Careers
Articling Students
Articling at Rogers Partners LLP means becoming part of a team. Our doors are open, our atmosphere is friendly, and our approach ensures that you'll be active and involved.
Articling is the most important first step in your legal career. Equally, we believe that our students play an important role in our firm's success. That's why we strive to make the articling experience both enjoyable and rewarding, so that our students emerge with confidence, and with all the skills needed for a successful litigation career.
We offer a professional and collegial environment that can be expected in a smaller law firm, yet also provide the expertise and quality legal services you might expect to find at a larger firm.
As an articling student at Rogers Partners LLP, you can expect a challenging, rewarding and educational articling experience.
Our articling program is different, because we designed it to provide a hands-on experience. We encourage our students to become involved and to actively participate in litigation matters as soon as they are ready. We encourage them to attend court, and to have direct contact with clients. Our students frequently handle and attend motions on their own, and they're expected to deal independently with small claims court files.
For more complex litigation files, our students play an important supporting role. They conduct legal research and draft various documents, facta and memoranda.
We rotate our students throughout the office during their articling term, to ensure that they can interact with all members of our firm. By doing so, students can observe various styles of litigation, methods of practice and personalities. However, because our predominant practice area relates to insurance defence litigation, there are no formal rotations.
Because we believe that the articling term should be primarily educational, we do not have targets for billable hours for students. We expect our students to gain a great litigation experience. Our goal is not to detract from that experience by focusing on billable hour targets.
Of course, there are limits to what articling students are permitted to do in accordance with the Rules of the Law Society of Upper Canada. However, to supplement the students' direct hands-on experience, all of our lawyers, from our junior associates to our senior partners, encourage students to attend with them at various stages of litigation matters.
By attending to observe pre-trial conferences, mediations, examinations for discovery, client meetings, witness interviews, administrative hearings, trials and appeals, our students are given the opportunity to observe various litigation styles and techniques. Their practical articling experience is enhanced.
Our articling students can expect to be welcomed as members of our team and contribute to the success of our firm, while working in a busy, professional and collegial environment.
We expect our students to begin their articles with an eagerness to learn and to become productive members of our team. Our students are expected to develop their skills as litigators and advocates, and to actively participate in our litigation matters.
We expect our students to take advantage of the fast-paced litigation environment and to make their articling term an ongoing learning process in preparation for their own practice, once they are called to the bar.
Our firm offers students experience and training in real litigation. Our lawyers share a passion for litigation. By offering advocacy training, demonstration and actual hands-on practical litigation experience, we hope to mould our students into effective advocates who share our passion for litigation.
The hiring process
Our hiring process is in accordance with the recruitment procedures for the City of Toronto outlined by the Law Society of Upper Canada.
Generally, we hire two or three students each year. We typically interview 20-25 students during the designated interview week.
When we consider an applicant for an interview, there is no doubt that academic performance is important. However, we also know that academic performance alone cannot predict the best articling student or future litigator.
Our students should have a commitment and interest in civil litigation, and have good research skills. More importantly, we are looking for students who will fit well in the collegial, yet professional environment of our firm, with the hope that our students will become future lawyers at Rogers Partners LLP.
Contact information
If you are interested in applying for a position at Rogers Partners LLP, we ask that your application include a complete resume and covering letter, as well as copies of your official transcripts from both law school and your undergraduate studies.
Please submit applications to:
Anita M. Varjacic
Rogers Partners LLP
100 Wellington Street West
Suite 500, P.O. Box 255
Toronto, Ontario M5K 1J5
Applications may also be transmitted via email to:
anita.varjacic@rogerspartners.com
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