As a law student, you will face a very important decision: choosing the law firm with which you wish to article. The choice we make in selecting a student is equally important to us. We are well aware that the ability to recruit candidates of choice on a regular basis is key to maintaining our competitive edge. Most of our students are chosen in the second year of their law program. Those who wish to do so are encouraged to work with us as students, beginning the summer after they are hired, and we also accommodate part-time working hours throughout the university year. We believe that this practice helps strengthen our relationships with our students and allows them to more easily become familiar with our culture, clients and services. Students are then able to make an enlightened choice when it is time to decide at which firm to pursue their careers.

A dynamic and stimulating environment

Our law students and articling students quickly find themselves in the thick of things. Although research constitutes one of our students’ primary tasks, the degree of complexity of matters assigned to them and the level of responsibility required of them increase progressively, such that our articling students frequently meet with clients and participate in court proceedings and closings of commercial transactions. We consider our students and articling students important members of ...