptions, showcases, and ap-plications coming your way. I hope that you all approach these events as a unique op-portunity and not as a chore, although I can certainty understand how stressful it is. If you ever have any concerns about recruitment please feel free to come talk to me.

Lastly, the LSA elections and Annual General Meeting will be held in March. If you are enthusiastic about the LSA please run! If you thought we did an aw-ful job and you want to make sure it never happens again… please run!

I am extremely excited to finish off this year with all of you! It has been amazing!

Paul Federoff

First, I want to personally thank Jon Ponath for organizing every-thing and the rest of the team for their effort and support through-out the games. This was my second law games and I had an absolute blast from start to fin-ish, with the Usask Team play-ing a gigantic role in that. For those who haven’t heard, Usask Law won the Sports Cup for the first time in the school’s histo-ry. I wish next year’s team the best of luck repeating this feat.

The following are the thoughts I chose (or was coherent enough) to document in the heat of the moment (and a couple of retro-spective reflections) from Jan-uary 3rd to 7th of 2016 during my time at law games, held in Sherbrooke, Quebec. I present them without further comment.

JANUARY 3, 2016• 10:25 AM - Got into Toron-to and met up with the crew from Saskatoon. Reunited with Amjad Murabit after an entire semester apart. Epic. • 2:02 PM - Loaded on the bus to Sherbrooke. No alcohol “allowed” on the bus. Morale has been higher. • 2:18 PM - Buffalo rules official-ly put into effect (Drinking with dominant hand results in hav-ing to chug the remainder of the drink in hand). Select group of heroes smuggled booze on bus increasing morale exponentially.

• 3:55 PM - After a stop to pee, our troupe loaded up with liquor at the gas station. I was promptly buffa-lo’d by the devious Tom Hall with an assist from Lindsay Knibbs.

• 5:53 PM - First official team meeting. Morale is high. Julian just got buffalo’d by Cam Brightman. Dominic Sikora just buffalo’d John Fast. Things are going well. Await-ing our fearless leader Jon Ponath to deliver his initial Any-Giv-en-Sunday-esque address.

• 7:36 PM - Delays plague the start of the pubcrawl; the bus-es are late. Frustration grows. Brian slips while piggyback-ing Steve Wang, jeopardizing a basketball championship. The boyz and girlz are on the bus. The chants have begun.

• 8:17 PM - Pubcrawl is off to a great start. Usask wins a 10 jug deep jug-off against U of M and some other insignifi-cant competitor (Montreal?). As if anyone else had a chance.

• 9:45 PM - Another bar, anoth-er challenge conquered. Led by Charles Reid and Tom Hall, our ten person boat race team placed first with Justine performing well in the women’s chugging event.

Reflection: Apparently we “tied” in the boat race event and Justine chugging was part of a tie-break-er. We ended up losing this event

because, in Sherbrooke at least, 51 seconds equals 50 seconds.

•10:38 PM - Just beat a team at 15 man flip cup. Manitoba “beat” us the next round. According to the DJ though that was a prac-tice round (Sherbrooke disor-ganization)? Real thing: Usask wins. Toba is pissed. Calls for a rubber match may be justi-fied. Usask has the official win on paper though. Close call.

JANUARY 4, 2016• 12:37 AM - Skipped the last bar on the pubcrawl in favour of pizza and poutine. Great decision. No ragrets. Cabbed back to the hotel. • 1:37 AM - Back at the ho-tel. Small get together in 806 (Paul Federoff and I’s room). Drinking games abound.

•7:33 AM - On the bus to the gymnasiums. Morale is rela-tively high. I’m not sure if I am still drunk or just tired. • 9:18 AM - Volleyball loss against U of T and a dodge-ball win against Laval.

The 2016 Law GamesExperienceBrian Lunde

I have no idea why I felt per-sonally obligated to try and

run Sherbrooke out of booze. This was an incredibly stupid

move.

• 4:12 PM - Flag football, ball hockey, and water polo are all undefeated. Dodgeball failed to make the playoffs. Volleyball finished first in their pool.

