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Guild Yule is dedicated to the development and success of law students. For many years, we have funded scholarships and bursaries at Allard Law, UVic and TRU. Our lawyers have taught Insurance Law at Allard since the 1950’s. We have a strong tradition of teaching, coaching moots, and judging mock trials. We recognize that law students are the future of the profession. This understanding, and our dedication to the development and success of law students, carries over to our own articling program.

We look upon our students as potential future partners in our practice. With that in mind, we are looking for people who both we and our clients can work with, and who will feel comfortable working with us. Ideal candidates will be people with integrity, a sense of balance and proportion, and who are open-minded and tolerant of others, but who can be tough when required. We are looking for students with the skills and character we think are necessary to becoming effective counsel, including:

• superior analytical abilities;
• excellent communication skills – speaking, writing, and one which is too often overlooked, listening;
• the self-confidence necessary to advocate effectively on a client’s behalf; and,
• the patience and self-discipline needed to continue learning as part of a team.

Our firm is not highly structured. We have attained the high levels of expertise in particular fields necessary to meet the needs of our clients, but our tradition of collegiality and openness has led us away from organizing ourselves into discrete practice groups. Our articling student program is an extension of this philosophy.

Though our students do continue to learn law, we do not concentrate on supplementing the formal, substantive legal education they have already received, and we do not slot our students into a rotation through various practice areas. Rather, we aim to train our students in the practice of law, and the process of lawyering – applying their analytical skills to legal problems, while remaining focused on finding practical means of protecting and furthering our clients’ interests.

Many of our lawyers are actively involved in providing pro bono services. Students who are interested in doing pro bono work are encouraged to do so by participating in clinics with lawyers at the firm.

Students at our firm can expect a private office. You will be treated as a member of the team and will be invited to the various social, networking, client development, and professional development events that occur throughout the year, including the Vancouver Bar Association, Canadian Bar Association, and continuing legal education activities.

Our salary structure is reviewed annually and is commensurate with remuneration paid by other downtown Vancouver law firms. We also offer two weeks paid vacation – the maximum allowed by the Law Society – and an excellent package of dental and extended health benefits. In addition, every effort is made to provide students with their first choice of both start dates for the articling year, and dates for attendance at the Practice Readiness Education Program.