Molly Gangbar is a member of the 2025–2026 Articling Student class at Cassels, where she began her legal career as a 2L summer student.
Molly recently earned her JD from Western Law, where she received the Student Legal Society Entrance Scholarship and was a recipient of the Western Law Internship Program. In her final semester, she completed an advanced restructuring and insolvency course, and her final paper, was awarded third place nationally by the Insolvency Institute of Canada.
Throughout law school, Molly was actively involved in extracurriculars and advocacy. She served as the head of Running from the Law (Western Law’s run club), volunteered with Pro Bono Students Canada, worked as an associate caseworker at Western Community Legal Services, a member of the Jewish Law Students’ Association, Barristers and Baristas (coffee club), and assisted as a 1L Mentor. Molly was also a finalist in both the Lerners LLP Cup and the Cherniak Cup Trial Advocacy Competition.
In her 1L summer, Molly worked at Justice for Children and Youth, a legal clinic that provides advocacy, legal representation, and resources to youth under 18 and young adults experiencing housing insecurity.
Prior to law school, Molly attended Queen’s University, where she majored in History and earned a Certificate in Law from the Queen’s Faculty of Law. She was awarded the Thomas M. Walsh M.A. Memorial Prize in History. Throughout her undergraduate studies, she was a dedicated volunteer with Queen’s Correctional Service Volunteers, teaching art classes to federal offenders in Kingston correctional facilities.
In her free time, Molly is an avid long-distance runner, enjoys traveling, is a retired competitive ballerina, and a daily New York Times games fiend.