• 7:20 PM - Team meeting fin-ished. Open bar tonight. Pray-ing my liver has the strength.

• 8:58 PM - Sherbrooke’s theme is cowboys and Indians at the talent show party. Lots of people are jus-tifiably unhappy. Makes beer pong awkward when you are chucking ping pong balls next to people in headdresses and toy bow and arrows.

• 9:00 PM- Dalhousie males got na-ked, save for a pirate hat, onstage. No other team stands a chance.

• 9:04 PM - U of T calls out the el-ephant in the room (AKA blatant cultural appropriation) during their talent show act. Standing ovation from every school but Sherbrooke.

• 9:28 PM – Usask talent show per-formance was ridiculous. Tom killed it. Pony nailed it. Jared Dun-lop bounced a stage-rushing Sherbie (Student from Sherbrooke) violently off the stage. I bounced the same idiot off the stage two other times. If had to sum it up, acoustic Tom Hall punc-tuated with some drunken WWE.

• 9:48 PM - “You are racist” chant followed Sherbrooke’s talent show performance.

• 9:52 PM - People made out on-stage during a Grease rendi-tion by the University Montreal.

• 11:41 PM - Lady in wheel-chair gets quasi-crowd surfed.

JANUARY 5, 2016• 1:09 AM - Open bar went sur-prisingly well. They didn’t run out of booze which was incredi-bly impressive given the amounts being consumed. This will likely be my only praise of Sherbrooke.

• 2:30 AM - Some idiot challenged Charles Reid saying he could chug a beer faster than him. Unsurpris-ingly, Charles crushed him. A trac-tor chant erupted upon his victory.

• 7:22 AM - Death is my only so-lace as it will surely come for me now. My body is physically sore from sporting yesterday and al-ready exhausted thanks to three hours of sleep. Perhaps during our water polo game at 8:00 AM death will gently take me. Praying for enough lost souls to fill the roster.

• 10:49 AM - Morning was a blur. Rosters are short. People are miss-ing. Usask is winning though. Soccer and water polo at least.

• 2:18 PM - Western knocked Us-ask out in the water polo semi-fi-nals. Personal low point for morale.

JANUARY 6, 2016• 1:19 AM - Skipped the scheduled event at some bar and partied at the hotel. Made random friends at random schools. It was the best of times. U of T played slap cup with shots of gin. Mistakes were made.

• 2:45 AM - Talked a student from Sherbrooke out of light-ing a firework in a hotel room.

• 9:21 AM - Got to sleep in to-day. Body hurts. Might have strep. Ultimate Frisbee at 10.

• 12:19 PM - Won one/lost one in Ultimate Frisbee. Volleyball, hand-ball, and basketball are in the finals. Flag football lost in the semi’s with their QB, Andrew Bitz, injured.

• 4:06 PM - Usask has a bad day in the finals. Losses in volleyball, handball, and basketball. The lone bright-spot was a win in the soc-cer final and ruining Sherbrooke’s chances of winning law games. It’s a small but meaningful victory. • 8:08 PM - Formal banquet is off to a slow start due to technical difficul-ties. The wine is bad but free so things aren’t all bad. Also, an open bar is on the horizon so morale is high.

• 10:26 PM - Sherbrooke’s video sub-mission contains a clip of someone wearing a headdress playing beer pong. “You are racist” chant returns.

• 10:31 PM - Western’s video fea-tures them driving around in what I can only assume is their fa-ther’s BMW. Western, as a school, puts the douche in douchebag.

• 11:33 PM - Usask wins the Sports Cup. Pandemonium ensues. Every-thing becomes a chant. Voices are hoarse but morale has never been higher in the history of Usask law.

Reflection: The overall award went to Sherbrooke, which was made possible by them “winning” the Tal-ent Cup with a performance so un-remarkable, I didn’t bother to write anything about it. I feel like the word “talent” should be offended for being associated with that terrible school.

JANUARY 7, 2016• 12:15 AM - Sherbie just let me free pour my drink at their open bar. This drink may spell the end of my night. Only time will tell. ......... • 12:24 AM - This may be my last update be-cause I’m getting blacked. Open bar is a chal-lenge to empty it and I am up for it. #sansragrets

Reflection: I have no idea why I felt person-ally obligated to try and run Sherbrooke out of booze. This was an incredibly stupid move.

