Cassels Brock & Blackwell 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 88% | The student who opted out will be working for a start-up company. |
2015 | 17 | 8 | 0 | 47% | |
2014 | 19 | 12 | 2 | 71% | |
2013 | 19 | 16 | 1 | 89% | The student who opted out will be pursuing a career in family law. |
2012 | 19 | 16 | 1 | 89% | The student who opted out will be pursuing entrepreneurial opportunities. |
2011 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 71% | One of the students who opted out is doing her LL.M. at UCLA. |
2010 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 63% | |
2009 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 79% | |
2017 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 100% | |
2018 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 100% | |
2019 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 91% | The student who opted out has accepted an associate position at an American firm. The firm offered a short-term contract position to the other student who is not returning as an associate. |
2020 | 15 | 13 | 0 | 87% | |
2021 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 100% | |
2022 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 100% | |
2023 | 21 | 21 | 0 | 100% | |
2024 | 23 | 23 | 0 | 100% | One of the students hired back will be clerking at the Court of Appeal of Alberta in 2024-2025 and has been invited to join the firm as an associate in 2025. |
*Before calculating each hireback rate, we subtracted the opt-outs from each firm’s total number of articling students.