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Last week, three members of our team spent the day doing something we genuinely look forward to each year — talking with Windsor Law students about what it’s actually like to practice personal injury law.
Partner Heather de Jong, Senior Associate Jaclyn Habas, and Associate Irina Rosca represented our firm at Windsor Law’s Career Day on March 4 at Caesars Windsor. For those unfamiliar with the event, it’s the Faculty of Law’s largest annual networking gathering, bringing together over 80 legal employers and students from all three years of the JD programme.
Beyond the Brochures
Career Day isn’t about handing out business cards or pitching our firm. It’s about having real conversations with students who are trying to figure out what they actually want to do with their law degrees.
At events like these, students typically come with questions about litigation practice — what courtroom work actually involves, how you balance trial preparation with client relationships, what it’s like building a practice in a mid-sized city rather than heading to Toronto. And of course, many want to know about articling opportunities and what firms look for when hiring.
What makes these events valuable, both for us and hopefully the students, is the chance to move past the sanitised version of legal practice and talk honestly about what the work involves, what makes it rewarding, and what makes it difficult.
Why This Matters to Us
Our firm has deep roots at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law. All three lawyers who attended the event— Heather, Jaclyn, and Irina — are Windsor Law graduates themselves. We’ve taught there, we’ve hired from there, and we understand what these students are navigating because many of us sat in those same classrooms asking the same questions.
But beyond institutional loyalty, there’s something else at play. The students we meet at Career Day aren’t just future lawyers — they’re future colleagues who will shape how legal services are delivered in this community. The quality of legal representation Windsor-Essex families receive ten years from now depends partly on whether today’s law students get thoughtful guidance as they’re choosing their legal career paths.
That’s not recruitment talk. It’s just reality. And it’s why we show up year after year.
To the Students We Met
If you stopped to speak with a member of our team at this event, thanks for the conversation! Whether you’re interested in personal injury law or headed in a completely different direction, we hope you found something useful in what we shared.
And to Windsor Law’s Career Services Office — thank you for organising an event that gives students genuine access to the legal community. These connections matter more than most people realise.
