Summer and articling students across the country can't help but worry as the economic storm pounds the legal landscape.

As part of a Canadian Lawyer 4Students’ annual tradition, we’ve once again gone out to law students to get their take on summer work-term experiences at firms across the country.

Chad Skinner

The life of a typical Bay Street articling student isn’t an exciting prospect for everyone. Imagine this instead: After waking up, you head down to the local airstrip, where you’re joined by the rest of the court party — including the judge who will be presiding over your case later in the day.

PRACTISING IN ST. JOHN’S

 

STACEY GRANT
McInnes Cooper    

Pros:
• The bar in St. John’s is relatively small and collegial. As a result, lawyers encounter each other much more frequently than in larger cities. This allows lawyers to be more social with each other, and often lends to more agreeable professional relationships and less confrontation on files.

Canadian Lawyer 4Students wanted to know how managing partners in the country got to the top and what advice they could offer aspiring young law students with partnership ambitions. We asked the following questions:

Law students from eight law schools came together over the Jan. 24 weekend to participate in the annual Canadian Labour Arbitration Competition, hosted by Mathews Dinsdale & Clark LLP.

Canadian Lawyer's new-style Law School Survey does away with rankings, instead offering an overall review of each school with some input from students and alumni.

 

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A group of 26 articling students from 18 different Toronto law firms have come together to organize the second annual Give a Night event, a fundraiser being held in downtown Toronto to benefit people with AIDS in Africa.

Our annual survey of in-house counsel shows that 85 per cent of the time law departments don’t rate the services of outside law firms as any more impressive than their rivals.

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With the strike of 3,400 members of CUPE Local 3903 at York University, about 900 law students are facing cancelled classes. Canadian Lawyer 4Students speaks with a first-year Osgoode Hall Law School student about how the picketing is affecting his legal education.