DLA Piper 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2013 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 100% | |
2018 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 50% | |
2019 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 100% | The student who opted out is pursuing graduate studies. |
2020 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 67% | In September, after hireback season had concluded, DLA Piper hired back one additional student from its 2020 articling pool. |
2021 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 75% | The firm’s Montreal office also hired back both of its students as associates. The Edmonton office has hired back both of its students. And the Calgary office has hired back all three of its associates. The firm has not determined how many of the eight students in Vancouver will be back, but the process will be underway shortly. |
2022 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 80% | |
2023 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 100% | |
2024 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 57% |
*Before calculating each hireback rate, we subtracted the opt-outs from each firm’s total number of articling students.