Sentences with phrase «finding articling positions»

Law students often have a difficulty finding articling positions because they do not offer good value for money.

Those worrying about finding articling positions, whether internationally trained or not, need not dwell on their anxieties just yet.

In my first column in The Lawyers Weekly I introduce some anecdotal stories of older law students having difficulty finding articling positions, which they attribute to ageism.

Although law students in that province currently have no problem finding articling positions, the law society is taking precautions by establishing an articling task force subcommittee to follow the changes in Ontario and re-examine its current articling system.

Sure, go ahead add another Law School, if it brings in significant revenue for Ryerson, regardless that there already is a significant problem with existing graduates finding articling positions.

Students who used to graduate law school with manageable debt had a reasonable expectation of finding articling positions and eking out modest but respectful livings under the tutelage of revered senior counsel.

That result might seem surprising given the recent headlines declaring the demise of Canadian law firms (not to mention the hordes of law grads struggling to find articling positions), but lawyers are big earners, and over the past five years their numbers have swollen by 10,000.

Spring — the season where many third - year law students scramble to find an articling position before the semester expires.

A recent article in The Lawyers Weekly noted that even though Manitoba graduates currently can find articling positions, the situation there may drastically change because of what is going on in Ontario.

Conceived as an eight - month - long, coursework - based alternative to articling, the Law Society of Upper Canada's controversial Law Practice Program began in 2014 as a response to the increasing number of new graduates unable to find articling positions.

But for students unable to find an articling position they will be able to qualify for admission by taking an eight month program composed of four months of classroom study plus four months of unpaid «co-op work» at a law firm or sole practitioner — see The Globe and Mail article, November 30, 2012, by Kirk Makin.

Certainly the rather abrupt rise in the rate of «unplaced lawyer candidates» — students unable to find articling positions — from 5.8 % in 2008 to 12.1 % in 2011 is an eye - popper and potentially a game changer.

Racialized licensees were also more likely to have struggled to find an articling position or training placement.

We do know that a «significant proportion» of the over 200 students in the LPP are NCA students, and some of these NCA students do find articling positions as well.

To have the mandatory four - year B.A. requirement under the current conditions where a law degree is a degree with more limited job prospects than in the past is the biggest contributor to the crisis of law students and young lawyers who can not find articling positions and entry level jobs.

As someone who hjust got called in June 2011, let me tell you I had such difficulty finding an articling position.

Finding an articling position or post-articling job may be difficult right now, although the introduction of the Law Practice Program in 2014 expanded the options for students.

I started my articling year during the 1990 recession and, although I found an articling position, many of my colleagues had a hard time getting placed.

Opportunities for new graduates in Canada are decreasing, and many competent graduates can not even find articling positions.

I found an articling position.

The responsibility for finding an articling position is up to the applicant.

Take, for example, the finding in the Consultation Paper that almost half of the racialized licensees surveyed «strongly or somewhat agreed» that they had struggled to find an articling position or training placement.

How do they perceive the legal marketplace given that 13 % of Ontario law school graduates did not find articling positions this year?

Between 10 and 15 per cent of fully qualified law school graduates, about 400 students, can not find articling positions.

As a result, many candidates found articling positions instead.

This is a good a good article; however I know a lot of internationally trained lawyers that did not find articling positions after completing the NCA.

Canada hasn't yet experienced such drastic outcomes, but the rising number of graduating law students who can't find articling positions should be considered a warning alarm of similar trouble.

For example, Law Society of Upper Canada Bencher Tom Conway, chairman of the task force on articling, provided statistics showing that more than 12 per cent of law school graduates in 2011 couldn't find an articling position.

Moreover, it seems part of the concern for the sustainability (and a problem with subsidizing the program) is that it was rapidly becoming a solution for other provinces» articling crises — e.g., students from other provinces who couldn't find articling positions would enroll in the LPP in Ontario and then head back home after they get called.

Augustine also says she is pleased to see the Law Society of Upper Canada's creation of a pilot project for a Law Practice Program as an alternative path to licensing, especially since it has become increasingly difficult for internationally trained lawyers to find articling positions in Ontario.

