Your articling experience begins with an in-depth orientation session. Articling students can also participate in firm-wide training programs offered to all our lawyers. Your associate mentor will answer your questions, provide advice and guide you through professional events. Work at BLG Calgary and launch your successful legal career. With hands-on experience, mentorship and regular evaluations, your BLG experience will set you up to get ahead.
Being surrounded by such friendly, intelligent and dedicated colleagues is a privilege. In that sense, the most important qualities you can bring to the table, as a student, are your eagerness to learn and your enthusiasm The firm encourages people to combine professional excellence and community engagement.
You will meet people here who give a real purpose to the legal profession. I learned to ask questions and connect with my colleagues as much as possible. BLG fosters an environment in which it is encouraged to test your thoughts with other people I have only worked at BLG for one summer, yet already feel like I am part of a family. Our Calgary office has approximately lawyers. We invite first-year candidates to in-firm interviews led by two lawyers.
We then invite candidates to meet with other members of our team informally over coffee or drinks. We invite second-year candidates to interviews on campuses in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Toronto, with one exception: University of Calgary students attend first interviews in our offices.
We then conduct second interviews in our offices, led by two lawyers. We also provide unconscious bias training to everyone involved in recruitment. BLG Calgary recruits with the goal of building our firm over the long term. Regardless of where you grew up or went to school, if you want to forge your law career in Alberta, we want to hear from you.
Summer students generally start in early May and stay until mid-August. We have many resources, all which are available to our students: IT services, word processing, corporate and library services, a copy centre and facilities support.
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Services No results. People No results View All People. Insights No results View All Insights. News No results View All News. View All Results. Summer Program. This includes: conducting research helping with all aspects of business transactions handling Small Claims Court matters drafting contracts and pleadings attending discoveries, court appearances and client meetings.
Articling Program. While assisting lawyers on major matters, you will: attend meetings, discoveries and mediations draft memoranda, contracts and legal opinions conduct due diligence and research work on pro bono projects and cases manage your own Small Claims Court matters. Apply Now. Frequently Asked Questions. How many lawyers are with BLG? How many students do you hire?
What does BLG Toronto look for in candidates? We want students who: have the potential to grow into associates and then partners have strong leadership and entrepreneurial skills in addition to academic achievements possess sound judgment and excellent oral and written communication skills have exciting, fulfilling interests outside their career ambitions In short, we look for exceptional people.
How does the interview process work? Services No results. People No results View All People. Insights No results View All Insights. News No results View All News. View All Results. Summer Program Work with us for a summer or two prior to articling. Articling Program Our flexible articling program builds on your time as a BLG summer student and gives you the freedom to work in the practice areas that interest you most.
Hands-on Experience Lawyers will assign you work directly, tasks much the same as those done by junior associates. These may include: attending meetings drafting and pleading motions conducting discoveries preparing and signing letters of demands drafting contracts.
Apply Now. Frequently Asked Questions. How many lawyers are with Borden Ladner Gervais? How many students do you normally hire? We look for students who: embody our core values: integrity, teamwork, commitment and client-centred service fit well with our office culture and have the potential to grow into associates and then partners have strong leadership and entrepreneurial skills in addition to strong academic achievements possess sound judgment and excellent oral and written communication skills in both official languages have exciting, fulfilling interests outside their career ambitions In short: we look for exceptional people.
How does the interview process work? When do summer and articling students start work? What kind of training will I receive at BLG? What type of work will I be doing? Our summer program provides students with in-depth involvement in business and litigation law. We offer a range of opportunities for legal support and business services functions.
Find your perfect fit. Big firm prestige. Boutique firm culture. BLG Ottawa offers you both. Our students enjoy all the advantages of a nationally recognized bilingual firm. They also benefit from the hands-on training, practical experience and community spirit valued in smaller firms. We also offer first- and second-year students an intensive program in intellectual property IP law.
In the summer IP program, you'll be immersed in trademark, copyright and patent work, and IP litigation. You'll meet your mentor. You'll also attend weekly seminars throughout the summer to learn about the many types of law we practise. Our accomplished lawyers will introduce you to all aspects of legal practice, including meetings, discoveries and court appearances. As an articling student, you'll get extensive hands-on experience in litigation, business law and IP law—work similar to that done by our junior associates.
The general articling program includes rotations in both litigation and business law, with an optional rotation in IP law. Our intensive IP articling program includes work in trademark, copyright and patent law, and IP litigation.
It also includes optional rotations in litigation or business law. Articling students can also participate in firm-wide training programs offered throughout the year to all our lawyers.
Your mentor will answer your questions, provide feedback and guide you through professional events. Articling students handle the same kind of work as our junior associates. While shadowing lawyers on major matters, you will:. Work at BLG Ottawa and launch your successful legal career.
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