{"id":6893,"date":"2020-12-01T15:03:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T15:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.niagaralaw.ca\/?p=6893"},"modified":"2023-04-11T15:42:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T15:42:29","slug":"welcome-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/welcome-david\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the firm, David!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.niagaralaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201112_134034-950x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6894\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>David\nButler has joined our firm as an articling student.&nbsp; Welcome to the firm, David!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former\nSupreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said \u201cif you\u2019re going to be a lawyer\n&amp; just practice your profession, you have a skill\u2014very much like a plumber.\nBut if you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside\nyourself, something that makes life\u2026better for people less fortunate\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an\narticling student, I plan to continue to learn and achieve greater heights that\nI can be proud of, that my family can be proud of and that Daniel &amp;\nPartners LLP can be proud of. During the upcoming months, I will endeavor to\nmake every moment count as I plan for my future legal career.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a\nrecent Master of Laws graduate from Cardozo School of Law in New York City\nwhere I received the Dean\u2019s Merit Scholarship. My area of concentration was in\nmedia &amp; entertainment law. In October I sat for the NY Bar\nexam.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My\nacademic background includes a Bachelor of Laws (LLB Hons) from the University\nof Kent in England where I achieved First-Class Honors. Subsequently, I\nobtained a Certificate of Qualification from The National Committee on\nAccreditation of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. I also graduated\nfrom McGill University with a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) and a Master of\nBusiness, Entrepreneurship &amp; Technology from the University of Waterloo. I\nwas the recipient of the Jeff Mills Memorial Cup, an award recognizing\noutstanding academics, athletics, leadership, and community involvement. I am fluent\nin French and English. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to\nentering law school, I successfully led start-ups from concept to financing to\nexistence to survival to growth to success. I was featured in PROFIT magazine\nfor launching an innovative, environmentally friendly Quebec-based start-up. I\nalso played professional hockey in North America and Germany.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today,\nin my spare time, my favourite activities include attending performances at the\nShaw Festival (pre-covid) and playing sponge puck hockey for Team Yellow in\nNiagara on the Lake\u2019s shinny league where our team remains undefeated for more\nthan a decade.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David\nButler, BA, MBET, LLB, LLM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Butler has joined our firm as an articling student.&nbsp; Welcome to the firm, David! &#8212; Former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said \u201cif you\u2019re going to be a lawyer &amp; just practice your profession, you have a skill\u2014very much like a plumber. But if you want to be a true professional, you will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[145,146,41],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8265,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893\/revisions\/8265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}