Here are some places to read, listen an learn about what I do and what we do at our firm, on the daily.
You GOT THIS FAR so just find the ones you don’t already know about.
THE BLOG: https://anitaszigeti.wordpress.com
THE PODCAST: https://robichaudlaw.ca/speaker/anita-szigeti-1/
THE OTHER PODCASThttps://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/why-people-are-getting-killed-by-cops-during-mental/id1462438248?i=1000479815322
THE OTHER BLOG: https://www.cowlinglegal.com/blog/women-leading-in-law-anita-szigeti
On Twitter at https://twitter.com/pouchbaby
On LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/anita-szigeti-mhlawyer/
I put this out there so that we never again get a job applicant who has no idea who we are. That’s inauspicious beginnings, for the uninitiated.
About Anita Szigeti
• Called to the Bar (1992)
• U of T Law grad (1990)
• Sole practitioner (33 years)
• Partner in small law firm (Hiltz Szigeti) 2002 - 2013
• Mom to two astonishing kids, Scarlett (20+) and Sebastian (20-)
• (Founding) Chair of Mental Health Legal Committee for ten years (1997 to 2007)
* Founding President of Law and Mental Disorder Association - LAMDA since 2017
* Founder and Secretary to Women in Canadian Criminal Defence - WiCCD - since 2022
• Counsel to clients with serious mental health issues before administrative tribunals and on appeals
• Former Chair, current member of LAO’s mental health law advisory committee
• Educator, lecturer, widely published author (including 5 text books on consent and capacity law, Canadian civil mental health law, the criminal law of mental disorder, a law school casebook and a massive Anthology on all things mental health and the law)
• Thirty+ years’ experience as counsel to almost exclusively legally aided clients
• Frequently appointed amicus curiae
• Fearless advocate
• Not entirely humourless
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