Not exact matches

Positioning in the currency markets saw the pound slip in early trade on Wednesday morning before finding its feet and trading mostly flat against the U.S. dollar in the run - up to the official triggering of Article 50 — which kickstarted the negotiations between the U.K. and Brussels shortly before 12:30 p.m. London time.

If anyone critical of your article found them in a similar position to yours I am confident that they would be expecting fair treatment.

Business Ideas for the Reluctant Entrepreneur - This article is intended to help the «reluctant entrepreneur» - those who were not planning on, or dreaming of starting a business, but suddenly find themselves in a financial or other position that requires them to find an alternative means of income or supplemental income.

While you are certainly entitled to your opinion, and while it is true that there are some in leadership positions for self - serving purposes I find the secularization of your article very disheartening as it relates to the body of Christ.

I am cutting from an article that touches on Harpur that I found relevent to my position.

The Regenraize study while everyone here said it's faulty and under review I have not found one article to verify that position.

In their lectures and articles and efforts to sift and winnow the Bible so as to expose the contaminations of patriarchy they may appear very sophisticated; yet once we blow away the smoke we will find that, at bottom, they are in the same intellectual position as a pouting child at the breakfast table picking the raisins out of the bran flakes.

For those interested in where I'm coming from from a philosophical standpoint, I've found some Wikipedia articles that, at first glance, anyway, describe my position.

I trivially found an article on the web that completely supports the soldier's position and claims that he was threatened with more than just not being part of the graduation ceremony.

A careful statement of his position is found chiefly in his many articles in the Jesuit quarterly Theological Studies.

Admin, just copy and paste articles from previous seasons to save yourself time because it's the same position we find ourselves in every year folks.

In an excellent article posted by ESPN, Vegas oddsmakers explain the precarious position they find themselves in.

never waste CAPITAL LETTERS on an article about Chambers at this juncture... I still can't believe that no one from management has ever explained why such a frugal club spent so much money on him in the first place... we haggle for months and years with clubs for players who could have a monumental impact on the very future of our club but somehow we found $ 16 million for someone who couldn't regularly crack a Southampton lineup (very fishy)... don't get me wrong, I like what he showed at times last season in Middlesbourogh but from the handful of games I watched him play I still have some serious questions about his consistency as a back - line player in the EPL; as such he should prove himself on loan for another season, making sure that he goes to a team that wants him in the starting 11... bottom line, let's not get bogged down with the semantics of peripheral players and focus on the real task at hand = figure out who the hell is going to be our starting 11 for the foreseeable future, which means getting contracts signed, getting rid of a lot of deadwood and bringing in talented players into the positions which truly need upgrading... the rest is just unnecessary noise

As a slight variation on that article, we went through every position group and found the best overall team units at each.

I recently wrote an article discussing whether Liverpool had found themselves a new left - back and compared Andy Robertson's stats to his team - mate and rival for the position Alberto Moreno.

You'll find articles about breastfeeding basics like positioning and latch, but also about various other breastfeeding - related issues that mothers may face as baby gets older.

The point of everything I just wrote is that, I sense a generalisation tone from this article that if a person decides to do a PhD, then they must be already heavily considering a job in academia; and that having to find jobs elsewhere is considered the «alternatives» and some kind of failure of not getting a teaching position in a university.

An article entitled «Faculty Diversity When Jobs Are Scarce: Debunking the Myths,» written by Daryl G. Smith for the 6 September 1996 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, backed this writer up by asserting that many minority Ph.D.'s insist that they must struggle to find positions.

Explaining the phenomenon, the article noted that it is so difficult for scientists to find a permanent position in Germany that those below the age of 40 are often forced to take short - term employment without any financial or residential stability.

Faculty members protected by tenure kept their jobs, but mathematicians who had not yet attained it found themselves facing sharply heightened competition, which produced an «unprecedented 12 percent unemployment rate for new American mathematics PhDs» and «a dramatic decrease in the probability of obtaining a position in research universities,» the article says.