Your interests shape your experience at Fasken Martineau.

As part of our collaborative approach, we consult with our students prior to their arrival at the firm to discuss their goals and objectives. Student programs 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. Articling students have the freedom to choose rotations during the articling term. This flexibility also allows you deeper involvement with the files that you are working on. Under the guidance of experienced lawyers and staff, you will improve your drafting problem solving, negotiation and oral advocacy skills.

Training

During your summer work as a student or during your articles, you participate in our Lunch & Learn meetings during which one of our lawyers will discuss a topic of legal interest. You can also attend training sessions and workshops for lawyers and you are entitled to computer training and special sessions on research techniques.

Fasken Martineau has sizeable documentary resources to support the research work of the Montréal and Québec City articling students and law students. Our primary mission is to deliver the best information within tight deadlines required by the practice of law for a business clientele.

Arranged over two floors, our Montréal office library is a comfortable place to work in and very conducive to research. Computers are available for articling students and law students. Our collection is accessed through our computerized catalogue and we have a panoply of data banks designed to facilitate research. Our Québec City office also has its library as well as full access to all available electronic data banks and tools.


The Team

Legal research sometimes poses particular difficulties. Our librarians and documentation technicians will be pleased to put their vast experience at the service of lawyers, articling students and law students. We also provide personalized training in electronic tools and other documentary tools.


The Collection

Our library is one of the largest private law libraries in Montréal. We have all the tools and scholarly works required for doing research in Québec and Canadian law. Thus, your research work can be fully accomplished in the library.

We are updating a vast collection of doctrinal works, case reports and specialized periodicals as well as a collection of electronic products, CD-ROMS and specialized legal and business Internet links. In addition to our locally-available collection, you are entitled to access our Toronto and Vancouver office libraries, which can be consulted by anyone in the firm.

We have entered into agreements with the libraries of the Université de Montréal and the Barreau allowing us to access their vast holding of texts on foreign law, their numerous legal and business legislation databanks, case law and American legal doctrine and the laws in force in various Commonwealth countries.

Education

Our library has over 8,500 titles which you can consult as well as various databases and a virtual library, CD-ROMS, periodicals and contemporary works and classic textbooks. Our documentation centre, our knowledge management system and ready access to the libraries in our other offices are an efficient way for you to mine the whole firm's accumulated knowledge and expertise. Our team of librarians and technicians, as clever as they are qualified, are there to help you do your research so that you can accomplish your mandates.

The Student Lunch and Learn Program is an enriching experience where our summer students meet with different lawyers.

Here are some of the topics discussed in the past few years :

- The steps of a real estate transaction (Nicolas Leblanc)
- The networking and business development
- The path of the Honourable Justice Louise Mailhot and functioning of the Court of Appeal and what is expected from the lawyer who is present (Honourable Louise Mailhot)
- The role and Canada's place in the world (Raymond Chrétien)
- The career of the Honourable Jean-Louis Baudoin and practice of a young lawyer in court (The Honorable Jean-Louis Baudoin)
- Public-Private Partnership (Lévy Bazinet)
- Securities (Christian Jacques)
- The job of a lawyer who is working in enterprise (Stephen Caïdi)
- The Corporate Law (Patrice Vachon)
- How well prepared to host a conference (Jean-François Lévesque)

Mentoring

The lawyers in charge of the student program as well as those in charge of the articling student program meet with you on a weekly basis to discuss the assigned cases and talk about the week's experiences. They make sure the program runs smoothly and are there to assist you throughout your training.

The Student Program Coordinator is always available to help you out and to ensure that the program runs smoothly.

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