{"id":15695,"date":"2010-10-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiledev.uit.yorku.ca\/2010\/10\/22\/osgoode-mentor-program-helps-guide-law-students\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T15:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T19:07:35","slug":"osgoode-mentor-program-helps-guide-law-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2010\/10\/22\/osgoode-mentor-program-helps-guide-law-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Osgoode Mentor Program helps guide law students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second-year Osgoode <em>Juris Doctor<\/em> (JD) student John Cintosun was not in the Osgoode Hall Law School\u2019s Mentor Program last year, but he wishes he had been.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI think it would have been really helpful,\u201d said Cintosun, who signed up this year to be an upper-year mentor to a first-year student. \u201cI could have benefited from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cintosun met his mentee, entering student Andrew Boyd, for the first time in person on Wednesday, Sept. 29 at the 2010 Osgoode Mentor Program Kick-Off held at The Underground Restaurant in the Student Centre on York\u2019s Keele campus. Prior to that first meeting, the two had exchanged e-mail messages.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" summary=\"\" width=\"200\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"8\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20101020\/\/mentor1_yfile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"255\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Above: From left, Andrew Boyd, John Cintosun, Harkiran Bains and\u00a0Sanja Sopic<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u201dIt\u2019s great to have someone to bounce ideas off about how to handle the academic demands of first year and know where to invest your time in extracurricular [activities],\u201d said Boyd, who\u00a0earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Waterloo\u00a0before\u00a0coming to Osgoode. He was seated next to Cintosun at a round table at the kick-off event, which was hosted by Osgoode Dean Lorne Sossin and included a warm welcome from alumni mentor Antonio Di Domenico (JD \u201905) and a fun-filled trivia game.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 166 first-year students have been matched with 144 upper-year students in the 2010 mentor program, which is run out of the law school\u2019s advancement office by Jessie Gill, mentor program coordinator and JD student. In addition, a large number of upper-year students are teamed up with\u00a0alumni mentors \u2013 95 in all \u2013 who are providing advice and guidance on legal education and practice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe are grateful to the upper-year mentors as well as the alumni mentors for their time and efforts,\u201d said Advancement Director Anita Herrmann. \u201cThe Mentor Program continues to be an outstanding example of how members of the Osgoode community come together to help one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Second-year JD student Harkiran Bains, who was mentored last year and is a mentor herself this year for first-year student Sanja Sopic, agrees that the Mentor Program is an invaluable source of support. \u201cIt helps to talk to someone who has gone through it,\u201d Bains said.<\/p>\n<p>The Mentor Program was founded more than a dozen years ago by Andrew Evangelista (JD '92) of Evangelista Barristers &amp; Solicitors, who served as the program\u2019s chair for eight years. 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