Hannah
Roche⁺

Hannah loves learning. This love has led her around the world, observing and absorbing whatever culture surrounds her, and turned her into a master student of school and of life.

“MT+Co. embodies and imbues what it means when we say that ‘the law is about people’. Relationships are at the centre of this firm, and it’s amazing what happens when your motives for doing exceptional work stop being overburdening and start being life-giving. MT+Co. does outstanding work in challenging areas of law; but at the same time, the people at MT+Co. do not pass up an opportunity to laugh together, look out for one another, and make each other’s lives just a little bit better.

“I chose MT+Co. because I knew that I was passionate about litigation, the realization of reconciliation, and rejecting the status quo.”

Hannah is passionate about protecting people and the environment and is currently exploring ways to express these passions through the practice of law. She is an aspiring “ladygator”, working with and following in the footsteps of Erin Reimer and Joelle Walker.

Hannah gained experience at UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law in the following positions:

• Temporary Articled Student, Indigenous Community Legal Clinic
• Criminal Law Research Assistant to Professor Isabel Grant and Janine Benedict

She was also a Policy and Programs Assistant with the Government of Ontario – Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (“MOECC”), Resource Recovery and Policy Branch.

University of British Columbia Peter A. Allard School of Law

Juris Doctor candidate, anticipated date of completion May 2020

Recipient of the following:

• Indigenous Cultural Competency Certificate, completed April 2019
• Borden Ladner Gervais Professional Excellence Award, Peter A. Allard School of Law 2018
• Stikeman Elliot LLP Scholarship, Peter A. Allard School of Law 2018
• David Roberts Prize in Legal Writing, Peter A. Allard School of Law 2018
• Joan Joyce Carter Memorial Scholarship, Peter A. Allard School of Law 2018
• Graduating Class of ’59 Scholarship, Peter A. Allard School of Law 2018
• John E. Sullivan Memorial Prize (awarded for highest grade in Constitutional Law), Peter A. Allard School of Law 2018
• Sangra Memorial Entrance Award, Peter A. Allard School of Law 2017

McMaster University

Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours), Interdisciplinary Minor in Community Engagement, graduated summa cum laude

Recipient of:

• McMaster Provost Honour Roll Medal, McMaster University 2017
• Bert McKinnon Memorial Scholarship, McMaster University 2017
• Dean’s Honours List, McMaster University, 2013–2017
• Marauder Scholar for Combined Athletic and Academic Performance, McMaster University, 2014, 2015, 2016
• McMaster University Entrance Scholarship 2013
• Lieutenant Governor’s Community Volunteer Award 2012

Hannah co-authored papers presented at international conferences in 2012 and 2013: “A Novel Approach to Exposing Pre-University Students to Viable Options in the Health Sciences” and “Impacting Generation Z through a Medicine Summer Program for Youth at the University of Toronto” alongside scholars at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine.

She holds a Mental Health First Aid Certification from the Mental Health Commission of Canada as well as an Emergency Medical Responder Certification from the Canadian Red Cross.

Hannah is fluent in Turkish.

Some athletic highlights: Hannah plays in two soccer leagues, she likes to run straight up hills and she can handle a slingshot.

Additional highlights: Hannah loves blueberries (eating them) and botany. And when she’s not working, studying or playing soccer, Hannah likes to write non-fiction.

⁺I’m not a lawyer, but I’m close to it.