Student Program
By combining student work with your studies, you have the advantage of familiarizing yourself with the firm before your articling term begins. The student program also allows you to make yourself known in a stimulating and exciting environment that just might end up being where you begin your legal career.
Here is an overview of our student program:
The Summer program
Summer program begins as soon as school ends at the beginning of May. This means you will have full-time work for a period of at least eight consecutive weeks. Following your first week of training and orientation, you will be assigned to one of our practice groups.
This assignment will gradually ease you into the firm's activities, and your direct participation will be called upon in a slew of stimulating cases. By working closely with the members of these groups, it will be easier for you to determine your preferred areas of practice.
The Fall-Winter program
Our fall-winter program offers the benefit of flexible hours that can be adapted to the demands of your university or Bar School schedule. Contrary to the summer program, you will not be assigned to a specific practice group. Instead, we will give you supervised research assignments and ad hoc mandates that you can work around your exam preparations.
Articling Student Program
At Fasken Martineau, we believe that your articling period is an important step in your career. We want you to get the maximum from that experience. For several years we have been fine-tuning our program to conform closely to your aspirations. Our objective is to expose you to a large variety of practice areas before you actually integrate into one of our professional sections. Our articling program is therefore a dynamic proposition: active practice in close collaboration with our lawyers in carrying out stimulating mandates in various areas of law and full integration into the Fasken Martineau team.
Articling periods begin on the dates indicated in the
École du Barreau du Québec calendar. It begins with a week of training and orientation on life at the firm. You are then assigned in three seven-week rotations in each of the three major practice areas: litigation, labor law and employment and business law. At the end of the third rotation, you choose the practice area where you want to finish your articling period.
Compensation
We want to ensure your integration into our team of lawyers, which will undoubtedly lead to a stimulating career with our firm. Our policy on compensation and employee benefit for our student, articling students and lawyers is fully comparable with those of the other major law firms.
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