Toronto-Wide Hireback Numbers

Since 2009, Precedent has tracked the number of articling students Toronto law firms have hired back as first-year associates—and called it the Hireback Watch.

In the interactive chart below, you can toggle between the past 15 years and sort by the hireback data in each column. If you click on the name of a firm, you’ll see its numbers from over the years. See below the chart to find out how we calculate the data and how we have handled law-firm mergers over the years.

The 2023 Hireback Watch is now complete.

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Firm Articling
Students
Students
Hired Back
Number of
opt outs*
Start Date Notes
Keyser Mason Ball 3 3 0 Varies
Clyde & Co Canada 2 2 0 July
Cavalluzzo LLP 4 1 1 September
Teplitsky 2 2 0 June and September
Hicks Morley 11 7 0 September
Sherrard Kuzz 2 2 0 Flexible
Dutton Brock LLP 3 3 0 July
Bereskin & Parr 5 3 2 September
Baker & McKenzie 6 3 0 September
Blaney McMurtry 6 5 0 TBD
WeirFoulds 8 5 0 July and September
Lenczner Slaght 9 8 0 September
Fogler, Rubinoff 7 4 0 September or January
Cassels Brock & Blackwell 21 21 0 September
Torkin Manes 7 6 0 Varies
Wildeboer Dellelce 7 6 0 February 2024
Blake, Cassels & Graydon 26 24 1 September
Norton Rose Fulbright 15 12 2 September
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 15 13 1 September
Torys 19 18 0 September
Gardiner Roberts 5 3 1 TBD
Lerners 4 2 0 Various
Fasken 18 16 0 September
Beard Winter 5 2 0 August and September
McMillan 12 11 0 September
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt 32 29 3 September
Paliare Roland 3 2 0 September
Aird & Berlis 12 7 3 September
Goodmans 12 10 0 September
Department of Justice 8 8 0 June
Dentons 11 9 0 September
McCarthy Tétrault 24 14 5 September
Borden Ladner Gervais 22 17 0 September
Miller Thomson 15 10 2 September
Gowling WLG 15 12 1 September
Bennett Jones 24 22 0 September
Stikeman Elliott 24 21 0 September
McLeish Orlando 4 2 1 August and September
Robins Appleby 3 1 0 September
Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti 6 6 0 September
Goldblatt Partners 6 4 1 TBD
Ridout & Maybee 1 1 0 September
McCague Borlack 5 4 0 Varies
DLA Piper 8 8 0 September
Loopstra Nixon 4 3 0 July and August
Kim Spencer McPhee 2 2 0 Late July
Gilbert’s LLP 2 0 0 N/A
Dickinson Wright 3 2 0 September

*Students who opted out are included in the figures for total articling students

Notes on the data

  • Our data for each year before 2012 refers to Ogilvy Renault, which merged with Norton Rose in July 2011.
  • Our data for each year before 2013 refers to the numbers for FMC, which merged with Dentons in March 2013.
  • Our data for each year before 2015 refers to Davis LLP, which merged with DLA Piper in April 2015.
  • Our data for each year before 2016 refers to Gowling Lafleur Henderson, which merged with UK-based Wragge Lawrence Graham to form Gowling WLG in February 2016.