Your Juris Doctor (J.D.) is a very flexible degree; the knowledge, experience, and skills you gain throughout your degree has broad applicability. Some of the career options listed below include the names of firms or organizations as examples of potential places to work. These employers have worked with us and hired from Queen’s in the past, but the list is not exhaustive and many other firms and organizations also hire from Queen’s.

Private Practice

Public Sector

  • Full-Service Firm: Representing commercial clients or individual clients in a variety of areas of law
  • Real Estate: Advising on residential transactions, urban planning, compliance 
  • Civil Litigation: Representing individuals or businesses; tort law; negligence
  • Labour & Employment Law: Representing individual employees or employers, unions
  • Criminal Law: Representing individuals with federal, provincial and municipal offices
  • Immigration: Advising individuals or commercial clients
  • Family Law: Assisting with divorces, custody matters, wills & estates, assets
  • In-House Counsel: Work in the legal department of a corporation advising on legal and managerial issues 
  • Federal Government: Federal departments, crown corporations
  • Provincial Government: Ministries
  • Crown Agencies: Government-funded organizations, task forces, regulators
  • Municipal Government: Councils, committees, city government departments and agencies
  • Institutions: Consulates, hospitals, educational institutions
  • Clerkships: Trial courts, federal courts, appeal courts, the Supreme Court
  • Foreign Consulates/Embassies: At home or abroad 

Social Justice

JD Advantage

  • Not-for-Profits: United Way, Cancer Society
  • Government-Funded Groups: Legal Aid Clinics, community agencies
  • International Organizations: UN, WTO, Criminal Court, Amnesty
  • Fellowships and Internships: Domestic and international 
  • Specialized Private Practice: Aboriginal law, administrative law, Charter litigation
  • Academia
  • Legal instructor
  • Law librarian
  • Career counsellor
  • Policy development in government
  • Legal writing, editing, blogging
  • Politics
  • Labour relations officer
  • Human resources
  • Legal recruiters 

 

