Career Builders: Students

National's 2009 Law Student Issue Now Online: Check out our special edition for Canada's 10,000 law students!

• Big Country: Canada’s smaller communities are in growing need of new lawyers.
  Will you be among them?
• Alternative careers for new lawyers: life beyond the big firm, the small firm or any kind of firm.
• Hanging out your shingle: the skills and knowledge you need to run a law business, in a law firm or in a sole practice.
• From the Editor: Get ready to enter an unprecedented legal marketplace at full speed.
• Not Quite Contempt: what law firms are looking for in today’s articling students. Well, not really.

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Helping Build Human Rights Law Abroad
As the young lawyers involved in the CBA Young Lawyers International Program in 2008-2009 prepared to return home, they were asked to sum up their internship experiences. Here are some of their reflections.

Graduating Into a Recession
It will probably be harder for you to find a job than it was for people who graduated even two years ago. It’s unfortunate and unfair, but it’s also life, and the sooner you adjust, the better your chances of success will be.

Great LEAP Forward
The University of Windsor’s Faculty of Law is stepping up to the thin blue line with its Law Enforcement Accountability Project (LEAP), a unique student-led institute to provide research on police accountability and racial profiling.

Inside Story
Few law grads get hired as corporate counsel straight out of school, but there are some considerations that can increase the likelihood of getting hired in-house down the line.

Legal Journals Cope with the Arrival of the Digital Age
With their traditional printing-and-mailing model under heavy stress, Canada’s prestigious law journals face flourishing competition from online content that can be vetted, edited, peer-reviewed and posted much faster than print.

Law School: The Real World
You might be that rare law student who knows he or she wants to start a solo practice upon graduation. Or you might be on our last year of law school and afraid you’ll have no other option but to go solo. In either case, you may have a lot of unanswered questions on how to get started.