One wonders if the staff at the court house plays the soundtrack to Law and Order in the hallways at 100 Market Place when Julia Herzog heads to the office.
Prince Rupert’s newest crown attorney hails from the land of McCoy, Briscoe, Van Buren et al, and recently took up duties as part of the Crown counsel office at the court house.
On Monday, the Daily News featured an interesting biography of the latest lawyer to move to town. Included in the thumbnail CV, were details of her background as a librarian, which probably is as good a training ground for an attorney, considering the volumes of material required to be read, before moving through the justice system.
Prince Rupert’s newest crown attorney hails from the land of McCoy, Briscoe, Van Buren et al, and recently took up duties as part of the Crown counsel office at the court house.
On Monday, the Daily News featured an interesting biography of the latest lawyer to move to town. Included in the thumbnail CV, were details of her background as a librarian, which probably is as good a training ground for an attorney, considering the volumes of material required to be read, before moving through the justice system.
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It could make for perhaps the first Crown counsel to not only look to throw the book at an offender, but also be able to read and catalogue it as well.
CROWN’S NEWEST LAWYER RELISHING CHALLENGE
By Kris Schumacher
The Daily News
Monday, July 16, 2007
Pages one and three
Born in Brooklyn and raised in New York City, Julia Herzog is not your average Prince Rupert resident.
She moved to Prince Rupert in May with her husband, Howard, and two of her children, and she is the newest member of the Crown counsel’s team of lawyers.
After high school in New York State, Herzog went to Cornell University where she majored in Japanese language studies.
“At the time, I became fairly proficient, but you become rusty quite fast,” she said modestly from her office in the courthouse basement.
“After that, I then got a Master (degree) in Library Information Science, and worked as a librarian for many years. My husband’s work took us moving every couple of years, so I worked part-time in libraries. But I finally decided on law school fairly recently,”
A relatively new lawyer, she studied at Osgood Hall Law School in Toronto, where she began her long path of learning about First Nations people. Through an intense program studying both Canadian and international aboriginal law, Herzog learned a great deal, which continued on with her later work in Ottawa, Ontario. After articling for a judge in the Federal Court of Canada, she began her career as a Crown attorney.
“Then, I moved to a federal government position in intellectual property policy, and it was very interesting because it involved a lot of research and writing,” she said. “I worked on issues concerning intellectual property and Aboriginal peoples. There was an international meeting of the United Nations where I was part of a group of representing Canada on the issues of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions.”
Herzog explains that there area lot of issues concerning Western intellectual property law being imposed against concepts of Aboriginal traditional concepts of Aboriginal traditional knowledge, which she finds to be a very interesting field of Canadian and international law.
“There’s a lot of disconnect and concern internationally, but it’s a really complicated thing,” Herzog said.
“I think one of the issues in the area I was working looking at was the difficulty of defining terms in copyright, and trying to articulate how concepts of traditional knowledge could be connected to intellectual property laws. But I think it was a very interesting experience going to Geneva and Norway, representing Canada on those issues.
While Herzog thoroughly enjoyed the work she was doing with Industry Canada and the federal government working on copyright law and with Aboriginal people, she realized her calling was in Canadian courtrooms.
“Ultimately, I decided that my career was best kept in Crown work” she said. “And I’ve been so busy with the Crown work, I’ve kind of had to leave that stuff behind me. It was all really interesting, but I haven’t had to time to keep up with it because it’s so complicated.
However, before focusing full-time on her trial and courtroom career, Herzog was able to participate in another educational experience involving Canada’s Aboriginal population.
“I was able to do some interesting work in Iqaluit, Nunavut, where I did some workshops that the government provides to two Aboriginal groups as an educational service,” she said. “So I provided some presentations on patent law and trademark law to Nunavut representatives who are concerned with traditional knowledge, and it was very interesting. They’re wonderful people and they had some really good questions.”
Now the newest Crown counsel in Prince Rupert, Herzog has been hard at work learning once again, as even the most basic of charges can mean a complicated process for prosecuting lawyers.
