The Student Experience

Our Vancouver office, as well as each of the other Stikeman Elliott offices, runs a separate recruitment process - please make sure you apply to our Vancouver office if you are interested in living and working in Vancouver. We currently have three articling students. Generally, we hire three articling students each year. Our students are not on a rotation system, but have access to and are called upon to work in all areas of practice. We provide informal and formal feedback. We give what we believe to be an unusually high degree of individual responsibility to our articling students in the expectation that initiative, maturity and practice skills will develop more rapidly. Many of the tasks of an articling student are the tasks an associate at another firm would perform.

Salary and Benefits
Our current articling student salary is $48,000 per annum. Our current summer student salary is $3,750 per month. We pay third year law tuition fees (up to $5,000) for our summer students, as well as a $500 book allowance. We pay all costs of the PLTC program for our students, as well as paying full salary during attendance at PLTC.  We also pay up to a maximum of $600 for yearly health club fees for any fitness centre for a period of 12 months.