Baker McKenzie LLP

Baker McKenzie LLP is the Canadian office of the global Baker McKenzie network, headquartered in Toronto. The firm's own description of its Canada team highlights corporate transactions, labour and employment, litigation, and tax, alongside growing competition/foreign investment, international arbitration, and technology/AI/FinTech capabilities. The articling program runs a formal structure of three rotations of roughly 3.5 months each across different practice areas, with each student paired with a junior and senior mentor and a formal review at the end of each rotation. The 14-week summer associate program is explicitly non-rotational, letting students choose their areas of interest.

The firm has held Mansfield Certification Plus status (Diversity Lab) for six consecutive years as of the 2023-24 cohort, a firm-wide (not Toronto-specific) certification requiring affirmative consideration of a diverse candidate pool for leadership roles, recruitment, and equity partner promotions.