McLeod & Company LLP has a long history of hiring and retaining articling students who ultimately mature to join the partnership.  We prefer to grow from within, and it is generally our intention to retain those students we hire for articles in the hopes they will stay with us throughout their career.  A number of current partners articled with the firm, and they have spent their entire legal careers with McLeod & Company LLP.

A legal career is, in reality, a never-ending learning curve, so it is understood by our partners and associates alike that a certain amount of their time will be spent on instruction and assisting of our students.  We welcome the chance to shape new legal minds and recognize that it is a valuable investment in everyone’s future.

The articling program at McLeod & Company LLP follows a more informal structure as students are moved through our different departments in rotations of roughly 3 month intervals.  Their workload is generally supervised by their principal, and when they move into a department outside of their principal’s area of practice, every attempt is made to identify a departmental contact for them to follow up with when they have questions.  More often than not the lawyer from whom they are receiving work is more than happy to help them with any difficulties they may encounter.  It is also common for work from one department to carry over into a student’s rotation through another, so students often have quite a diverse array of files on their plate at once. 

In recent years McLeod & Company LLP has hired three students who usually begin work around the start of June or July depending on everyone’s schedule.  It is our intention this year to hire three articling students.  If you are interested in applying for articles with our firm, we look forward to your expressions of interest and would ask that you forward your resume, covering letter, and formal copy of your current law school transcripts to our South office location, to the attention of This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .  For articles beginning in the spring/summer of 2009 we must receive your information on or before May 15, 2008.

Thank you for your interest in our firm.