An application for enrollment as an attorney was recently granted by the Law Society of British Columbia

From 2008 until 2011, Ms. Winn attended law school at Golden Gate University in San Francisco where she obtained a Juris Doctor degree in law. She then took the California State Bar exam but failed to pass it.

During her first year at law school, Ms. Winn failed to follow instructions regarding the entry of identifying information on her exam envelope label at the commencement of an examination and kept her materials out and continued writing on them after it was announced the examination was completed and students were instructed to stop working (the “Academic Misconduct Allegation”)…

In June, 2015, Ms. Winn completed an application to the Law Society to be enrolled in the Law Society Admission Program (the “Enrolment Application”) and sent it to the Law Society. The Enrolment Application included a statutory declaration made by Ms. Winn in which she solemnly declared that the information contained in the Enrolment Application was true, accurate and complete. In the Enrolment Application, Ms. Winn disclosed the Academic Misconduct Allegation. As a result of this disclosure, the Law Society requested additional information from Ms. Winn. After reviewing the Enrolment Application and the additional information that had been obtained, the Credentials Committee ordered that a hearing be held with respect to Ms. Winn’s application, and this Panel was constituted to conduct that hearing.