Second-Year Summer Student Program
Second-year summer students have the choice of working within one or two practice areas during their summer at
the Firm. If a student wants to do two rotations, we would schedule the rotations as follows: the first
rotation would be from May to June, and the second rotation would be from July to August.
The practice areas in which you can do a rotation include:
Blakes will also consider requests from students to spend part of their summer with another organization through a program sponsored by their law school or with a law firm in a foreign jurisdiction.
In each rotation, students are assigned a mentor. The mentor's role is to ensure that students receive interesting and varied assignments. During their rotation, the students will work with their mentor, as well as with other lawyers in the practice group.
There are regularly scheduled meetings with the summer students called "coffee talks" to discuss the students workload, capacity and other matters of interest to the students.
Upon arrival at Blakes in early May, students attend an orientation session that introduces them to the Firm and its resources.
We also provide a comprehensive professional development program. This focuses on exposing students to different practice areas and helps them develop substantive skills.
We review our summer students twice during the course of the summer. Our goal in our evaluation system is to help each student develop their skills as lawyers in training.
Social events are held over the course of the summer to ensure that students get to know one another as well as lawyers at the Firm. Summer social events have included: a student/mentor dinner, attending a Blue Jays game, a go-carting event, a pub night, a dinner at the home of a partner and, an AGO tour and dinner.
The application and interview process for second-year summer students is governed by Law Society rules. We conduct on-campus interviews across Canada in the fall. For advice on the application and interview process, please refer to the menu.
How to Apply
Please send your application including a cover letter, résumé, law school and undergraduate transcripts, and a list of your upper-year courses through the student portal site.
Your cover letter should be addressed to:
Kari Abrams
Director of Student Recruitment & Development
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
199 Bay Street
Suite 2800, Commerce Court West
Toronto ON M5L 1A9
Canada
Tel: (416) 863-4194
Fax: (416) 863-2653
email: kari.abrams@blakes.com
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