Employers who have engaged with the Career Development Office

Toronto

Employer Name Location 
Affleck Greene McMurtry LLPToronto
Aird & Berlis LLPToronto
Alan D. Gold Professional CorporationToronto
Alcohol & Gaming Commission of Ontario - Legal ServicesToronto
AMR LLPToronto
Aviva Trial LawyersToronto
Baker McKenzieToronto
BakerlawToronto
Bales Beall LLPToronto
Barapp Law Firm Professional CorporationToronto
Barbra Schlifer Commemorative ClinicToronto
Beard Winter LLPToronto
Bell Temple LLPToronto
Bennett Jones LLPToronto
Benson Percival BrownToronto
Bereskin & Parr LLPToronto
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLPToronto
Blaney McMurtryToronto
Bogoroch & Associates LLPToronto
Bookman Law Professional CorporationToronto
Borden Ladner Gervais LLPToronto
Brauti Thorning LLPToronto
Brian EberdtToronto
Canadian Civil Liberties AssociationToronto
Canadian Environmental Law AssociationToronto
Canadian Pension PlanToronto
Caramanna Friedberg LLPToronto
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLPToronto
Centre for Addiction and Mental HealthToronto
Centre for Equality Rights in AccommodationToronto
Chagpar & Associates- North YorkToronto
Christen Seaton Burrison Hudani LLPToronto
Clyde & Co Canada LLPToronto
Cooper, Sandler, Shime & Bergman LLPToronto
Crawford Chondon & Partners LLPToronto
Crawley MacKewn Brush LLPToronto
CROSSLEY LAWToronto
Cynthia PonToronto
Dale & Lessmann LLPToronto
Damien Frost & AssociatesToronto
Davies Howe LLPToronto
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLPToronto
Deacon, Spears, Fedson & MontizambertToronto
Deeth Williams Wall LLPToronto
Deloitte Tax Law LLPToronto
DelZotto, Zorzi LLPToronto
Department of JusticeToronto
Derstine PenmanToronto
Dewart Gleason LLPToronto
Dickinson Wright LLPToronto
DLA PiperToronto
EcojusticeToronto
Edward H. Royle & AssociatesToronto
EllisDon Group of CompaniesToronto
ERCO WorldwideToronto
FaskenToronto
Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLPToronto
First Capital RealtyToronto
Flaherty McCarthy LLPToronto
Fogler, Rubinoff LLPToronto
FP CanadaToronto
Freudman Law PCToronto
Gardiner Roberts LLPToronto
Gilbert's LLPToronto
Glaholt LLPToronto
Goodmans LLPToronto
Gowling WLG (Canada) LLPToronto
Grand Challenges CanadaToronto
Green and SpiegelToronto
Grillo BarristersToronto
Groia & Company Professional CorporationToronto
Hicks AdamsToronto
Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart StorieToronto
Himelfarb ProszanskiToronto
Hoffer Adler LLPToronto
Hunter-Liberatore-LawToronto
Hydro OneToronto
Injured Workers Community Legal ClinicToronto
Innocence CanadaToronto
Intact Financial CorporationToronto
Intact Insurance CompanyToronto
Interac Association‚ Acxsys CorporationToronto
IO - Infrastructure OntarioToronto
Jackman & AssociatesToronto
Jeffrey Goldman LawToronto
Jewish Immigrant Aid ServicesToronto
Jordan F Weisz Barristers & SolicitorsToronto
Kawaguchi Krajden LLPToronto
Keslassy Freedman Gelfand LLP Toronto
Kim Spencer McPhee Barristers P.C.Toronto
Koskie Minsky LLPToronto
KPMG Law LLPToronto
Kronis Rotsztain Margles CappelToronto
Lak Law Firm Professional CorporationToronto
Landy Marr Kats LLPToronto
Law Foundation of OntarioToronto
Law Society of OntarioToronto
Lawyers' Professional Indemnity CompanyToronto
Laxton Glass LLPToronto
LednToronto
Lee & Associates Personal Injury LawyersToronto
Lee & CompanyToronto
Lenczner Slaght LLPToronto
Levitt Sheikh Chaudhri and Swan LLPToronto
Lithwick LawToronto
Littler LLPToronto
Longo LLPToronto
Loopstra Nixon LLPToronto
Macdonald Sager Manis LLPToronto
Mathews, Dinsdale & Clark LLPToronto
McCague Borlack LLPToronto
McCarthy TetraultToronto
McLeish Orlando LLPToronto
McMillan LLPToronto
MetrolinxToronto
Mills & Mills LLPToronto
Miller ThomsonToronto
Minden Gross LLPToronto
Ministry of Attorney General - Constitutional Law BranchToronto
Ministry of Attorney General - Ministry of TransportationToronto
Ministry of the Attorney General - Justice Policy Development BranchToronto
Ministry of the Attorney General - Crown Law Office - CivilToronto
Ministry of the Attorney General - Financial Services Regulatory Authority of OntarioToronto
Ministry of the Attorney General - Indigenous Justice DivisionToronto
Ministry of the Attorney General - Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and TradeToronto
Ministry of the Attorney General - Ministry of FinanceToronto
Ministry of the Attorney General - Ministry of Indigenous AffairsToronto
Ministry of the Attorney General: Crown Law Office - CriminalToronto
Ministry of the Attorney General: Family Responsibility OfficeToronto
Ministry of the Attorney General: Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills DevelopmentToronto
Ministry of the Attorney General: Toronto West (Etobicoke) and Toronto (Downtown) Crown Attorney OfficesToronto
Ministry of the Attorney General: Treasury Board Secretariat - Legal Services BranchToronto
Monkhouse LawToronto
Morrison WattsToronto
MUNERA Professional CorporationToronto
National Hockey League Players' AssociationToronto
Neighbourhood Legal ServicesToronto
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLPToronto
Office of the Ombudsman of OntarioToronto
Ogletree Deakins International, LLPToronto
Olthuis Kleer Townshend LLPToronto
Ontario Court of AppealToronto
Ontario Energy BoardToronto
Ontario Justice Education NetworkToronto
Ontario Lottery and Gaming CorporationToronto
Ontario Nurses' AssociationToronto
Ontario Power Generation Inc.Toronto
Ontario Securities CommissionToronto
Ontario Superior Court of JusticeToronto
OSSTF - Ontario Secondary School Teachers FederationToronto
Owens Wright LLPToronto
Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLPToronto
Peacebuilders InternationalToronto
Preszler Law Firm LLPToronto
Public Prosecution Service of CanadaToronto
Rachlin & WolfsonToronto
Radnoff Haworth LLPToronto
Refugee Law LabToronto
Reybroek BarristersToronto
Riches, McKenzie & Herbert LLPToronto
Robins Appleby LLPToronto
Rochon GenovaToronto
Rogers Partners LLPToronto
Rosen Kirshen Tax LawToronto
Rotfleisch & Samulovitch P.C.Toronto
Rowand Intellectual Property Law LLPToronto
Royal Bank of CanadaToronto
Ryder Wright Blair & Holmes LLPToronto
Samfiru Tumarkin LLPToronto
Schultz Frost LLPToronto
Singleton ReynoldsToronto
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLPToronto
Smart & BiggarToronto
Smitiuch Injury LawToronto
Steinmetz and Associates,Toronto
Stevenson Whelton LLPToronto
Stikeman Elliott LLPToronto
Sunnybrook Health Sciences CentreToronto
Tarion Warranty CorporationToronto
TD Bank GroupToronto
Thomson, RogersToronto
Thorsteinssons LLPToronto
Torkin Manes LLPToronto
Toronto Hydro CorporationToronto
Toronto Transit Commission, Legal DepartmentToronto
Torys LLPToronto
UBS BankToronto
Unifor Legal DepartmentToronto
United SteelworkersToronto
University of Toronto Faculty AssociationToronto
Walker LawToronto
WeirFoulds LLPToronto
West Toronto Community Legal ServicesToronto
Widleboer Dellelce LLPToronto
Will Davidson LLPToronto
Women's Legal Education and Action FundToronto
Zarek Taylor Grossman Hanrahan LLPToronto

