66 first years hired all-in-all; 17% more than last year
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This year’s 1L Recruit took place during reading week, February 19–21. Overall, Toronto employers hired 66 students; 23 of those were from U of T and 21 were from Osgoode. The hiring numbers are about 17% higher than last year’s, when employers hired 57 students.
Some firms that participated last year did not participate this year. Bennett Jones LLP did not participate in the 1L Recruit this year as they hired more students than expected from the 2L process, according to Christopher McKenna, the Manager, Student Recruitment and Programs for Ontario at Bennett Jones (Bennett Jones advertises in Ultra Vires).
It is important to note that the 1L Recruit only makes up a small fraction of first-year summer hiring. 60 first-year students were hired through the Faculty Hiring process. Others may work at law firms that did not take part in the formal recruit or at jobs unrelated to law. Some, of course, will choose to spend their 1L summer nowhere near anything law-related; that may, in the long run, be for the better.
Note that JD numbers in the below chart include non-JD/MBA joint-degree candidates.
