BarTalk April 2005
Volume 17, Number 2

Consider taking an articling student this year

Have you ever considered bringing an articled student into your firm? If so, now might be the time. A number of high calibre third-year law students are still seeking 2005-2006 articling positions. The UBC and UVic Career Services offices are ready to assist lawyers who can offer articling positions by answering questions, posting positions and advertising to students.

For a law student, articling is a critical stage of legal training, and a mandatory step on the path to call and admission. Students are eager to put their skills to work and to experience the practice of law under expert guidance. Articles offer that opportunity.

Students can perform useful and billable work that benefits a firm or legal department. For a lawyer who serves as principal to a student, that assistance is valuable. But principals can also draw satisfaction from the important contribution they make. Principals help develop their students into good lawyers through guidance, training and mentorship. This benefits not only those students, but the profession as a whole.

To become a principal, you must be a practising lawyer in good standing with the Law Society with seven years of practice experience. For more on the qualifications of principals and the articling relationship, please see Law Society Rules 2-27 through 2-46. See also the current articling agreement and checklist, found under “Licensing & Membership” at www.lawsociety.bc.ca. If you are not certain if you qualify as a principal, please contact Lesley Small, Manager, Credentials & Licensing at the Law Society of B.C. at 604 669-2533 or lsmall@lsbc.org.

University of British Columbia
Faculty of Law Career Services and Alumni Relations
Judy Pozsgay, Co-Director
Nadia Myerthall, Co-Director
E-mail: pozsgay@law.ubc.ca or myerthall@law.ubc.ca
Tel: 604-822-6350 (Judy) or 604-827-5052 (Nadia)
Fax: 604-822-9486

University of Victoria
Jennifer Moroskat, Career Development Officer
E-mail: moroskat@uvic.ca
Tel: 250-472-4719
Fax: 250-721-6390
Website: cdo.law.uvic.ca
(Employers can post positions directly on this site.)

This article was published in the April 2005 issue of BarTalk and is subject to the copyright by the British Columbia Branch of the Canadian Bar Association, 2005, all rights reserved.