Students who secure summer positions with larger participating Toronto law firms can spend half the summer working at the law firm, and the balance of the summer working at either a public interest organization of their choice, or on a participating innovation law project. The law firm that hired the student continues to pay that students salary during the second half of the summer.
Students who wish to participate in SPIAP will spend half the summer at a sponsoring law firm and the remaining half of the summer at a public interest organization of their choice. The sponsoring law firm will retain full control over which students are hired for the summer and will have an opportunity to approve the public interest organization where students will spend their internship.
Although the students will spend only half the summer at the sponsoring law firm, they will be integrated as fully as possible into the law firm’s summer program and will be included in social and other events held by the law firm during the summer. The participating students will receive the same salary as non-SPIAP students at the sponsoring law firm for the same duration of employment (usually 12-15 weeks).
The student is resposible for proposing an organization, making the arrangements to work at the organization, and arranging all timing decisions with the law firm. Once the student has secured all of the above requirements, they will need to submit a one page proposal to the firm outlining their interest in the program and provide information about the organization that they wish to work at for the summer.
The Career Services office is asking that you inform Nadine Reid, Recruitment Coordinator, via email (nreid@osgoode.yorku.ca) upon submission of your application(s) to the firm(s) of your interest in this program. You may send her an email including your name, and your firm of interest along with the name of the organization you wish to work with. Below is a list of the firms that are participating in SPIAP this year.
Participating Firms in SPIAP 2006:
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