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2L Summer 2024 Recruitment Guidelines for Winnipeg
2L Summer Recruit - Guidelines for Summer 2024
Articling Recruitment Guidelines for Winnipeg
2025_2026 Articling Recruitment Guidelines TBA
The Career Development Office is located in 306A on the 3rd Floor of Robson Hall.
The Career Development Office is dedicated to alerting students to upcoming national events, and to providing job postings for articling, summer and clerkship positions. In addition, we maintain postings for international and volunteer opportunities.
Through our Career Development Office, we offer workshops, seminars and individualized consultations where students can discuss their career goals and obtain guidance on how to achieve them. We provide one-on-one resume and cover letter review, as well as offer mock interviews. In addition, we have held Practice Interview Night, and networking events which allows students to connect in with local firms as well as various government agencies in a casual setting.
As an additional service for students interested in pursuing careers outside Manitoba, we host on-campus interviews for out-of-province firms.
CURRENT NEWS FOR EMPLOYERS AND STUDENTS
Please note: Our Job Board is password protected for students currently registered at the University of Manitoba/Faculty of Law
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WINNIPEG
2L Summer 2024 Student Recruitment Dates:
- Application Deadline: Friday, October 6th, 2023 by 12:00pm CDT (Noon)
- Call Day: Thursday, October 19th, 2023 between 12:00PM and 2:00pm CDT
- Interview Period: Monday October 23rd to Tuesday, October 31st, 2023
- Offer Call Day: Thursday November 2nd, 2023, between 12:00 - 2:00pm CDT
CALGARY
2L summer 2024 student recruitment dates:
- July 24, 2023 Vilawportal opens
August 21st, Application Deadline for UofM Students by 11:59PM CDT
September 1st, 2023 Vilawportal closes
September 13th, 2023 OCI interview date for UofM Students
In - firm interview period - October 2nd - October 6th, 2023
TORONTO
2024 / 2025 articling student recruitment dates:
- Application Deadline: Friday, June 30th, 2023 5:00PM ET
- Call Day: Friday July 21st, 2023 8:00AM ET
- Interview Period: Monday, August 14, 2023 at 8 am - Wednesday, August 16, 2023, at 3 pm ET
- No contact period: Wednesday, August 16, 2023, at 3 pm - Wednesday, August 16, 2023, at 5 pm ET
- Offer Call Day: Wednesday, August 16, 2023, at 5 pm - Offers must be open until at least Thursday, August 17, 2023, at 5 pm ET
2L summer 2024 student recruitment dates:
- June 1, 2023 at noon ET: Employer registration deadline
- July 24, 2023 at 5pm ET: Student application deadline (per the Law Society of Ontario)
- August 21 at noon ET: Deadline for employers to submit their student candidate list
- August 31 by 5:00 pm ET: Date by which employers will receive their interview schedule
- September 1-8, 2023: Time period for employers to contact students with platform details, technical issue contact and any change to interviewers
- September 12, 2023 from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm ET: OCIs
VANCOUVER
2024 / 2025 articling student recruitment dates:
- Application Deadline: Friday, June 30, 2023 at 11:59PM PT
- Intention to Call Emails: Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 8AM PT - Thursday, July 13, 2023 at 8PM PT
- Interview Call Day: Friday, July 14, 2023 at 8AM PT
- Blackout Period: Monday, July 31, 2023 - Sunday, August 13, 2023
- Interview Period: August 14 - 16, 2023
- Offer Call Day: Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 8AM PT (open until Friday, August 18, 2022 at 8AM PT)
2L summer 2024 student recruitment dates:
- Application Deadline: Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 11:59PM PT
- UofM/USASK OCI interview date, September 27th, 2023
- Blackout Period: Tuesday, October 2, 2023 - Sunday, October 22, 2023
- Intention to Call Emails: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 8AM PT - Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at 8PM PT
- Interview Call Day: Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 8AM PT
- Interview Week: October 23 - 25, 2023
- Job Offer Call Day: Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 8AM PT (open until Friday, October 27, 2023 at 8AM
BC MINISTRY OF ATTORNEY GENERAL
2L summer 2024 student recruitment dates: ( timeline is approximate)
- Applications open: July 17, 2023; 8:00am
Applications close: August 30, 2023; 11:59pm
Application Screening: September 1 – 6, 2023
Written Interview Invites Sent: September 7, 2023
Written Interviews: September 11 – 12, 2023 (multiple time slots available)
Oral Interview Invites Sent: September 15, 2023
Oral Interviews (LSB): September 19 – 22, 2023(multiple time slots available)
Reference Checks: September 26, 2023 (References must be available on this day)
Offers go out: September 27 – 30, 2023
Regrets go out: September 30 – October 3, 2023
Vilawportal:
viRecruitPortal (viglobalcloud.com)
Career Development Coordinator
Lisa Griffin’s background includes working at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax NS in Student Services, supporting and assisting students in Accessibility Services and Career/Counselling Services. Lisa moved to Winnipeg in 2013 and began working at the University Of Manitoba supporting and assisting students in the Counselling and Career Centre. In 2014, Lisa began working at Robson Hall/Faculty of Law in the Career Development Office.
