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McCarthy Tétrault LLP - Toronto, Ontario
Recruitment & Hiring
| 1st Yr. Summer | 2nd Yr. Summer | Articling Students | |
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| How many did you/will you hire for: | |||
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| 2023 | |||
| 2024 | |||
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| Rotation | |||
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First Year Summer Students |
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| FIRST YEAR SUMMER STUDENTS:Do you recruit first year summer students? | Yes |
| When is the application deadline for first year summer students? | Per LSO guidelines |
| When is the interviewing period? | Per LSO guidelines |
| Do you participate in on-campus interview (OCI) programs to fill such positions? | No |
| Description of first year summer program: |
Diversity and inclusion have always been a priority for McCarthy Tétrault. In 2019, we made a conscious decision to elevate and accelerate our efforts, creating a ground-breaking program called “Inclusion Now”. Inclusion Now was recently named Diversity Program of the Year at the Canadian Law Awards. As part of our talent strategy to attract, retain and advance exceptional lawyers and students from equity seeking groups, we are pleased to announce our participation in this year’s 1L recruit with our 2024 1L Black and Indigenous Summer Program.
The summer student experience is a formative stage in your legal career. We recognize the importance of this foundational experience and, as a result, we invest heavily in nurturing our student talent to ensure each student develops and grows to their potential. Through thoughtful mentoring, transparent feedback, high quality work assignments, meaningful pro bono and charitable opportunities as well as community building events, we support each student as they explore and discover their areas of interest and make strong team relationships with Firm members. Our 1L summer students will join our 2L students in a summer student program designed to introduce students to the practice of law and to the Firm’s wealth of practice areas. Our summer students have the opportunity to work with Canada’s leading lawyers in our core practice areas: Business Law, Tax, Litigation, Real Property & Planning, and Labour & Employment. Our program begins with an intensive orientation and training to introduce you to the Firm, research and writing techniques and to provide you with tips and strategies to help maximize your summer experience. For example, you will take part in an exercise based research training workshop led by members of the Firm’s Research Group. In addition, we offer extensive education and professional development programs covering topics such as “The Student’s Role in Closings”, “The Student’s Role in the Litigation Process” and “The Student’s Role in Due Diligence”. As a complement to the practical education sessions, we host practice group “Overview” and “Career Spotlight” sessions, inviting lawyers to speak about their practice and interesting topical matters. Recognizing that our student groups are highly diverse, we also provide programming and guidance including the opportunity to work with a certified professional coach to facilitate your transition into the professional work environment. In Toronto, students choose two practice areas and spend the summer assisting both groups simultaneously. We encourage students to explore their areas of interest and intentionally maintain flexibility in our program to ensure a diversity of work opportunities. Summer students are assigned a mentor in each practice area and are part of a small group mentoring hive. Our mentors are responsible for introducing you to members of our firm and ensuring that you receive interesting and stimulating work, collaborating with the Director, Professional Resources to provide you with ongoing transparent performance feedback, as well as professional guidance and support. Our popular “Speed Networking” session provides a great opportunity to meet many of our partners and associates at the beginning of your summer. As a McCarthy Tétrault summer student, you are given a broad range of responsibilities and opportunities to deepen your legal knowledge, build your networks and develop your skills through your contributions to rewarding legal work. Opportunities include but are not limited to attending meetings, hearings and other litigation processes, researching and drafting legal memos, research support to trial teams, preparing draft advocacy and transactional documents, due diligence and work relating to the closing of transactions, participating in the drafting of conference materials, articles and case summaries. As a strong supporter of pro bono initiatives and as the sole national firm sponsor of Pro Bono Students Canada, our lawyers provide services to the community in areas as diverse as civil liberties, human rights, financial, business, labour and employment law. Under their supervision, our students get hands-on experience working with clients and addressing challenging issues with the benefit of the firm’s vast resources and experience. In addition to great work and pro bono opportunities, there are several events throughout the summer for you to get to know other students and our lawyers. |
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| How many weeks is the first year summer program? | 12-13 weeks |
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Second Year Summer Students |
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| SECOND YEAR SUMMER STUDENTS:Do you recruit second year summer students? | Yes |
| When is the application deadline for second year summer students? | Per LSO guidelines |
| When is the interviewing period? | Per LSO guidelines |
| Do you participate in on-campus interview (OCI) programs to fill such positions? | Yes |
| Description of the second year summer program |
The summer student experience is a formative stage in your legal career. We recognize the importance of this foundational experience and as a result, we invest heavily in nurturing our student talent to ensure each student develops and grows to their potential. Through thoughtful mentoring, transparent feedback, high quality work assignments, meaningful pro bono and charitable opportunities as well as social and community building events, we support each student as they explore and discover their areas of interest and make strong team relationships with their peers and our lawyers.
