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Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19
It has far less to do with the economy than the bar culture here. There's an entirely different recruiting strategy that involves hiring fewer people to begin with and keeping a greater percentage of them. I.e. we'll hire 12 students and hire back 11 rather than hiring 20 and hiring back 10. We hire back about 90% of our articling students (that's actually a conservative estimate). Consequently, new recruits are treated as if they're full fledged members of the firm as soon as they're hired as summer students (basically interns) rather than when they get their legs under them as associates - the assumption is that if you're summering here you're probably going to be here in 5 years as a junior. At least until you go in house, or whatever.
That's just good business though. If your pop is in a position to ship legal work to the firm that's worth $1,000,000 per year, paying you $100,000 is a no-brainer. As for the other thing, in Calgary biglaw, people don't really get fired, people... ahem... find new opportunities. It just looks better on the firm when it appears that an associate voluntarily left rather than was fired. "We don't employ people who aren't competent or trustworthy lawyers" is the message. So yeah, damn right the firm will find them somewhere to land.
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Calgary firms hire more articling students relative to their Vancouver counter-parts. They have a higher hire back ration, as their is just more work to go around. If anything the Vancouver firms are far picker....well I know that for a fact, as I was on the cusp of being a good student and got far more job interviews/offers from Calgary than I did from Vancouver.
Calgary just has more work to go around. Not just in law but everywhere.