 

Ottawa

Employer NameLocation
House of CommonsOttawa
Tax Court of CanadaOttawa
Borden Ladner Gervais LLPOttawa
Canada Deposit Insurance CorporationOttawa
Canada Mortgage and Housing CorporationOttawa
Canadian Blood ServicesOttawa
Canadian Medical AssociationOttawa
Canadian Red CrossOttawa
Canadian Union of Public EmployeesOttawa
Cassidy LeveyOttawa
Cedric Nahum LawOttawa
City of Ottawa, Legal Services BranchOttawa
D. Larry Segal Law OfficesOttawa
Davidson Houle Allen LLPOttawa
Dentons Canada LLPOttawa
Department of Canadian HeritageOttawa
Department of JusticeOttawa
Department of Justice - Global Affairs Canada Legal ServicesOttawa
Department of Justice - Trade Law BureauOttawa
Department of Justice- Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes SectionOttawa
Department of Justice: Agriculture and Food Inspection Legal ServicesOttawa
Department of Justice: Bijuralism and Advisory Services SectionOttawa
Department of Justice: Canadian Revenue Agency Legal ServicesOttawa
Department of Justice: Candian Border ServicesOttawa
Department of Justice: Civil Litigation SectionOttawa
Department of Justice: Family, Children and Youth Section, Policy SectorOttawa
Department of Justice: Impact Assessment Agency of CanadaOttawa
Department of Justice: International Development Section, Policy SectorOttawa
Department of Justice: Natural Resources CanadaOttawa
Department of Justice: Public Law and Legislative Services Sector - Human Rights Law SectionOttawa
Department of Justice: Public Safety Canada Legal ServicesOttawa
Department of Justice: Tax Law Services SectionOttawa
FaskenOttawa
Federal Court of AppealOttawa
Gowling WLGOttawa
Kathleen Jin Law OfficeOttawa
Low Murchison Radnoff LLPOttawa
MBM Intellectual Property LawOttawa
McMillan LLPOttawa
Momentum Business LawOttawa
National Judicial InstituteOttawa
Nelligan LawOttawa
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLPOttawa
Ollip P.C.Ottawa
Ontario Land TribunalOttawa
Ontario Superior Court of JusticeOttawa
Ottawa Police ServiceOttawa
Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLPOttawa
Public Interest Advocacy CentreOttawa
Rasmussen Starr Ruddy LLPOttawa
Royal Ottawa Health Care GroupOttawa
Smart & Biggar/FetherstonhaughOttawa
Soloway Wright LLPOttawa
Spiteri & Ursulak LLPOttawa
Stikeman Elliott LLPOttawa
Supreme Court of CanadaOttawa
The Canadian Bar AssociationOttawa
United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesOttawa
University of Ottawa Community Legal ClinicOttawa
Williams Litigation LawyersOttawa

