In her introduction to the fundraising web page, she wrote that Julia was “young, beautiful, vivacious and full of life. GoFundMe page organizer Lisa S., who declined to give her last name, said she was too distraught to be interviewed about her friend. As I watch my defence colleagues leave one by one for Crown, clinic, and government jobs, I acknowledge the good and often thankless work we do every day … Stay safe friends.” Wrote another defender, Neha Chugh, who is based in eastern Ontario: “There is a war on criminal defence lawyers in Canada. “An absolute tragedy that has rocked the criminal defence community to its core,” commented defence lawyer Alison Craig on Twitter. I type still in disbelief and shock.” Zita encouraged others to contribute to a GoFundMe page. “I was fortunate enough to call her a close friend. Jules was the most beautiful light and soul,” defence lawyer Jessica Zita wrote on Twitter. News that an employee of a law firm had been fatally stabbed at work sent shock waves though Toronto’s legal community. She declined to say how the incident unfolded, nor would she confirm whether the man was represented by any of the firm’s lawyers. “The business, the law office, was targeted, but I can’t get into anything more specific than that, whether she was specifically targeted or anyone else,” homicide detective Sgt. His original attempted murder charge will be upgraded to second-degree murder, Toronto police said.

Osman Osman, 33, was arrested by police a short time later after surrendering himself at 51 Division. However, she succumbed to her injuries on Sunday. Michael’s Hospital, where doctors were at first cautiously optimistic. E., east of Sherbourne Street, and stabbed the young woman in the chest. On Friday afternoon, just before 2 p.m., a man walked into the firm’s storefront office at 238 King St. “She took on all kinds of different roles because they saw she was capable.” “She always had an interest in law and got into this profession to see how she’d like it, and she flourished,” her older brother, Chris Ferguson, said Monday. A decade after moving from her hometown of London, Ont., to Toronto to work, Julia Ferguson excelled in the beauty industry but wanted a career change.Ī couple of years ago she landed a job as a receptionist at Hicks Adams LLP, one of Toronto’s largest and best-known criminal defence firms, with a roster of more than a dozen lawyers.

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