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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lang Michener | 8 | 4 | 2 | ||
| Gilbert’s LLP | 2 | 2 | 0 | August | |
| MacLeod Dixon | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||
| McCague Borlack | 3 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Affleck Greene McMurtry | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Heenan Blaikie | 12 | 7 | 0 | September | |
| Kim Spencer McPhee | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Ridout & Maybee | 2 | 1 | 0 | July | |
| Smart & Biggar | 2 | 2 | 0 | August and September | |
| Baker & McKenzie | 3 | 3 | 0 | September and January | |
| Bereskin & Parr | 8 | 5 | 0 | September | |
| Brauti Thorning Zibarras | 2 | 2 | 0 | August and September | |
| Beard Winter | 5 | 2 | 0 | July and August | |
| Blaney McMurtry | 6 | 3 | 0 | August and September | |
| Fogler, Rubinoff | 4 | 2 | 0 | September | |
| Lenczner Slaght | 3 | 1 | 1 | September | |
| Minden Gross | 4 | 2 | 0 | September | |
| Wildeboer Dellelce | 3 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Aird & Berlis | 9 | 3 | 0 | October | |
| Bennett Jones | 16 | 9 | 1 | September | |
| Blake, Cassels & Graydon | 29 | 22 | 2 | October | |
| Borden Ladner Gervais | 21 | 10 | 1 | September | |
| Cassels Brock & Blackwell | 19 | 11 | 5 | September | |
| Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg | 22 | 11 | 5 | September | |
| Dentons | 15 | 7 | 0 | ||
| Department of Justice | 11 | 11 | 0 | Immediate | |
| Fasken | 19 | 13 | 1 | September | |
| Gardiner Roberts | 4 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Goodmans | 14 | 10 | 0 | ||
| Gowling WLG | 19 | 5 | 1 | January | |
| Lerners | 6 | 1 | 0 | September | |
| McCarthy Tétrault | 28 | 18 | 0 | September | |
| McMillan | 15 | 10 | 0 | September | |
| Miller Thomson | 12 | 4 | 1 | September | |
| Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt | 33 | 33 | 0 | September | |
| Paliare Roland | 2 | 1 | 0 | September | |
| Stikeman Elliott | 33 | 21 | 1 | ||
| Torkin Manes | 5 | 3 | 0 | Summer | |
| Torys | 18 | 13 | 0 | September | |
| WeirFoulds | 6 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Norton Rose Fulbright | 13 | 7 | 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.