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Jennifer Jackson <\/B>was one of 220 new lawyers called to the bar July 17 during a ceremony at Roy Thomson Hall, but the only one who didn't actually hear her name called, reported the Toronto Star <\/I>July 18. Jackson, n<\/FONT>ow a full-fledged lawyer who happens to be deaf, graduated from York\u2019s Osgoode Hall Law School last year and articled at Bereskin & Parr, a downtown law firm that specializes in patent and trademark law. Despite her status as one of only a handful of lawyers in North America who are deaf, Jackson said she despises \"being put on a pedestal\". \"What if I make a mistake and end up being a bad representative?\" she asked. Jackson said she can only be upfront about her strengths and weaknesses, but \"I want to say that a deaf person can do anything except hear. Just give us a chance.\" She will work through interpreters provided by the federal or provincial government when she appears before a court or tribunal.<\/P> Forty-something tops MBA program<\/P> Al Goss<\/B> wasn't sure how he'd make the transition when he went back to school in his late 30s. But he pulled it off, reported Oshawa\/Whitby\/Clarington\/Port Perry This Week<\/I> July 16. The 41-year-old Bowmanville man recently graduated from York's Schulich School of Business, winning the Graduate Business Council Gold Medal as graduating student with the highest grade-point-average in the Masters of Business Administration program. \"I guess I was not so dumb after all,\" said Goss, who quit his job as director of manufacturing at a printing company in Scarborough to pursue his educational dream. \"It was always on my list of things I wanted to do and I just never seemed to get around to it,\" he says. \"Life kept getting in the way of doing this \u2013 I had a mortgage, a job. But my wife said, if you really want to do it, go do it.\"<\/P><\/B> On air<\/P> York alumna Jennifer Jackson was one of 220 new lawyers called to the bar, but the only one who didn't actually hear her name called, said the Toronto Star...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"yfileauthor":[],"qualifier":[],"yfile-author":[],"tags-to-show":[],"workflow":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-york-in-the-media"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"\n
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