2011 1st Year Summer Recruitment – Toronto

Recruitment for 2011 first year summer positions will be conducted in accordance with the Law Society of Upper Canada procedures.  Click here for details.

Our numbers vary from year to year depending on who we meet, but in recent summers we have hired from 3-5 first year law students.

Applications are due by Wednesday, January 19, 2011.

Applications should include a cover letter, resume and copies of undergraduate and law school transcripts.  Official transcripts are only required for those students ultimately hire.  Please include your email address with your contact information since a great deal of our correspondence with you is by email.  Reference letters and writing samples are not required.

Applications should be sent to:

Nancy Stitt
Director, Student Programs
Bay Adelaide Centre
333 Bay Street, Suite 3400
Toronto, ON  M5H 2S7

2011 2nd Year Summer Recruitment - Toronto

Recruitment for 2011 second year summer positions will be conducted in accordance with the Law Society of Upper Canada Procedures.
Our numbers vary from year to year depending on who we meet.  In recent years, we have hired the following number of second year students:

Number of second year students hired for Summer 2010: 15
Number of second year students hired for Summer 2009: 11
Number of second year students hired for Summer 2008: 18
Number of second year students hired for Summer 2007: 14
Number of second year students hired for Summer 2006: 14

Applications are due by Friday, September 10th, 2010.

Applications should include a cover letter, resume, and copies of undergraduate and law school transcripts.  Reference letters and writing samples are not required.  Please include your email address with your application since a great deal of our correspondence with you is by email.

We are pleased to accept applications through the on-line portal, if available at your school, or by hard copy.  Applications should be addressed to the attention of:

Nancy Stitt
Director, Student Programs
Goodmans LLP
Bay Adelaide Centre
333 Bay Street, Suite 3400
Toronto, ON  M5H 2S7

If you have not received an acknowledgement of receipt of your application by Friday, September 17th, 2010, please contact our Student Programs Co-ordinator, Inez Bertao at ibertao@goodmans.ca.

In-firm interviews are available to students from all law schools and we encourage all students to apply, even if we are not conducting on-campus interviews at your law school.

On Campus Interviews will be conducted at the following schools:

University of New Brunswick - September 27
Dalhousie - September 28
McGill - September 29
Western - October 4
Windsor - October 5
Osgoode - October 7 and 8
Queen’s - October 12
Ottawa - October 13
Toronto - October 14 and 15

Phonecall Day (the day we call to schedule interviews in accordance with Law Society Procedures), is Friday, October 22nd.
We will email you after OCIs, and by Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 at the latest to let you know whether we will be calling you on Friday, October 22nd to schedule an interview.

Interviews at the firm will be conducted between Monday, November 1st and Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010, in accordance with the Law Society Recruitment Procedures.  Interviews are typically 1.5 hours long.

2011 / 2012 Articling Recruitment – Toronto

We have completed our hiring for the 2011/2012 articling term and will not be hiring any additional students.  For a list of our 2011/2012 articling students, please see our Student Directory.