Our summer student program is designed to introduce students to the practice of law and to the Firm’s wealth of practice areas. Our summer students have the opportunity to work with Canada’s leading lawyers in our core practice areas: Business Law, Tax, Litigation, Real Property & Planning, and Labour & Employment. Our program begins with an intensive orientation and training to introduce you to the Firm, research and writing techniques and to provide you with tips and strategies to help maximize your summer experience. For example, you will take part in an exercise based research training workshop led by members of the Firm’s Research Group. In addition, we offer extensive education and professional development programs covering topics such as “The Student’s Role in the Litigation Process”, “Transition from Law School to Firm” and “Closing Folders”. As a complement to the practical education sessions, we host practice group “Overview” and “Career Spotlight” sessions, inviting lawyers to speak about their practice and interesting topical matters. We also provide programming and guidance to facilitate your transition into the professional work environment. In Toronto, students choose two practice areas and spend the summer assisting both groups simultaneously. We encourage students to explore their areas of interest and intentionally maintain flexibility in our program to ensure a diversity of work opportunities. Summer students are assigned a mentor in each practice area, and are included in mentoring “hives” consisting of a small group of their peers and other mentors. Our mentors are responsible for introducing you to the members of our firm and ensuring that you receive interesting and stimulating work, collaborating with the Director, Professional Resources to provide you with ongoing transparent performance feedback, as well as professional guidance and support. Our popular “Speed Networking” session provides a great opportunity to meet many of our partners and associates at the beginning of your summer. As a McCarthy Tétrault summer student, you are given a broad range of responsibilities and opportunities to deepen your legal knowledge, build your networks and develop your skills through your contributions to rewarding legal work. Opportunities include but are not limited to attending meetings, hearings and other litigation processes, researching and drafting legal memos, research support to trial teams, preparing draft advocacy and transactional documents, due diligence and work relating to the closing of transactions, participating in the drafting of conference materials, articles and case summaries. As a strong supporter of pro bono initiatives and as the sole national firm sponsor of Pro Bono Students Canada, our lawyers provide services to the community in areas as diverse as civil liberties, human rights, financial, business, labour and employment law. Under their supervision, our students get hands-on experience working with clients and addressing challenging issues with the benefit of the firm’s vast resources and experience. In addition to great work and pro bono opportunities, there are several events throughout the summer for you to get to know other students and our lawyers. |
| Comments | |
| How many weeks is the second year summer program? | 12-13 weeks |
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OCIs |
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| Will you be participating in OCIs this year? | Yes |
| Schools: | Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Law|McGill University, Faculty of Law|Osgoode Hall Law School, York University|Queen's University, Faculty of Law|University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law|University of New Brunswick, Faculty of Law|University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section|University of Toronto, Faculty of Law|University of Victoria, Faculty of Law|University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Law|University of Windsor, Faculty of Law|Ryerson University, Lincoln Alexander School of Law |
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Other Campus Recruiting |
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| We will be recruiting students from the following law schools (outside of the OCI process) | |
| Comments | |
| 2023 | 2024 | |
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| No. of 1st Year Summer Students | ||
| No. of 1st Year Summer Students Offered Articling Positions (region dependent) | ||
| No. of 2nd Year Summer Students | ||
| No. of 2nd Year Summer Students Offered Articling Positions | ||
| Quebec: Number of future articling students working as a 2nd year summer student | ||
| Atlantic: No. of articling students hired during 2nd year January recruitment | ||
| No. of additional articling students hired (in some regions, in addition to students hired through the summer process) |
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Articling Students |
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| When do you hire articling students? | |
| Do you still have any articling positions open for this year (starting 2024)? | No |
| Do you anticipate having articling positions open for next year (starting in 2025) for external candidates outside of your current student hires (if any)? | No |
| If so, how many positions do you anticipate having for external candidates? | |
| Do you allow students to work during the licensing process in your jurisdiction? | Case-by-Case |
| Description of articling program |
The Toronto office hires its articling student complement from its summer student groups and, as a result, does not participate in the articling student recruitment process.
