NEWS
4 | March 27, 2019
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Toronto Summer 2019 1L Recruitment Results 66 1Ls hired; 17% more than last year MELODY CHAN (1L) AND JAMES FLYNN (1L) This year’s 1L Recruit took place during reading week, February 19 –21. Overall, Toronto employers hired 66 students; 23 of those were from U of T and 21 were from Osgoode. The hiring numbers are about 17% higher than last year’s, when employers hired 57 students.
Some f irms that participated last year did not participate this year. Bennett Jones LLP did not participate in the 1L Recruit this year as they hired more students than expected from the 2L process, according to Christopher McKenna, the Manager, Student Recruitment and Programs for Ontar-
take part in the formal recruit or at jobs unrelated to law. Some, of course, will choose to spend their 1L summer nowhere near anything law-related; that may, in the long run, be for the better. Note that JD numbers in the below chart include non-JD/MBA joint-degree candidates.
io at Bennett Jones (Bennett Jones advertises in Ultra Vires). It is important to note that the 1L Recruit only makes up a small fraction of f irst-year summer hiring. 60 f irst-year students were hired through the Faculty Hiring process. Others may work at law f irms that did not
Faculty Hiring Numbers Sixty 1Ls get jobs through the Faculty for the summer MELODY CHAN (1L) AND JAMES FLYNN (1L) The Career Development Of f ice reported a total of 87 Faculty positions open to University of Toronto law students of all years for the summer of 2019. As expected, the majority of the jobs went to 1Ls, for whom law f irm positions are more limited. Downtown Legal Services was the largest employer, hiring 22 students in total. The IHRP was also a large summer job provider, giving 18 fellowships to 1Ls who will pursue roles with human rights organizations all over the world.
Employer Asper Centre
1L hires
2L hires
3L hires
2
Callwood Fellowship Case Book RA Program
TBD 4
6
N/A
Donner Fellowship
5
Downtown Legal Services
18
Future of Law - Blue J Legal Internship
2
2 3
1
22 10
1
International Human Rights Program (IHRP) RA IHRP Fellowship
18
Law in Action within Schools (LAWS)
5
3
4 1 18 5 1
1 2
2 TBD
1
1
60
9
2
Tuohy Fellowship TOTAL
1 1
PBSC Family Law Project SLS Fellowship
10
1
Law School Access Program (LSAP) Instructor Lenczner Slaght Advocacy Internship Award
7 2
Gerald Schwartz RA
Pro Bono Students Canada
4 6
Debwewin Program
Hatchery Law Connector Internship
Total Number of Positions 2
N/A 1
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