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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 18 years and sort the hireback data in each column. If you click on a specific firm, you’ll see its historical data. Below the chart, we’ve outlined how we calculate the hireback rate and how we have handled law-firm mergers over the years.
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| Firm | Articling Students |
Students Hired Back |
Number of opt outs* |
Start Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Lawrence Barristers | 2 | 2 | 0 | June and August | |
| Chaitons | 2 | 2 | 0 | TBD | |
| Crawley MacKewn Brush | 2 | 2 | 0 | August | |
| Daoust Vukovich | 1 | 1 | 0 | August | |
| Rowand | 1 | 1 | 0 | September | |
| Ross Nasseri | 2 | 2 | 0 | August | |
| Peterson McVicar | 2 | 1 | 0 | August | |
| Gilbert’s | 4 | 4 | 0 | August | |
| Loopstra Nixon | 4 | 4 | 0 | August | |
| Dickinson Wright | 4 | 3 | 0 | September | |
| Teplitsky | 1 | 1 | 0 | August | |
| Sherrard Kuzz | 3 | 3 | 0 | July to September | |
| Hicks Morley | 13 | 8 | 1 | September | |
| Bell Temple | 5 | 5 | 0 | July or August | |
| Blaney McMurtry | 6 | 6 | 0 | September | |
| Baker & McKenzie | 6 | 5 | 1 | September | |
| Fogler, Rubinoff | 7 | 5 | 0 | September | |
| WeirFoulds | 6 | 5 | 0 | September | |
| Shibley Righton | 2 | 1 | 0 | August | |
| Dentons | 12 | 10 | 1 | September | |
| Fasken | 13 | 11 | 1 | September | |
| Norton Rose Fulbright | 14 | 11 | 3 | September | |
| Stikeman Elliott | 21 | 19 | 2 | September | |
| Lerners | 4 | 3 | 0 | TBD | |
| Torkin Manes | 7 | 7 | 0 | September | |
| Wildeboer Dellelce | 4 | 3 | 0 | February 2027 | |
| Aird & Berlis | 14 | 12 | 0 | September | |
| McMillan | 13 | 9 | 1 | September | |
| Goodmans | 12 | 12 | 0 | September | |
| Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg | 20 | 17 | 0 | September | |
| Cassels Brock & Blackwell | 24 | 15 | 0 | September | |
| Miller Thomson | 12 | 11 | 1 | September | |
| Paliare Roland | 4 | 2 | 1 | September | |
| Blake, Cassels & Graydon | 28 | 24 | 3 | September | |
| Gowling WLG | 15 | 10 | 0 | September | |
| Beard Winter | 4 | 1 | 0 | September | |
| Bennett Jones | 23 | 17 | 0 | September | |
| Chernos Flaherty Svonkin | 1 | 1 | 0 | September | |
| Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb | 3 | 3 | 0 | September | |
| Keyser Mason Ball | 3 | 1 | 0 | August | |
| Clyde & Co Canada | 3 | 3 | 0 | September | |
| Robins Appleby | 3 | 1 | 0 | September | |
| Polley Faith | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | |
| Thornton Grout Finnigan | 3 | 1 | 0 | September | |
| Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti | 4 | 2 | 1 | September | |
| Goldblatt Partners | 8 | 2 | 0 | June and September | |
| Smart & Biggar | 8 | 5 | 0 | September | |
| McCague Borlack | 5 | 3 | 0 | September | |
| DLA Piper | 7 | 4 | 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.