 

Vancouver/British Columbia

Employer NameLocation
Central Coast Law CorporationBella Bella
Engineers & Geoscientists British ColumbiaBurnaby
British Columbia Prosecution ServiceKelowna
Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLPKelowna
Chouinard & CompanyRichmond
WorkSafeBCRichmond
Cote & Evans Trial LawyersSurrey
Access Pro BonoVancouver
Allard Law SchoolVancouver
B.C. Civil Liberties AssociationVancouver
Black, Gropper & Co.Vancouver
Branch MacMasterVancouver
Donaldson's BarristersVancouver
EcojusticeVancouver
Ferguson AllinghamVancouver
Gall Legge Grant Zwack LLPVancouver
Gowling WLGVancouver
Guild, Yule & CompanyVancouver
Hunter Litigation ChambersVancouver
JFK Law CorporationVancouver
Lindsay Kenney LLPVancouver
Mandell PinderVancouver
Miller Titerle + CompanyVancouver
Myers, Karp, Patey & NeurauterVancouver
Overholt LawVancouver
Roper GreyellVancouver
RTG Law Corp.Vancouver
Sarah Leamon Law GroupVancouver
Slater Vecchio LLPVancouver
Whitelaw TwiningVancouver
Yan Muirhead LLPVancouver
Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLPVancouver
Bennett Jones LLPVancouver
Blake, Cassels & GraydonVancouver
Borden Ladner GervaisVancouver
Borden Ladner Gervais LLPVancouver
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLPVancouver
Clark Wilson LLPVancouver
Community Legal Assistance SocietyVancouver
Dentons Canada LLPVancouver
Department of JusticeVancouver
DLA PiperVancouver
Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLPVancouver
FaskenVancouver
Law Students Legal Advice ProgramVancouver
Lawson LundellVancouver
McCarthy Tetrault LLPVancouver
McMillan LLPVancouver
Miller ThomsonVancouver
Miller Titerle + CompanyVancouver
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLPVancouver
QuadReal Property GroupVancouver
Singleton ReynoldsVancouver
Stikeman Elliott LLPVancouver
West Coast LEAFVancouver
ZymeworksVancouver
Civil Resolution TribunalVictoria
Cook RobertsVictoria
Environmental Law CentreVictoria
Ministry of Attorney General - Legal Services BranchVictoria

 

Calgary/Alberta

Employer NameLocation
Alberta Court of AppealCalgary
Alberta Electric System OperatorCalgary
Alberta Justice and Solicitor GeneralCalgary
Bennett Jones LLPCalgary
Blake Cassels & GraydonCalgary
Borden Ladner GervaisCalgary
Brownlee LLPCalgary
Burnet, Duckworth & PalmerCalgary
Calgary Legal GuidanceCalgary
Carscallen LLPCalgary
Court of Queen's Bench of AlbertaCalgary
DentonsCalgary
EcojusticeCalgary
Gowling WLGCalgary
Lawson LundellCalgary
McLennan RossCalgary
Miller ThomsonCalgary
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLPCalgary
Osler, Hoskin & HarcourtCalgary
TC EnergyCalgary
Whitelaw TwiningCalgary
Bennett JonesEdmonton
Bishop & McKenzieEdmonton
Field LawEdmonton
Reynolds Mirth Richards & FarmerEdmonton
Witten LLPEdmonton
DentonsEdmonton
Liberty LawEdmonton
Miller ThomsonEdmonton

 

Kingston 

Employer NameLocation
Cunningham, Swan, Carty, Little & BonhamKingston
Ontario Superior Court of JusticeKingston
Templeman LLPKingston
Aitken RobertsonKingston
NBM LegalKingston
Pro Bono Family Law ProjectKingston
Pro Bono Students CanadaKingston
Queen's Business Law ClinicKingston
Queen's Elder Law ClinicKingston
Queen's Faculty of LawKingston
Queen's Family Law ClinicKingston
Queen's Legal AidKingston

 

Belleville/Trenton/Eastern Ontario

Employer NameLocation
Community Advocacy & Legal CentreBelleville
Alexander HeathBrockville
Chugh LawCornwall
Burford LawNapanee
Menlove Law Professional CorporationPicton

