New Articling Student Hire, Tanner Blomme – Aug. 28 2020

Posted on August 29, 2020 by Anita Szigeti

After an exhaustive search, our firm welcomes Tanner Blomme (@blomme-tanner on twitter!) as our latest articling student. Tannner is very passionate about mental health law and wrote me a joke to present at his interview. Doesn’t get much better than that. Having said that, this year’s crop of students was beyond anything we have seen in caliber and the competition was extreme. We may add a second position as a result in the next few months. For now, Tanner got the gig and we are thrilled.

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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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