The Lawyers Weekly - July 6, 2012

THE LAWYERS WEEKLY
July 6, 2012 | 23

BUSINESS
CAREERS

With a father, a sister, three uncles, an aunt and a cousin as lawyers, Patrick Brown acknowledges he pursued the legal profession by “osmosis.” But getting there wasn’t exactly easy.

A University of Toronto political science undergraduate, the future Conservative Ontario MP entered law school at the age of 22 while he was also serving in his first term as a city councillor in Barrie, Ont.

Following a Monday evening city council meeting, he would fly to Windsor, Ont., on Tuesday morning and spend the day and Wednesday in classes. On Wednesday night, he would return to Barrie, Ont., to attend the other weekly council meeting on Thursday evening.

“The only downside was that
everybody else would take a broad
selection of courses whereas I had
no choices,” Brown, 33, says with
a laugh. “I only could take courses
based on what was available on
Tuesdays and Wednesdays.”
As a result, he studied subjects
that he wouldn’t have otherwise
chosen, such as international law
of the sea and law and develop-
ment of Kashmir, which has
proved helpful in his current role
as chairman of the Canada-India
Parliamentary Association.

Patrick Brown
Law school:
University of Windsor
Called to the Bar:
2005
Career highlights:
1998-2002 Served
two terms as president of
the Progressive Conservative
Youth Federation
2000 Elected city
councillor for Barrie, Ont.;
re-elected in 2003
2006 Elected to the House
of Commons as Member of
Parliament for Barrie; re-
elected in 2008 and 2011
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