Queen’s University Law School

Career Development Office has kindly provided this listing. 

Super Important Note

These dates are provided for general information only - for complete accuracy,

you must confirm all dates with the Career Development Director at your

Law School

SEPTEMBER 

“We are what we repeatedly o, Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle”

·     Confirm deadlines for summer, articling applications in various cities and provinces by contacting your Career Development Director at your Law School

·     2nd year Toronto and Vancouver summer job applications due

OCTOBER

“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”

·     East/West summer job applications

·     On-campus interviews held for 2nd year summer jobs in Toronto

·     Interview week for 2nd year summer jobs in Vancouver

NOVEMBER

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain”

·     East/West week interviews for summer jobs for 1st and 2nd year in Alberta

DECEMBER

“The heights by great men were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

·     3rd years – Law Society of Upper Canada - Licensing Program applications due

·     clerkship applications may be due for courts outside Ontario

JANUARY

“Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study, and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience”. Francis Bacon

·     1st years Toronto summer job applications due

·     2nd and 3rd years - clerkship applications may be due for courts in Ontario and BC

FEBRUARY

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

 – Ralph Waldo Emerson

·     1st year summer job interviews held in Toronto

·     Ottawa summer job applications due

·     Check for articling deadlines in provinces other than Ontario

·     Law School Career Days (February and March – confirm with Career Development Directors)

·     Clerkship applications due for Ontario Superior Court

MARCH

“Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms”. – Samuel Johnson

·     Public Interest Careers Fair held in Toronto

APRIL

“You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give”

·     Employers in Ontario (except Toronto) may have articling application deadlines any time after mid-May

MAY

“There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it is easy.”.—Anonymous

·     Articling interviews in Ottawa, London and Hamilton

·     Make a list of all the fun things you want to do over the summer celebrate!