Montréal
How To Apply
Montréal – Summer Programme
How to Apply:
The Montréal office is proud to offer summer employment to its articling students. This work opportunity allows students to become familiar with the office and gain valuable work experience before officially beginning their articling. Only articling students are offered the possibility of working as students during the summer preceding the beginning of their articling period.
Applications limited to summer work as a student are generally not considered. All other applications are evaluated in accordance with the selection process for articling students.
Montréal – Articling Programme
How to Apply:
The Montréal office adheres to the agreement among large Montréal law firms dealing with recruitment of articling students. Therefore, we follow, with certain adaptations, the rules set out in the agreement. Whether or not a candidate is governed by the agreement, we treat all applications the same. In principle, we do not recruit articling students outside the period of recruitment stipulated in the agreement.
The interview period is as set out in the agreement (typically, beginning the second Monday in March for articling positions that are two years away). For example, in March 2010, we interviewed for articling positions in 2012.
For actual dates and for a review of the agreement, please access the following sites:
Law Faculty Université de Montréal for information on the articling process and the “Agreement”:
http://www.droit.umontreal.ca/services/cdp/foire_aux_questionsEetS.html
University of Québec at Montréal (UQAM):
http://www.fspd.uqam.ca/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=211
University of Ottawa:
University of Sherbrooke:
http://www.usherbrooke.ca/droit/faculte/etudier/travail/stages-cabinets/
Bar school:
http://www.ecoledubarreau.qc.ca/stages/
McGill University
http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/staff/sem/recruitment-stages/
Laval University
Our office accepts all applications received before the start of the interview period. You can forward your application by any means (e-mail, hand delivery, courier, mail, or placement service at your law faculty). All applications are read in full and considered.
All applications must contain your curriculum vitae, letter of presentation and transcripts of law studies. Letters of reference are not essential, but recommended. Please submit your applications to:
Patricia Fourcand
Miller Thomson
1155 René-Lévesque Blvd. West
31st
Floor
Montréal,
Québec
H3B
3S6
E-mail: pfourcand@millerthomson.com
Tel.: 514.871.5472
Fax: 514.875.4308
The selection process for articling positions at the Montréal office is as follows:
All applications from students of each law school are grouped together by law faculty and evaluated as such. No cross-university evaluations are done.
Based on each application taken as a whole, a pre-selection is made so that we may interview 120 candidates among all applications received, for a first interview. The Montréal office prides itself on interviewing the largest number of candidates among all law firms in Montréal. The pre-selection is divided among all law schools proportionate to the number of applications received. The Montréal office does not make a pre-selection based strictly on law school marks, nor on a given benchmark general grade-point average.
First interviews, lasting approximately 15 minutes each, are held during the first week of interviews, according to the agreement, between 4:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., from Monday to Thursday, with two interview teams made up of two lawyers, per day.
Out of the group of first interviewees, approximately 30 are referred to a second, longer interview before three senior lawyers. Second interviews are done in the second week of the recruiting period.
From the second interviewees, approximately 15 candidates are invited to a cocktail reception at the office, where they can meet other lawyers of the firm and visit the office. This event is held several days before the date when formal offers can be made, according to the agreement.
From this short list, we establish a list by order of preference and offers are made on the day set aside for such purpose in the Agreement.