Student Program: Toronto

Mentoring

Career planning is addressed in part through a mentoring program for our students and lawyers in their early years of practice. Your mentors will offer you professional guidance and assistance throughout your summer and articles, and help you integrate into the firm. Mentors are great resources and can be very valuable in helping you through your transition from a law student to a student-at-law. Mentors are also asked to participate in your performance reviews.

Summer students are assigned one mentor, typically a junior associate who remembers what it was like to be in your shoes. Articling students are assigned a junior and a senior mentor. The junior mentor is a mid- to senior-level associate, who will also act as your Law Society of Upper Canada principal; the senior mentor is a partner.

We choose mentors who we believe recognize that frequent informal contact is the most important component of the relationship. We also plan formal mentor/mentee events throughout the course of the summer and the year.