Blaney McMurtry Hireback Numbers
A year-by-year look at the firm’s hireback data.
| Year | Articling Students |
Students Hired Back |
Number of opt outs |
Hireback Rate* | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 71% | |
| 2014 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 50% | One student is starting in January 2015 after completing an LL.M program. |
| 2013 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 80% | |
| 2012 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 29% | |
| 2011 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 71% | |
| 2010 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 100% | |
| 2009 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 50% | |
| 2017 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 67% | |
| 2018 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 100% | |
| 2020 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 67% | The firm hired back four students on contract in June 2020 and then as full-time associates in August 2020. After the Hireback season concluded, the firm hired one more student as an associate in September 2020. |
| 2021 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 100% | |
| 2022 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 100% | |
| 2023 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 83% | |
| 2024 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 67% | |
| 2025 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 100% |
*Before calculating each hireback rate, we subtracted the opt-outs from each firm’s total number of articling students.