Articling

At KRMC, we take particular interest in our articling students. We view our students as the foundation of the firms future, and the ranks of KRMC are filled with associates and partners who started with the firm as articling students.

KRMC's students enjoy the benefits of a medium-sized law firm, with the resources necessary to go head-to-head with many of the larger downtown firms. We maintain a collegial working environment, while providing exciting hands-on opportunities that are simply not available in some of the larger law firms. Opportunities such as carriage of small claims files, conducting small claims trials, client interaction, attending at Superior Court trials with experienced counsel, attending at examinations, mediations and settlement conferences, and drafting key legal documents. Direct, hands-on experience. You will work with experienced practitioners who help you learn along the way, challenging you to demonstrate your capabilities, to provide a top-notch articling experience.

KRMC offers two articling streams to its students.

First is our general stream. If you choose to spend your articling year in our general stream, you will primarily work on matters across our various litigation practice groups, other than our personal injury/insurance litigation group, with the majority of the work focussed on creditors rights litigation. Students who article in our general stream develop a thorough, practical understanding of the many facets of the civil litigation process. Occasionally, students in the general stream may also have the opportunity to assist lawyers with corporate, real estate, family, and wills and estates matters.

We also offer a personal injury/insurance litigation stream, in which our students concentrate their full articling term in our personal injury/insurance litigation department. If you choose this stream, you will work with our personal injury/insurance litigation lawyers, their specialty clerks and support staff, and develop an in-depth knowledge and understanding of personal injury/insurance law and litigation.

If you decide to apply to KRMC, we encourage you to indicate your desired articling stream in your application.

Our students are usually hired during the summer before third year of law school, through the articling recruitment procedures regulated by the Law Society of Upper Canada for firms located in Toronto. Many of our lawyers, both partners and associates, are active participants in the decisions surrounding the hiring of articling students.

If you have the desire to work in a dynamic environment, and are prepared to show us what you've got, then KRMC may be the place for you to start your legal career. We invite all interested individuals to submit an application, which should include a cover letter, resume, law school and undergraduate transcripts, and any references that you wish to be considered. Email applications are accepted, although we ask that applicants include all supporting documents in no more than 2 attachments.

Should you have questions on the articling experience at KRMC, please contact our Articling Coordinator, Paul Cancilla, at pcancilla@krmc-law.com for further information.