Maintain a high grade point average during your pre-law university career. Your GPA must be consistently high during the required schooling period. There are Canadian law schools that accept you even if you have only attended two years at university, while others prefer that you hold an undergraduate degree.
Achieve a competitive score on your Law School Admission Test (LSAT). The LSAT is the exam you must take to gain entrance to law school. It consists of five sections that include analytical reasoning, reading comprehension, two sets of logical reasoning tests, and an uncensored section which is not included in the final computation of the scores. This uncensored section is used to pretest new questions that may be used for the next LSAT exams.
Collect letters of recommendation from respected figures that you know personally and have worked with. The recommendation letters may include a description of your traits as a worker or community projects in which you have been involved. The letters should basically provide an assessment of the qualities and capabilities that will help you succeed in your future law career in Canada.
Write a personal statement describing yourself and include any information you feel is relevant to your potential career as a lawyer.
Select one of the 22 accepted schools of law located across Canada. Refer to the list of accepted schools on the Council of Canadian Law Deans website.
Apply to your chosen Canadian law school and supply all of the required letters, documentation and statements you have gathered.
Attend law school and obtain your LL.B. or bachelor of laws degree. It will take three years to complete Canadian law school if you study full-time and four years if you study law part-time.