Called to the Bar in 2014, T A Sahlemariam a.k.a. Tekle is a 2010 graduate of the University of British Columbia Law School. He also holds a BA degree from the Royal Roads University in Victoria as well as an LLM from the University of Ottawa. His LLM research focused on the constitutionality of deportation of non-citizens to a place where there is a risk of torture. He has extensive knowledge of that area of the jurisprudence. Sahlemariam articled with Mangat Law Professional Corporation, in Mississauga, ON for ten months. As a student-at-law, he has had the opportunity to work on several immigration, family and criminal law files.