Burchell Wickwire Bryson LLP is accepting applications to fill articled clerk positions for the 2024-2025 articling year.
Position: 2024-2025 Articled Clerk
Location: Halifax
Applications must be submitted by January 9, 2023. Your application package should include:
- cover letter;
- resume;
- current unofficial law school and undergraduate transcripts; and
- references.
Please send application materials to Jonathan Saumier at jsaumier@bwbllp.ca Applications will be accepted by email or hardcopy.
About Us: Burchell Wickwire Bryson LLP is a downtown Halifax, full service law firm, with more than two dozen lawyers and a total complement in excess of 50 people. This makes us a relatively large Halifax law firm, and we take great pride in more than 100 years of providing top quality legal services and client satisfaction. The result has been a long list of loyal clients and dedicated professionals.
Working at Burchell Wickwire Bryson LLP is characterized by a fast-paced, varied and collegial environment. We work together to help one another grow as professionals, focused on growing and excelling in a private practice environment. Burchell Wickwire Bryson LLP is known for its great workplace culture; we work hard, we enjoy our work, and we respect and enjoy our colleagues at the firm. We also enjoy and are proud of our increasingly diverse workplace.
In terms of practice areas, Burchell Wickwire Bryson LLP has active practices in corporate & commercial transactions, civil litigation, insurance litigation, family law, journalism and media law, and labour & employment. Uniquely, we also have the largest and one of the longest standing aboriginal law practices in Atlantic Canada. Our aboriginal practice group represents clients in all areas of aboriginal law, including First Nation governance, litigation, land claims, First Nations Economic Development, and aboriginal entrepreneurship.
Aside from working hard in the office, our lawyers also get involved in the city and the profession, offering their time on charities, in the arts, and with the activities of the Canadian Bar Association and the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society. Burchell Wickwire Bryson LLP is, and works to continue being, part of the fabric of our community.
As an articled clerk at Burchell Wickwire Bryson LLP, you will experience an in-depth and well-rounded exposure to all firm practice areas. We maintain a flexible program, tailoring the experience to the interests of both clerks and lawyers, in order to avoid the missed opportunities sometimes inherent in a rigid rotation model. Clerks are paired with a mentoring lawyer to ensure the articling year offers access to all aspects of the practice of law. Mentors also are advocates for our clerks, ensuring they get rewarding work and assisting with workload management.
We augment our articled clerks' training with in-house seminars designed to highlight specific legal issues or developing trends. We strive to expose not only our articled clerks but all of our lawyers to ongoing professional development and sharing of expertise within the office.
With experience comes greater autonomy. As the articling year develops we encourage our lawyers to find opportunities for clerks to work directly with clients, and experience has shown that this is often the case indeed.
Burchell Wickwire Bryson LLP respects the significant burden faced by articled clerks preparing for and completing the various components of the bar admission process. We facilitate time away from the office as necessary, and do what we can to ease the stress of bar admission. Above all, we recognize our articled clerks' success as our success.
If you feel that private practice and Burchell Wickwire Bryson LLP may be the right fit for you, we welcome your application.