Ontario law school fee almost doubles due to new training

By Andrew Foote. Fees required to become lawyer jump more than $2,000 after taxes, a 79 per cent increase.
Many Ontario law students say they've been caught off-guard by a large increase in fees they must pay as part of the process of becoming a lawyer. Common law students in Ontario must pay a series of fees to the Law Society of Upper Canada in order to get mandatory post-graduation training and write the bar exam. Based off last year's fee schedule, students who spoke to CBC News said they expected to pay slightly more than the approximately $2,600 graduating students paid in 2013. Instead, their bill came in at nearly $5,000, an increase one blogger calculated as 79 per cent. More...