How To Avoid Getting An Articling Job

Some bad habits never seem to go out of date. Here is a reprint of an article we wrote years ago about the silliest and simplest mistakes that applicants for articling positions make, over and over.  Amazingly, the same mistakes are still being made:

For decades, there has been much wringing of hands about those students who failed to find articles, so that they can learn practical skills before being unleashed on the unsuspecting public. The Law Society has pleaded with firms to take on more articling students. Based upon my experience,  a surprising number of law students have not learned the basic skills for obtaining any type of professional job, paid or unpaid.  The Law Society has now chosen to resolve the problem by allowing students to enter the practice of law without having articled at all. Let the client beware....