Career Days

Lapointe Rosenstein Marchand Melançon is pleased to meet with students on Career Days organized by Quebec Law Faculties. Our firm dispatches several attorneys to each university to talk with students at all levels, convey information about the firm and our selection process, and answer all student questions.

Our firm will be participating at the following career days:

• Université de Sherbrooke:  January 10, 2012
• Université du Québec à Montréal:  January 17, 2012
• McGill University:  January 18, 2012
• Université de Montréal:  January 19, 2012
• University of Ottawa:  January 23, 2012

Interview Procedure

Lapointe Rosenstein Marchand Melançon is proud to be party to the Intern Recruitment Agreement among major Quebec law firms. The Agreement was drawn up several years ago at the behest of law student associations that wanted to establish a uniform recruitment period. The Agreement sets general recruitment parameters for students who have completed at least thirty-six (36) credits as part of their law program. The Agreement prohibits the recruitment of first-year students for student and articling positions (except in the case of students from the co-op program of the Faculty of Law of University of Sherbrooke).

This year, our recruitment process will take place as follows. After examining all the résumés we receive, about 100 selected students will be called in for an initial 15- to 20-minute interview which will be held in the presence of two attorneys from our firm. Some 30 students from among those with whom we meet will be short-listed for a second interview lasting about 30 minutes which will be held in the presence of five to six members of our Recruitment Committee. Some of these students will then be invited to a cocktail where they will have an opportunity to meet with most of the attorneys in our firm. Internship offers will then be made to some of the candidates who were invited to the cocktail..

The firm has set the following schedule In conformance with the Recruitment Agreement:

• February 10, 2012:  cutoff date for receipt of résumés from students covered by the Agreement;
• from March 12 to March 16, 2012:  initial interviews;
• from March 16 to March 19, 2012:  convocation of candidates for second interviews;
• from March 19 to March 27, 2012:  second interviews;
• March 28, 2012:  cocktail for some candidates and the majority of our firm’s attorneys;
• March 30, 2012:  articling offers.