Ryder Wright Blair & Holmes LLP currently hires one articling student each year. We are committed to ensuring that our student receives an exceptional articling experience.

Excellent learning opportunity

• Within our small firm environment, our student is given the opportunity to work with each of the firm’s 8 lawyers. This ensures that he or she has exposure to all of the different areas of law in which we practice and to the differing styles of practice of a variety of lawyers.
• RWBH practices virtually exclusively in the areas of union-side labour and employee-side employment law, including labour and employment related matters such as human rights, professional discipline, employment standards and insured benefits. The firm also does some non-labour administrative law and civil litigation.
• RWBH is recognized for its commitment to justice in labour practices, and a student with a passion for the labour movement and social justice will find the environment highly motivating.
• We ensure that while articling at RWBH, our student is exposed to all aspects of the practice of union side labour law, including the opportunity to attend and participate in the preparation for grievance and labour board hearings.
• Our articling students are represented by CUPE Local 1281, and the terms and conditions of employment for the student are determined by a collective agreement.
• RWBH is committed to being an equal opportunity employer.
• We make every effort to hire from our articling student body when we have openings for lawyers and over half of our lawyers articled with the firm (or predecessors). Where we are unable to hire our students ourselves, we assist the student in finding a placement in the labour law field. Virtually all of our students who have not been hired by RWBH have found work in the field.