When 12 Feb 2021   1:15 PM – 2:15 PM Location Webinar

Thanks to my good friend Cass DMelo, I am starting off my new role as Women’s Director of the CLA as the first featured speaker in a Women’s Committee “Ask Me Anything” series on February 12 at 1:15 pm.

Here is the Registration link: https://members.criminallawyers.ca/event-4076521

This is going to be SO MUCH FUN!!

And here is the Text of the Announcement –

The CLA Women’s Committee is proud to present the first of several interactive conversations that highlight fantastic female lawyers and provides an opportunity for you to learn from their experience.About Anita Szigeti:

LEADER: President of Law and Mental Disorder Association (LAMDA.) Board Member of the National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy (NARPA), Board Member, Pilot Place, Former CLA Toronto Director, Former Chair, current member of CLA’s Mental Disorder Committee, former Chair of Mental Health Legal Committee (MHLC) and Legal Aid’s Mental Health Policy Advisory Committee.

ADVOCATE: Mental Health Lawyer. Litigating before tribunals, in Appellate Courts, at Coroner’s Inquests, All Day Every Day.

EXPERIENCE: 28 years.

TEACHER: U of T Law Faculty – Trial Advocacy, Forensic Psychiatric Resident training. Educates Lawyers, Doctors, Judges, Coroners, Families, Clients, Everybody.

CO-AUTHOR: Three Books. Guide to Consent and Capacity Law in Ontario, Halsbury’s Mental Health Law, and a Guide to Mental Disorder in Criminal Justice Matters new in 2020.

MOTHER: Argues endlessly with two teenagers.

DRINKS: Pour-over coffee and oat-milk cappuccino, each made lovingly at home.

GOALS: Liberate detained clients!!

MOTTO: “I never dreamed I’d grow up to be a super-cute lawyer-mom but here I am killing it.” (favourite coffee mug)

OPEN TO CLA MEMBERS –

FREE OF CHARGE members.criminallawyers.ca Criminal Lawyers’ Association –

https://members.criminallawyers.ca/event-4076521

ASK ME ANYTHING SPEAKER SERIES: FEATURING ANITA SZIGETI