UPDATED June 15
Precedent has been keeping track of hireback numbers on our super popular Hireback Chart. Below, we’ve done the math on hireback rates at Toronto’s biggest firms. Here are a few things we learned:
- Highest hireback rates: Osler (100%), Blakes (81%), Cassels (79%), Faskens (72%), Torys (72%)
- Lowest hireback rates: Gowlings (28%), Miller Thomson (36%), FMC (47%), BLG (50%), Ogilvy (54%)
- Firms that hire the most first year associates: Osler (33), Blakes (23), Stikeman Elliott (21) (note: Blakes hired 22 students, plus one student who clerked)
Hireback rates: Toronto firms with 12 or more articling students
| Firm | Number of students hired |
Total number of articling students |
Number who opted out |
Hireback rate* |
| Osler | 33 | 33 | 0 | 100% |
| Blakes | 22 | 29 | 2 | 81% |
| Cassels | 11 | 19 | 5 | 79% |
| Faskens | 13 | 19 | 1 | 72% |
| Torys | 13 | 18 | 0 | 72% |
| Goodmans | 10 | 14 | 0 | 71% |
| McMillan | 10 | 15 | 0 | 67% |
| Stikeman | 21 | 33 | 1 | 66% |
| Davies | 11 | 22 | 5 | 65% |
| McCarthy | 18 | 28 | 0 | 64% |
| Bennett Jones | 9 | 16 | 1 | 60% |
| Heenan Blaikie | 7 | 12 | 0 | 58% |
| Ogilvy | 7 | 13 | 0 | 54% |
| BLG | 10 | 21 | 1 | 50% |
| FMC | 7 | 15 | 0 | 47% |
| Miller Thomson | 4 | 12 | 1 | 36% |
| Gowlings | 5 | 19 | 1 | 28% |
*Percentage determined based on total number of students who asked to be considered for hireback (not total number of articling students).