Congratulations to Neha Chugh and Anne-Marie McElroy on publishing “A Labour of Love”!
This is one of the most unique and beautiful books about being a lawyer who is also a human being.
It is an amazing collection of essays about lawyers as caregivers and caregivers as lawyers.
I suspect every one of us in the profession will identify with the contributions here.
The book is reasonably priced and now available online for pre-order.
The essays are deeply personal, moving, loving. Justice Jill Presser asks in the foreword: If, as Dr. Cornel West wrote, “justice is what love looks like in public,” what does justice look like in private? What happens when the lines between justice and love, and private and public, are blurred because our lawyers are caregiving and our caregivers are lawyering?”
Several prominent members of Women In Canadian Criminal Defence have told their stories here. Neha and Anne-Marie, Hamna Anwar, Kyla Lee, Brenda Hollingsworth and I have contributed chapters.
I hope people buy the book and read these stories of resilience and humanity.
For me personally, writing my chapter for this book was more difficult than writing an entire book of law.
I tell some of my stories here that I’ve never told anywhere else or to anyone else and in doing so, made myself as vulnerable as imaginable.
It was well worth the journey tho and I am truly honoured to be included among these courageous authors.
It’s life-changing in its candour and vulnerability.