 

Greater Toronto Area/Barrie

Employer NameLocation
Town of AuroraAurora
Oatley VigmondBarrie
Ministry of the Attorney General - Peel Crown Attorney's OfficeBrampton
Regional Municipality of PeelBrampton
Northumberland Community Legal Centre [NCLC]Cobourg
Feldstein Family Law GroupMarkham
Poon & Ho LLPMarkham
Samuel Eng & AssociatesMarkham
Starkman BarristersMarkham
Williams HR Law Professional CorporationMarkham
Wilson Vukelich LLPMarkham
City of Mississauga - Legal Services DivisionMississauga
Desjardins GroupMississauga
DH Professional CorporationMississauga
Hannan Hannan BarristersMississauga
JSM LawMississauga
Keyser Mason Ball LLPMississauga
NIKA LAW LLPMississauga
Nissan Canada, IncMississauga
Pallett ValoMississauga
Thompson MacColl & Stacy LLPMississauga
Toyota Financial ServicesMississauga
Avanessy Giordano LLPNorth York
Economical InsuranceNorth York
O'Connor MacLeod HannaOakville
Will DavidsonOakville
The Regional Municipality of HaltonOakville
Ministry of the Attorney General: Ministry of FinanceOshawa
Fariborz DavoudiPickering
Richmond Hill Family LawyersRichmond Hill
Kung, Lo & Jia Law LLPScarborough
Marciano Beckenstein LLPVaughn
BrattysVaughn
Carnevale Law OfficeWhitby
NADI LawWhitby
The Regional Municipality of DurhamWhitby

 

Hamilton

Employer NameLocation
Ministry of the Attorney General - Crown Attorney's Office Criminal Law DivisionHamilton
Scarfone Hawkins LLPHamilton
Evans, PhilpHamilton

 

South Western Ontario

Employer NameLocation
Ministry of Attorney General - Crown Attorney's Office - Brantford, Cayuga and SimcoeBrantford
Waterous Holden Amey HitchonBrantford
Madorin, SnyderKitchener
Cohen HighleyLondon
Lakin Afolabi Law Professional CorporationLondon
Simpson Law Professional CorporationLondon
Miller ThomsonLondon
Carters Professional CorporationOrangeville
Ministry of the Attorney General - SarniaSarnia
Brock UniversitySt. Catharines
PROTOMANNI & ASSOCIATES PROFESSIONAL CORPORATIONSt. Catharines
Bartlet & RichardesWindsor
Children's Aid SocietyWindsor
Halliwill SeguinWindsor
Kirwin PartnersWindsor
McTague Law FirmWindsor
Mousseau DeLuca McPherson PrinceWindsor
Shibley Righton LLPWindsor
Strosberg Sasso Sutts LLPWindsor
The Corporation of the City of Windsor - Corporate Services, Legal DepartmentWindsor
Willis Business LawWindsor
Greg Monforton and PartnersWindsor
Legal Assistance of WindsorWindsor
Miller Canfield LLPWindsor

 

Northern Ontario

Employer NameLocation
CheadlesThunder Bay
Girones LawyersTimmins
Mendonca Law Office Professional CorporationTimmins

 

Manitoba/Saskatchewan/Yukon

Employer NameLocation
Miller ThomsonRegina

 

East Coast Canada/Quebec

Employer NameLocation
New Brunswick Court of AppealFredericton
Department of Justice - Competition BureauGatineau
Environment and Climate Change CanadaGatineau
McInnes Cooper LLPHalifax
Nova Scotia Court of AppealHalifax
The Centre for Law and DemocracyHalifax
Raoul Wallenberg: Centre for Human RightsMontreal
Canadian Space AgencySaint-Hubert
Department of Justice and Public Safety, Government of Newfoundland and LabradorSt. John's

 

New York/International

Employer NameLocation
Embassy of Canada to GermanyBerlin
Mission of Canada to the European UnionBrussels
Embassy of Canada to DebmarkCopenhagen
United Nations Relief and Works AgencyJerusalem
Loyens & LoeffLuxemburg
STUDIO UBERTAZZIMilan
Freshfields Brukhaus Deringer LLPParis
Zyme WorksSeattle