The Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society is offering Indigenous and Black high schoolers a week-long opportunity to learn about law through a new internship program. Participants in the Inspiring Future Indigenous Black & Mi’kmaq Lawyers Internship Pathways program will gain hands-on experience and meet lawyers and judges working in traditional and non-traditional roles. They will earn half a credit towards their high school diploma upon completing the experience. “The fact that this program is available to high school students and putting that career opportunity to them at a younger age, I think, is going to be huge,” said internship project co-ordinator and Crown attorney Marissa Prosper (Pictou Landing First Nation). The internship is a pilot project that takes place over the week of March break and is funded by the Law Foundation of Nova Scotia.