Our Toronto office articling program provides a comprehensive introduction to our firm as well as a well-rounded articling experience. We focus on providing you with challenging experiences that foster individual initiative in a supportive environment. We will treat you as a professional, capable of taking on responsibilities and experiencing our practice first-hand by working on transactional and advocacy documents, attending client meetings, strategy sessions, hearings and trials. To this end, you will participate in the flexible rotation system we have developed to provide our articling students with the opportunity to work with many lawyers in different areas of practice. In each rotation, you will work on a wide variety of files and projects, exposing you to a diverse range of expertise and practice styles. You may also have the opportunity to do external rotations with significant clients such as Toronto Dominion Bank and the Royal Bank of Canada. You will be assigned a mentor in each rotation. They will be an experienced lawyer who will ensure that you receive interesting and challenging work, as well as a balanced articling experience. Your mentor will provide you with general assistance, support and guidance, informal feedback and help you manage your workload. The Director, Professional Resources, who regularly reviews each student’s workload, will work with you and your mentor to help ensure that you get a variety of different work assignments. In addition, you will be assigned a principal lawyer to oversee your progress and ensure fulfillment of the Law Society of Ontario's articling requirements. Our students have formal performance evaluations at least twice during the articling term. The purpose of the evaluations is to help students obtain maximum benefit from their articling experience. Similar to our Summer Student Program, our Articling Students receive detailed attributable feedback as part of our transparent evaluation process and each student meets with the Director, Professional Resources during each review period to discuss the student’s strengths, constructive feedback and their ongoing professional development and goals. Our Education team works with the Student Programs team to establish development goals for our articling students. Our comprehensive articling student legal education and professional development program will teach you how to draft pleadings and organize a transactional closing, among other skills. The curriculum also includes strategic practice tips, going to trial, commercial drafting, an overview of transactions, developing effective negotiation skills and making the transition to associate. In addition, we provide an intensive exercise based legal research seminar that will teach you how to complete research assignments efficiently and confidently. Individual lawyers also make regular presentations on recent court decisions and transactions. |
| Comments | |
| Do you offer internships? | No |
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Summer/Articling |
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| Do you accept applications for summer/articling positions from foreign trained students/lawyers? | Yes |
| If yes, do applicants need to have an Assessment Report from the National Committee on Accreditation (in Québec, an attestation from le Barreau du Québec) before applying? | Yes |
| Comments | For foreign trained students who are not yet eligible to be formally assessed by the NCA, it would be helpful for them to indicate in their application when they reasonably expect to article after consulting with the NCA. |
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Required Application Materials |
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| Required Application Materials |
Resume cover letter post secondary transcripts law school transcripts list of upper year courses |
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Preferred Method of Application |
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| Preferred Method of Application | viDesktop Portal |
| Comments | We strongly prefer viDesktop Portal |
| 2023 | 2024 | |
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| How many articling students did you offer a first year lawyer position? | ||
| How many articling students in your articling program were seeking a position? | ||
| How many additional first year associates did you hire outside of your articling student program? | ||
| How many of the additional students clerked? |