“You have to walk before you can run, so I don’t have experience with major crimes,” she said. “It’s very interesting and very complicated, and I’d say it’s a very steep learning curve to becoming a Crown Prosecutor. It’s not like on television. We have to step through everything very carefully and as a careful person, I try to be methodical and present everything as clearly as I can. It’s all quite meaningful and there’s never a dull moment.”
Herzog and her family are very excited about their new home in Prince Rupert, as they are all lovers of the outdoors and have already been busy kayaking and finding all the best hiking trails.
Herzog’s husband, Howard, has been working as a fill-in high school teacher since they arrived in may, and this summer is tackling the job of renovating their new home. The Herzogs also have four children, aging from three to 22.
CROWN’S NEWEST LAWYER RELISHING CHALLENGE
By Kris Schumacher
The Daily News
Monday, July 16, 2007
Pages one and three
Born in Brooklyn and raised in New York City, Julia Herzog is not your average Prince Rupert resident.
She moved to Prince Rupert in May with her husband, Howard, and two of her children, and she is the newest member of the Crown counsel’s team of lawyers.
After high school in New York State, Herzog went to Cornell University where she majored in Japanese language studies.
“At the time, I became fairly proficient, but you become rusty quite fast,” she said modestly from her office in the courthouse basement.
“After that, I then got a Master (degree) in Library Information Science, and worked as a librarian for many years. My husband’s work took us moving every couple of years, so I worked part-time in libraries. But I finally decided on law school fairly recently,”
A relatively new lawyer, she studied at Osgood Hall Law School in Toronto, where she began her long path of learning about First Nations people. Through an intense program studying both Canadian and international aboriginal law, Herzog learned a great deal, which continued on with her later work in Ottawa, Ontario. After articling for a judge in the Federal Court of Canada, she began her career as a Crown attorney.
“Then, I moved to a federal government position in intellectual property policy, and it was very interesting because it involved a lot of research and writing,” she said. “I worked on issues concerning intellectual property and Aboriginal peoples. There was an international meeting of the United Nations where I was part of a group of representing Canada on the issues of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions.”
Herzog explains that there area lot of issues concerning Western intellectual property law being imposed against concepts of Aboriginal traditional concepts of Aboriginal traditional knowledge, which she finds to be a very interesting field of Canadian and international law.
“There’s a lot of disconnect and concern internationally, but it’s a really complicated thing,” Herzog said.
“I think one of the issues in the area I was working looking at was the difficulty of defining terms in copyright, and trying to articulate how concepts of traditional knowledge could be connected to intellectual property laws. But I think it was a very interesting experience going to Geneva and Norway, representing Canada on those issues.
While Herzog thoroughly enjoyed the work she was doing with Industry Canada and the federal government working on copyright law and with Aboriginal people, she realized her calling was in Canadian courtrooms.
“Ultimately, I decided that my career was best kept in Crown work” she said. “And I’ve been so busy with the Crown work, I’ve kind of had to leave that stuff behind me. It was all really interesting, but I haven’t had to time to keep up with it because it’s so complicated.
However, before focusing full-time on her trial and courtroom career, Herzog was able to participate in another educational experience involving Canada’s Aboriginal population.
“I was able to do some interesting work in Iqaluit, Nunavut, where I did some workshops that the government provides to two Aboriginal groups as an educational service,” she said. “So I provided some presentations on patent law and trademark law to Nunavut representatives who are concerned with traditional knowledge, and it was very interesting. They’re wonderful people and they had some really good questions.”
Now the newest Crown counsel in Prince Rupert, Herzog has been hard at work learning once again, as even the most basic of charges can mean a complicated process for prosecuting lawyers.
“You have to walk before you can run, so I don’t have experience with major crimes,” she said. “It’s very interesting and very complicated, and I’d say it’s a very steep learning curve to becoming a Crown Prosecutor. It’s not like on television. We have to step through everything very carefully and as a careful person, I try to be methodical and present everything as clearly as I can. It’s all quite meaningful and there’s never a dull moment.”
Herzog and her family are very excited about their new home in Prince Rupert, as they are all lovers of the outdoors and have already been busy kayaking and finding all the best hiking trails.
Herzog’s husband, Howard, has been working as a fill-in high school teacher since they arrived in may, and this summer is tackling the job of renovating their new home. The Herzogs also have four children, aging from three to 22.
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