Gowlings offers two articling rotation programs. The first is the Intesive Rotation Program in which the student spends 7 months in either Business, Litigation or Intellectual Property, and 3 months in one of the other departments. The second rotation program is Balanced Rotation Program in which the student's time is divided equally among Business Law and Advocacy.

The Business Law rotation will include exposure to most, but perhaps not all, areas of business law, which includes general corporate/commercial, technology, tax, energy, corporate finance, financial services, real estate and environmental law. If you are interested in specific areas of business law, we will certainly do our best to give you exposure to those areas.

Similarly, the Advocacy Rotation will include exposure to most areas of our litigation practice, which includes commercial litigation, banking litigation, employment and labour law, insurance and professional liability, product liability, health law and class actions.

And finally, our Intellectual Property practice covers areas such as patents, trademarks, copyright, industrial design and advertising.

For more information on all of Gowlings' practice areas, please visit www.gowlings.com.

A number of external rotations are also available. Over the 2009/10 articling year, students are expected to be seconded to Scotiabank, The Royal Bank of Canada and the Toronto Community Housing Corporation.

Gowlings Toronto also provides a comprehensive seminar program for its articling students, which expands from the summer seminar program, as well as an extensive social program. For example, the 2008/09 articling students had a games night out at eZone, attended AIDSbeat, enjoyed a night of billiards, celebrated the mid-point of their articles, and also celebrated the end of the articles.

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