• 1:39 AM - Drunk. Tired. This is my last law games. Gonna giver shit. DJ plays the worst music. Hotel partaaaayyyyy???? Bri-an’s 3/4 of the way to Blackout Town. ...........

• 2:05 AM - I’m blacked. I will likelynot remember this tomorrow. ...........

Reflection: Accurate.

•10:01 AM - On the bus back to Montreal. Sad and happy that it’s over. My body says “no” but my mind.says “yes”.

Confessions of a 1LLindsey KnibbsComing into law school I had many questions: What will the classes be like? Will I enjoy them? How different is this going to be from undergrad? A few days into the semester, I realized I was ask-ing the wrong things and was faced with an entirely new host of questions: What does 1L even mean? What are CANS and where can I find them? Why does our student president look like a Greek god? And most importantly, what on earth is a jug? Throughout the first semester, most of these ques-tions have been answered. I’ve learned that the classes are a combination of incredibly interest-ing and TORTuously boring (that one was for you, prez). This is nothing like undergrad and no one is prepared. 1L simply means first year law students, who have yet to realize what we’ve signed up for. CANS are lifelines, and to find them, one must only be kind (supply coffee) to the upper years. Our president is a Greek god and

that’s why he looks like one. And lastly, a good jug is what will get us through law school alive. What I didn’t realize coming in was that I was en-tering the most collegial and friendly environment on campus. Before starting school people would tell me how intimidating law students are. However, they were misinformed. I have met some of the most amazing people in my time at the college and they only want to see one another succeed. I also never realized the amount of long-standing traditions our college stands on. From the Evil Fish to the first year exam scare, these milestones have transformed a group of strangers into a group of friends. So here’s to us 1L’s, the milestones that are yet to come, and to making the next two and a half years the best yet.

Board of LawJoel Sander

I started the U of S Board of Law at the start of the school year in 2015. I’ve always enjoyed board games, and being new in Saskatoon I thought this would be a great way to meet some fellow first years. I started with the idea that it would just be a Facebook group where people could post game nights they were hosting. However, I decided to ratify the group in order to host fund-raisers with the support of the USSU. I had a lot of help with ratifying from the found-ing members, in particular Jordan Crawford, Andrea Phillips, and Madison Walls. The point of the group is simple: host board game events at someone’s house. We play a number of games like Risk, Talisman, and Cards Against Humanity. We are also setting up a library system with the mon-ey we raise in order to purchase more games for the club. We try to meet as much as possible, and any-one is welcome to come attend these board game nights. The great thing about the Board of Law is our events are generally an inexpensive night where you can enjoy a beer or just come out and play.

We are always open to having more law students join our group and events. We don’t charge membership fees and attendance isn’t required. So come on out to one of our events and remember: floor rolls don’t count! You can check us out Facebook by searching U of S Board of Law or email me directly at joel.sandor@usask.ca.

10 Things You Should Know About Exchange In Europe

Ali, Amjad, Michelle & Vanessa1. Law school in Europe is an under-graduate level program so academics are, uh… somewhat less rigorous. You will also feel super old next to your teenage classmates.

2. Immigration documents are import-ant. Pay attention and fill out all the right forms – or risk being kicked out of the country.

3. Oktoberfest in Munich is an once-in-a-life-time, must do extravaganza. It has everything: fun outfits, fake cocaine, day drinking, and super de-licious chicken. Even better if you recruit your U of S friends to cross the Atlantic and attend!

4. An advantageous class schedule is KEY. Use all that extra time to travel as much as hu-manly possible. Book budget airlines, pack light, embrace awkward temporary living ar-rangements, and prepare to be churched-out.

5. Look into letters of permission! With a little extra application work, you

may be able to save tuition dollars.

6. Everything, and we mean everything, is cra-zy expensive in Europe. ($10 Starbucks?! Bleh...) The exchange rate may also dramatically change between the time you apply and when you leave. Budget accordingly.

7. Fun fact: you can’t ride a camel naked in Morocco.

8. Winter is an amazing time to visit Eu-rope! Lights, mulled wine, and Christmas mar-kets as far as the eye can see. You can also sleep in a glass igloo and meet Kate Bosworth.

9. Expect serious weight gain. The food is so delicious, but don’t order chicken wings. You have been warned. There is also no filter coffee anywhere!

10. Finally, don’t let Arran Fergu-son book your Airbnb. It will resemble some-thing straight out of a Tim Burton movie.

When Real Life Is Just Like TV.Sean Watson

Some of us came into law school hoping our life would be as exciting as T.V. shows like Suits or Boston Legal, but as anyone who has worked in a firm for a summer can attest to, this is not al-ways the case. Most of the time as a summer law student may be spent researching various areas of law (sometimes obscure, like The Line Fence Act), writing memos, and doing other jobs no one wants to do, like manual labour. However, rarely, you get to feel exactly like you’re in a T.V. show.

Take a Friday afternoon I had this past summer. It was 3:45 P.M., and every-one was getting ready to leave for the weekend (small firms end early). As I am pack-ing up, someone not named Harvey Specter passes by my office and says, “With me. Now.”

I throw on my suit jacket and fall in line behind him. He explains on the walk to his office that there is a major business deal that needs to be done and at another firm’s desk by 4:00 P.M. That gives us 15 minutes to have a cheque at the other firm’s reception desk. Within the next min-utes, a cheque for an obscene amount is printed, put in an envelope, and handed to him. It is now 3:50 P.M. in Regina on a Friday afternoon. Normally, we may be slightly ahead of rush-hour. But it is Friday, so rush hour starts earlier. The office we need to be at is downtown. We are not. Now in Regina, the speed limit in a school zone is 40 km/h. We were over that. But don’t wor-ry; we weren’t in a school zone. In fact, we hit that in the parking lot. We flew off the line at ev-ery green light, made some hard right turns, and in an effort to avoid a long line of cars waiting to turn, go down a back alley that has a sign with an arrow pointing the opposite way we are travelling.

Despite our best effort, it was 3:57 P.M. and we were still 5 blocks away. All that is in front of us is total gridlock. In a T.V. show, this is where there would be a running mon-tage with someone in a full suit and dress shoes sprinting down the sidewalk, their tie fly-ing over their shoulder and suit jacket billowing in the breeze… And that’s exactly what I did.

I can only imagine the spectacle I must have been at this time as I passed by people. While T.V. would have me running on rooftops, or sliding over a car’s hood while cross-ing the street during grid-lock, I’m just not that athletic.

I sprinted into the office building and had the stroke of luck of an elevator just arriving. I took a moment in the elevator to straighten up my tie and brush my hair back to try and look as much like Kingsman material as possible. Unfortunate-ly, I wasn’t Kingsman material to begin with, and my glow wasn’t helping.

With about 40 seconds to spare the envelope was accepted and stamped. All that was miss-ing was for the greenback boogie to escort me out of the office and back into the car.

• February 10 - 1:00 – 2:20 room 150 3L Info session, Law Society of Saskatchewan

• February 24 - 1:00 – 2:20 Room 150 Financial Health: Personal and Educational Financing for JD Stu-dents with Brian Lane CFA, CFP, MBA, Fi-nance Faculty, Edwards School of Business – coordinated by the College of Law Mental Health Committee• February 25 - MLT Reception for 2L students

• March 2, 16, 23 and 30 - 1:00 – 2:20 room 150 PD workshops– TBD

CAREER FAIR - MARCH 4 & 5• Tickets on sale in February. All 1L’s and 2L’s should consider attending this event. It is actually a fun event and should be very informative.

• Once we have more information – we will put it up on the website and students can look at the firm websites and as well the profiles of the reps that are attending.

From The Career Office...

You’re in law school. It’s fun, it’s excit-ing, and some times that’s hard to contain. Unfortunately, law school seems to have created a bit of a problem that in all the excitment, some may have forgotten about the quiet(er) zones of the building.