Lisa is a graduate of Dalhousie University and has always been passionate about working with students and providing the ultimate student experience.
You can reach Lisa by email at:
lisa.griffin@umanitoba.ca and/or cdo@umanitoba.ca
Telephone: 204. 474.7932
Job Board
You require a password to access the Job Board. Please email Lisa Griffin to request this information.
Guidelines/Timelines for Summer and Articling
Manitoba
http://www.lawsociety.mb.ca
2021-2022 Recruitment Guidelines RH
Alberta
https://www.lawsociety.ab.ca/
Saskatchewan
https://www.lawsociety.sk.ca/
Ontario
http://www.lsuc.on.ca/Articling/
Ottawa
https://www.lsuc.on.ca/
British Columbia
https://www.lawsociety.bc.ca
Atlantic Provinces
http://cmla.org/
N.W.T
http://www.lawsociety.nt.ca/
Yukon
http://www.lawsocietyyukon.com/
Nunavut
http://lawsociety.nu.ca/
WHAT ROBSON HALL CAN DO FOR YOU
Free job-posting service
The Career Development Office invites your firm to use our free job posting service to advertise student position(s) for summering, articling, clerking, internships, research or similar types of legal employment.
Let us know about your opportunity
You may supply us with a posting containing the relevant information about the position in a document and send to us via email
What to include in a job posting
Brief descriptions of:
- the job, duties and responsibilities; the number of positions available (if more than one)
- the employer, practice areas, size of firm/type of organization
- the firm, details about your firm, i.e. culture, support services, amenities, notable cases/members (or links to where that information can be found on your website)
- the skills, qualities, and year of study you are looking for in a student (e.g. 1st, 2nd, 3rd year or graduate)
Application procedure
- where to send, to whom, and how (mail, email, upload to platform e.g. Vilawportal)
- what to include (cover letter, resume, transcripts (official or copy), references, writing sample)
- the deadline for applications
- salary
- benefits (e.g. Friday’s off for CPLED/PREP training or fees paid for the CPLED/PREP program, or Law Society practicing fees paid, group insurance benefits, health, dental)
Please note that information about your firm and a description of the articling program (if applicable) will be of great interest to students considering whether or not to apply.
Our Process for Advertising Your Opportunity
Job postings are made available to our students through the following means:
- Online, through the Robson Hall Career Development Office website
- Via email to all students in the law school
- General announcement at the commencement of Career Services Workshops
- On our weekly Enews
*Please note our students no longer have individual mail boxes.
Brochures and Other Information
If you wish to make information about your organization available, you could provide us with an information piece(s) or brochure(s) on your firm or organization and we will make it available to students through our Career Services Office.
Other Opportunities
The Career Development Office works with organizations to host a number of events throughout the year to provide students and organizations with opportunities to meet each other. Your firm can participate in the events of your choice. Typical events include:
On-Campus Interviews – An On-Campus Interview Reception have been held to allow employers from other provinces to get to know Robson Hall students in a relaxed atmosphere. On-Campus interviews are held annually.
Firm Tours – Tours have been held in Vancouver and Toronto. Contact the Career Development Office if you would like to facilitate Robson Hall at your firm.
Career Workshops – participate as a guest speaker or panelist. You may also facilitate a networking event of your choice (e.g. Wine and Cheese, or Dinner). Contact the Career Development Office if you would like additional information on any of the above events.
See our events calendar for dates
Promotion Across Canada
Other Law Schools
Each Canadian law school has a “Career Development Office”, and each of those offices work collaboratively to ensure Canadian law students have access to job information from other jurisdictions. In that regard, a Career Development Office in another province will often promote jobs from other jurisdictions to their student body upon request. There are students at law schools outside of Manitoba who wish to come back to Manitoba for work. Accordingly, if you would like your posting to also reach those out-of-province students, our Career Development Office will distribute your opportunity to other law schools on your behalf.
NALP Canada Directory
NALP Canada is an organization that is dedicated to facilitating the professional development of law students and lawyers in Canada, and that works with Canadian law schools across Canada. It has developed a Canadian Directory of Legal Employers (CDLE), which a user-friendly, online searchable directory of Canadian legal employers with summer student, articling and associate positions. You can learn more about the directory by visiting www.nalpcanada.com. The NALP Canadian Directory of Legal Employers (CDLE), offers an efficient, cost-effective way to tell your organization’s story to law students, lawyers and law schools. The CDLE is freely available to students and job seekers online at www.nalpcanada.com – note for firms 10 lawyers or less, there is no cost to register.
The Career Development Office offers workshops between September and April each year with our main focus being your success in obtaining your career goals!
We put on workshops that are important to job success. Our advice is that you should attend ALL Workshops.
* PLEASE SEE THE EVENTs CALENDAR FOR MORE INFORMATION AND DETAILS ON UPCOMING WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS.*