Sentences with phrase «many articling positions»

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.

The number of graduating law students has increasingly outstripped available articling positions in recent years, and the breakup of prominent Bay Street firm Heenan Blaikie has insiders wondering which will be the next big firm to fall.

In our article Positioning Charter Schools in Los Angeles: Diversity of Form and Homogeneity of Effects we examined the three most prominent types of charters serving elementary grades between 2002 and 2008: independent start - ups, independent conversions, and affiliated conversions.

Publishing a travel article positions you as an authority on a place, and as such, it seems irresponsible to do so without ever speaking to a local.

I posted my previous list in 2013 and it was very well received — and most of the listed travel blogs have received a regular stream of visitors as a result of the previous list article holding the top ranking article position in Google for the «australian travel blogs» and «new zealand travel blogs» keywords.

Most of the listed travel blogs have received a regular stream of visitors as a result of the previous list article holding the top ranking article position in Google for the «australian travel blogs» and «new zealand travel blogs» keywords.

Legal Aid was mentioned, and if I recall it comprised of only 1 - 2 % of all articling positions in Ontario.

-- eliminate the third year of law school and replace it with an articling term — have articling students pay that year's tuition to the law society instead of the law schools — have the law society compensate lawyers for taking articling students — watch the number of articling positions explode

The wide variety of types of articling positions defies the ability to qualitatively assess whether articling is actually achieving its goals.

In 2008, the LSUC recommendations were overwhelming in favour of retaining articling as part of the licensing process, and focused on increasing the number of articling positions.

The labour market for articling positions is not necessarily the measure of the experiential training capacity of the profession

In particular, with the introduction of the LPP / PPD program, there is a means for overcoming the shortage of articling positions.

The prospects of articling positions and future associate employment are indeed grim with even the Crown Attorney offices on extended hiring freezes.

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

While the LSUC has undertaken numerous efforts to boost the number of available articling positions, the default logic remains primarily market - based in the sense that private lawyers who are eligible to serve as principals (and it is private lawyers who make up the vast bulk of principals) are entitled to decide for themselves, on the basis of their own private economic calculations, whether to devote any of their money, time and other practise resources to experiential training.

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.

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.

My husband attends TRU law and will begin his articling position at a large firm in May.

The fact that there are more graduates than articling positions is a debate for another time.

Ontario has the unique position of having more applicants for articling positions than available positions.

And yet, outside the large and medium law firms, these same private lawyers apparently can not themselves afford to offer as many articling positions as we have willing law grads.

But despite all of this, not a single additional articling position was created.

In Canada there aren't enough articling positions for the students already in school, and current law schools are continuing to increase their intake in order to make more money for cash - strapped universities.

With the substantial increase of candidates and insufficient growth in articling positions over the last 15 years, the LPP was added as an alternative to articling several years ago.

Meanwhile, the legal clinic system isn't even funded sufficiently to have one articling position in every clinic and governments have generally failed to shoulder their fair share of the lawyer - training burden.

Concerns over a two - tier system, where those who end up in the LPP will be considered second - rate compared to students who were able to secure articling positions, is bad enough.

It was this gap between the supply of and demand for articling positions that was the impetus for the 2012 Articling Task Force which recommended the establishment of the Law Practice Program (LPP) as an alternative to articling.

During this period, larger firms cut back the number of articling positions.

It is also the case that, likely given the intense competition for articling positions, some of the increased number of articling positions are less attractive and even exploitative positions, including poorly or unpaid positions.

«It's going to help prepare me for my [articling position] with The Office of the Children's Lawyer in Toronto starting in August,» she says.

Articling positions would abound.

The first was to do nothing and accept that the number of articling positions practically limited the number of new lawyers each year.

Important from the perspective of both access to legal services and access to articling positions, the new plan is expected to improve availability of composite articles, secondments, and shorter - duration hires for firms.

In any event, while the number of articling positions has substantially increased (to approximately 1,950 by 2016), there has been a gap for some time between the number of licensing candidates and the number of articling positions.

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.

It would be unfair to qualified candidates who can not find articles (because the market doesn't generate sufficient articling positions) to say that they can not be licensed.

Imagine a young, Indigenous law student who has overcome significant adversity, obtained an increasingly expensive legal education, landed a scarce articling position, all despite historic and systemic disadvantages.

«I turned down an articling position because I felt this [LPP] would just be a lot better for me.

«I spoke to some of my colleagues who graduated with me who went to big law firms or other government jobs and, compared to their articling positions, while some of them got really great opportunities, some said their job was just following a lawyer around doing photocopying, research and they never had the experience I did.»

He was then asked the same question when he applied for law firm articling positions in 2002 and 2003.

I think some articling positions don't get the broad exposure or training on running their own firm.»

While the number of articling positions has significantly increased, the number of applicants has increased even more quickly.

This change was caused to a large degree by the large number of law school graduates who have been unable to secure an articling position, a requirement for admission to the practice of law.

The scattering of articling positions across the province means challenges of geography will resurface for the couple.

Like D'Cunha, she turned down an articling position she had been offered — with a family law sole practitioner — to pursue the LPP instead.

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.

«I definitely think not releasing the remediation framework until March 14 caused a lot of uncertainty, especially for 1L students who are really fearful of what this will mean for being able to access summer job opportunities and articling positions in the future.»

The placement will then take place at a law firm, corporate in - house legal team, non-governmental organization, or «anywhere that qualifies as an articling position,» said Bentley.

That means there are fewer articling positions available, despite a greater need.

Today's Globe and Mail features an articling discussing what is being called a «crisis» in articling positions,