Les programmes d'été

For summer positions, we hire students who have completed their second year of law school or their third year of a four-year program. We view the summer as a great opportunity for you to get a broad exposure to the practice areas in which you're interested, as we recognize that it's still early in your career.

Some of the highlights of our summer programme include:

Flexibility during the Summer:   Our summer students are placed in the department(s) of their choice for the summer, to ensure that their experiences reflect their objectives and interest. We don't have formal rotations during the summer, so you can have a varied work experience or focus on one practice area, depending on your interests.  

Mentorship Programme: You will be matched with three mentors (a partner and two associates) from your practice area(s) of interest. Your mentors will be instrumental in the work that you're involved in at the beginning of the summer, and will provide you with career development advice and support throughout the summer.

Workload and Responsibility - Students are offered an unusually high degree of individual responsibility here in the expectation that their initiative, maturity and practice skills will develop more rapidly.  Summer students receive a significant amount of their work through their mentors, although they also need to seek out work from other lawyers. Summer students meet as a group once a week with Ritu Bhasin, Director of Student and Associate Programmes, to discuss individual workload and periodically will discuss work with their mentors as well.

Evaluation Process: Summer students receive formal feedback in July from lawyers they have worked with. This feedback informs our decision as to whether to offer each student an articling position. We have had great success with our summer students, with virtually all of our summer students returning as articling students over the last several years.

Number of Summer Students Typically Hired: 10 to 15.  For the summer of 2006, we hired 13 summer students. For the summer of 2007, we plan to hire within this range as well.

Summer Student Compensation

• Salary: Our summer programme compensation philosophy is to pay our students at or near the top of the market for students at full-service Toronto firms.  Currently, our summer students are paid $1,300 per week.
• Technology:   We pay for and provide a BlackBerry to all summer students for their use during their time working with us.
• Vacation:  Summer students receive one week paid vacation during the summer.
• Fitness Membership: The firm pays the full cost of a four-month fitness membership for summer students.