Zarek Taylor Grossman Hanrahan LLP abides by the Law Society of Upper Canada’s guidelines for firms in Toronto in the recruitment of articling students.
Your Application Should Include:
- A cover letter indicating the position for which you are applying
- Your resume
- Copies of your undergraduate and law school transcripts (be prepared to provide an official transcript at an interview, if requested)
- Any reference letters (optional)
- A brief writing sample (optional)
*Please ensure that all you application material is in one PDF file
*Please address you application to: [email protected]
WHO YOU ARE
We are seeking articling students with a strong academic foundation, as well as a strong desire and
aptitude for advocacy. Please submit your resume, together with transcripts in one PDF document,
to the attention of the Articling Student Committee at [email protected]. Please quote “2025-2026 Articling Student Application” in the subject line of your email application.
Articling Students: please submit your application no later than June 28th, 2024 at 5p.
OVERVIEW
Since inception, Zarek Taylor Grossman Hanrahan LLP has experienced dynamic growth and development. Because we view our articling students as the prime source for our firm’s future growth, we place significant emphasis on our training programmes for our students to develop their legal experience and skills.
Ours is a small fast-paced firm. We do not have the same hierarchy for student assignments seen at other firms. Instead, our students get hands-on practical experience, direct file handling responsibility, and direct client contact. Our students also get opportunities to appear in court and put their advocacy training to work.
In addition, our students get the opportunity to attend with and assist senior lawyers on trials and tribunal proceedings, and participate in assisting lawyers on these files from start to finish. Our students work directly with senior partners, and indeed, with all levels of lawyers within our office during their course of theri articles.
CLIENT CONTACT
We have confidence in our students. With supervision, our students handle their own Small Claims files in direct consultation with the firm’s clients.
A big part of our firm’s success rests on firm-client interaction. As such, our students will meet and work with our clients throughout. From assisting our lawyers on larger, more complex files, to running smaller files, client relationships are important at every stage.
Students can expect to meet clients during client meetings, mock cross-examinations, client events, discoveries, trials, mediations, etc.
MENTORING
All lawyers in the firm, from senior partners to junior associates, are fully approachable and welcome an opportunity to participate in the training and legal education of our students. We maintain and “open-door” policy throughout the office to provide guidance and direction to students, not only on particular file matters, but also on general practice matters. We respect, listen to, and give out students the chance to maximize their abilities.
Our current Articling Committee consists of several of our firm partners who act as our firms articling Principals.
HIRE BACK
Our willingness to hire our students as lawyers is not based on the volume of work at the firm. We will find a place for a student who has exhibited both talent and drive.
COMPENSATION
We pay our students a competitive salary comparable to those paid by large metropolitan firms. We also provide articling students with a dental, health and life insurance plan, and a paid vacation.
DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING
As a Zarek Taylor Grossman Hanrahan LLP articling student, you will receive comprehensive, practical exposure to our practice. You may assist lawyers in preparation for trials, mediation, arbitration and other hearings, and you may accompany them into court. Under supervision, you will conduct Small Claims Court litigation and appear frequently before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on motions. You will be exposed to other practical aspects of our diversified litigation practice by meeting and dealing with clients and other lawyers, drafting pleadings, motion materials, factums and memoranda of law. Since there is no formal rotation, students get a chance to have a breadth of experience, from involvement in big files to small files, plaintiff and defence, accident benefit, property and tort.
We also promote ongoing training through weekly seminars.
SOCIAL
Student enthusiasm and talents are always welcome at our firms social and client events, including:
- Annual Client Seminar
- Summer party
- Holiday party
- Associate Retreat
OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION
Zarek Taylor Grossman Hanrahan LLP maintains a social media presence through our firms website, and such vehicles as Instagram and LinkedIn. We believe strongly in communication with our clients and our peers in the legal community, and we maintain a blog to share our views on developing trends in the areas in which our lawyers practice.
We invite our students to feel that they should contribute, for example by writing articles or participating in such things as research that will be submitted for publication outside the firm.
*Please reach out to [email protected]
