THE TORONTO STUDENT EXPERIENCE
Summer Students. An important way to spend your summer.
Our Toronto summer student program provides a stimulating and challenging learning experience prior to your final year of law school. You'll have plenty of opportunities and a lot to do in just a few short months.
As part of our collaborative approach, we consult with our summer students prior to their arrival at the firm to discuss their goals and objectives. A summer program can be tailored to match each student's expectations and interests. Summer students have the opportunity to gain experience in a variety of areas or can choose to focus on an area of specific interest.
Under the guidance of experienced lawyers, you will
improve your drafting, problem solving, negotiation and oral advocacy skills.
Our formal mentoring program provides each of our students with three supervisors. Supervisors assist students in all aspects of their summer program, including integration into the firm, monitoring workload and providing feedback.
We recognize that knowing and understanding the business of our clients is fundamental to delivering effective legal services. Working in tandem with our clients, we've therefore instituted our Client Service Initiative. Under this program, summer students are given the opportunity to tour client facilities. These visits provide students with the chance to meet with members of the client's senior business and legal teams to discuss issues faced by the client in running its business operations and to hear what they look for from their legal counsel.
Each of our summer students can also choose from an exciting variety of external secondment opportunities. Such opportunities include working in our other Canadian offices, clients, government agencies and public interest groups. We're also open to your ideas. If you express an interest in a secondment experience other than those historically offered, we will work with you to facilitate a placement.
Recent summer student secondments include:
- Sony BMG Music (Canada) Inc.
- The Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington)
- Ontario Securities Commission
- Ontario Human Rights Commission
- Shibolet & Co., Israel
- UN Commission on International Trade Law, Austria
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Pro Bono Law Ontario
- Barrick Gold Corporation
To allow our students to get to know each other and our lawyers, we organize a number of social events throughout the summer such as Student Golf Day and whirlyball.