Summer internship programs are an important element of the Faculty’s policy of encouraging students to incorporate different perspectives into their legal education.
Firm-Funded Summer Internship Programs
Under the Firm-Funded Summer Internship Programs, second year students with summer jobs at sponsoring law firms spend part of the summer working at a law firm (typically the first part) and part of the summer as an intern at a host organization or research assistant for a professor (from 4-8 weeks depending on the firm). While students are working at the sponsoring law firm, they are integrated as fully as possible into the law firm's summer program and included in social and other events held by the law firm during the summer. Each sponsoring law firm remunerates its Summer Internship students for the duration of the entire summer. As a result of this arrangement, participating students receive the same salary as non-Program students at the sponsoring law firms for the same duration of employment (usually from 12-14 weeks in total).
These internships, supported by many of Toronto's distinguished law firms, enable students to experience both the private practice of law and to work in an organization or for an academic in an area of public interest, human rights, international business and trade, or technology and innovation law.
For information on participating firms and details on how to apply, see the 2L employment documents in the Document Library on UTLawcareers.ca.
The following Firm-Funded Summer Internship Programs are available to second year students who obtain summer employment at a sponsoring law firm:
Other Summer Internship Programs
There are several other internship and fellowship programs which enable students to pursue summer opportunities in public interest law or international human rights, funded by the law school, student law society or external funders. Opportunities are made possible through the support of organizations such as the Donner Canadian Foundation, Legal Aid Ontario, and the Law Foundation of Ontario.
Pro Bono Students Canada Summer Fellowship Programs:
