​The Women’s Legal Mentorship Program (WLMP) Certification Programs are designed to allow WLMP Student members the chance to develop soft-skills, mentoring, leadership, equity building, business development and program management skills.

There are two certification programs: the WLMP Executive Leadership Certificate^™ and the WLMP Peer Leadership Certificate^™.

Our certification programs help WLMP Student members showcase their skills and mentoring with the WLMP program to current and prospective employers.

The WLMP Peer Leadership Certificate^™

The WLMP Peer Leadership Certificate^™ offers WLMP law student members, who are registered in a WLMP National Program, the opportunity to demonstrate the leadership skills they developed through active ethical mentorship.

WLMP National Program Peer Mentors develop:

• Increased interpersonal communications skills.
• Self-awareness and confidence.
• Collaborative problem solving skills.
• Skills gained through the WLMP’s accredited Equity, Truth and Reconciliation, Business and Leadership Development Sessions.
• Mentorship ethics and mentoring skills.
• Time management.
• Active listening and more!

All WLMP Peer Mentors who have fulfilled their WLMP Professional Development accredited WLMP event hours and fulfilled their peer mentoring duties are eligible to apply and receive a WLMP Peer Leadership Certificate.^™

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Criteria of  the WLMP Peer Leadership Certificate™

WLMP Peer Mentors who fully engage with the WLMP Peer Leadership Certificate^™ programming develop insight into the mentorship and professional development key to the legal profession. The WLMP Peer Leadership Certificate^™ gives WLMP Law Student Members who register in this certification program the chance to showcase their mentoring skills to future employers.

First step in earning your WLMP Peer Leadership Certificate™ is applying to be a WLMP Peer Mentor.

To receive a Peer Leadership Certificate™, a WLMP Law Student Member must:

• be registered as a WLMP Peer Mentor by the Fall Application deadline;
• be engaged in mentoring a first year (1L) or a fellow second-year (2L) or third year (3L) law student;
• have completed their Peer Mentoring commitment for the full academic year; and,
• finally, they must submit their information for the minimum of 3 hours total of attendance at a WLMP event or WLMP accredited event by the required deadline dates.

The WLMP Peer Leadership Certificate™ requires WLMP Peer Mentors registered in the certification program to:

What are WLMP Accredited Events and How Often Do You Need to Submit Your Hours?

• ​​All WLMP online or hybrid events are accredited. When a law student member who is enrolled in the WLMP Peer Leadership Certificate™ program attends a WLMP event like our speed mentoring, networking or webinars, they receive a 1 hour credit.
• WLMP affiliated events are workshops or events at a law school, where the law school or a specific women in law club within a Canadian law school has requested be accredited by the WLMP so its members who are enrolled in the WLMP Peer Leadership Certificate™ program can receive a credit that goes towards their certificate. These workshops or events must fall under the WLMP’s guidelines for equity, leadership and/or professional development events. For more information, email info@wlmp-pmdf.ca.
• WLMP Law Student Members can submit their hours as they complete them or 2 times a year during the WLMP’s advertised certification program deadline dates.

How Do You Assess the Peer Mentoring?

• WLMP Peer Mentors must complete and submit the WLMP’s Peer Mentoring Expectations Form™.
• The WLMP follows up throughout the year with WLMP Peer Mentor Matches to assess their mentoring experience and also to spotlight the work of their WLMP Peer Mentorship Circles through the WLMP’s newsletter, blog and social media.

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WLMP Executive Leadership Certificate^™

The WLMP Executive Leadership Certificate^™ is unique to the WLMP National Student Program. It’s open to all law students who have taken on a WLMP Student Leadership volunteer role.

WLMP Student Leaders manage a specific project or initiative directly related to the WLMP’s mission. Giving them a chance to develop their leadership skills in a safe environment and earn a WLMP Executive Leadership Certificate^™.​  

Skills Developed through the WLMP Executive Leadership Certificate^™

WLMP Student Leaders develop the following executive skills:

• Basic business planning.
• Project resource management.
• Project management skills.
• Introductory meeting management and committee chair skills.
• Time management.
• Public speaking and more!

​All volunteer WLMP Student Leaders who served their full term as a project or team lead and completed the required project and complete their final exit assessment will be eligible to apply and receive a WLMP Executive Leadership Certificate.^™

Through the WLMP Executive Leadership Certificate^™, student leaders are able to demonstrate their executive skills to prospective employers. As well, those who successfully complete their term report increased confidence, a better understanding of the soft skills prospective employers are looking for and a basis for further developing their overall leadership skills.