We have taken it upon ourselves to present an un-official list of general rules every person should try to abide by to make the building a slightly more relaxing place. And as the SCC has told you time and time again, this list is not exhaustive.

1. Don’t talk. If you must talk then keep it short. Keep it quiet. And maybe use Facebook chat for

your future conversations.

2. Lower your voice upon entering the library. Pause or turn down your conversation for the 30 seconds

it takes to walk through the library.

3. Don’t eat loudly. We all know how to chew with our mouths closed.

4. Don’t smell bad. Shower.

5. Be aware of the space you’re occupying. Don’t stick your chair out so far people can’t get past

you without immediately dropping 20 lbs.

6. Don’t play music loudly. We don’t want to hear that awful buzzing through your headphones.

7. Don’t stand weirdly close to other people while briefly conversing with your homie. It’s weird and

uncomfortable.

8. Don’t eat smelly foods. If you must bring your left over fish for lunch please eat it in the lobby.

9. Silence your phone. I don’t want to hear that stu-pid Samsung bird tweet every time your bae feels

the need to talk to you.

10. Don’t answer your phone in the library. Com-panion rule to No. 9. Grab that phone and run to

the nearest door.

Follow these simple rules and we will all be a little happier. Happy second (and for some, final) term!Sincerely, your tired and grouchy, but overall happy to be here, friends.

A Scholar’s Guide to Library EtiquetteShea Mooney & Laura Forseille

• All events are informational or networking and students do not bring a resume.

• The dress code is business formal (dark conserva-tive suits).

• While most of the firms that attend are the firms that participate in 2L coordinated recruitment, there are a few firms coming that might be interest-ed in meeting 3L’s seeking artiles. If they are inter-ested in meeting with you at the event it is often at a certain time and you may not need to attend the whole event and buy a ticket. You can send me an email and let me know.

• 3L’s who have summer jobs at firms that are at-tending – your firm may ask you to attend, if they do, they often register your name with me and you do not have to buy a ticket. If you are attending, let me know and I can check.

If you have any ideas about information sessions that they would like to attend or present at please let me know or if students feel they would like informa-

tion on a topic, contact Terri

3L’S• If you are seeking articles and are not on the ca-reer office 3L seeking list, send an email to terri.karpish@usask.ca , I send out job postings on the group email. Note, it is common for ½ of our third year class to be seeking articles. It is not late, now is actually a good time for you to do some outreach to firms.

• Whether or not you have secured articles - Be-come familiar with the process as to how to become and Student-at-law (SAL) in the province you have or hope to secure articles.

• For SK students - if you have or hope to secure articles in SK there is an info session on Feb 10 1:00 room 150 about the CPLED program and as well the SAL Application process with the Law Society of Saskatchewan. I have also asked two students who are presently articling to do a short presenta-

tion at this session. I recommend that you complete the SAL application in Feb/march and get it done before exams.

• Don’t forget to apply to graduate!

2L’S• Most coordinated articling recruitment will occur at the end of second year between second and third year. However you should check the job postings to ensure you do not miss anything, i.e. a clerk-ship or government posting. You can expect most deadlines to be the same as last year. When I get information I put it up on the recruitment tab un-der the respective province http://law.usask.ca/law-career-office/finding-work/saskatchewan-arti-cling--summer.php

• Small firms and rural marks – this is a huge mar-ket and more than ½ of our class usually secures articles in this market, however it can best be de-scribed as the wild west - most firms do not put up postings and it is useful if you do some outreach. treach and learn about the various markets the bet-ter. It is often easiest to outreach to a newer mem-ber of the legal community or our alum and ask them to give you some information about the lay of the land. Then you can outreach and try to set up meetings with more senior members. It will take on a life of its own and you can use the method that best suits you.

• There are some excellent summer job postings, but I would not be discouraged if you do not secure anything and suggest you look towards your long term goal of securing articles.

• Watch for an info session geared towards the sec-ond year class in March

• If you have not done so, please sign up for a career appointment outside of 280.

1L’S• Keep coming out to the PD workshops, info ses-sions and events.

THE CAVEAT WANTS YOU

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