Articling Student, ICLC (Indigenous Community Legal Clinic)

Location: hirify.global Vancouver Campus, Vancouver, BC, Canada. On-site position; no hybrid work opportunities.

Salary: $4,886.58–$7,019.33 CAD monthly. The position is full time and lasts 12 months for the 2027–28 articling term.

Company

The Indigenous Community Legal Clinic at the Peter A. Allard School of Law provides free legal services to Indigenous people in British Columbia and practical legal education for law students.

What you will do

• Explain clinic services, interview potential clients by phone or in person, and triage Indigenous people into available legal support services.
• Compile and review client intake materials with supervising lawyers and support decisions on assistance, file opening, and scope of work.
• Provide supervised legal services on court matters and support advocacy for clinic clients.
• Research case law, legislation, legal manuals, and databases; prepare factums, legal opinion letters, research memoranda, and client correspondence.
• Prepare, file, and serve legal documents and court materials, including affidavits, applications, pleadings, notices of motion, written submissions, trial books, books of authorities, and books of evidence.
• Organize calendars, meetings, databases, precedents, templates, clinical intakes, and deadline tracking, while providing backup support to legal assistants.

Requirements

• Completed Canadian J.D. or LL.B. degree, or a Certificate of Qualification from the National Committee on Accreditation (NCA).
• Eligible to enroll as an articled student with the Law Society of British Columbia.
• Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives that conflict with one’s own, and commitment to developing awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
• Ability to communicate and relate to Indigenous people and their communities, with sensitivity to Indigenous issues and awareness of the Indigenous community’s cultural diversity.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, empathy, discretion, confidentiality, and professionalism under the ICLC Code of Conduct and Law Society Rules.
• Ability to work independently and in a team, take instructions, use initiative, make independent decisions, handle multiple priorities, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work effectively with people who have low incomes, disabilities, limited literacy, mental disabilities, or other disadvantages, including distressed, demanding, or hostile clients.
• Ability to draft routine correspondence, organize workload, identify urgent items, and cope with a heavy workload.

Nice to have

• Graduate of Allard School of Law, formerly hirify.global Law.
• Successful completion of the ICLC program.
• Understanding of Indigenous history, including the impacts of Residential Schools, relevant legislation, and legal issues.
• Superior legal research and writing skills.
• Strong preference for PREP to be completed within Vancouver.

Culture & Benefits

• Work directly with an Indigenous community legal clinic serving a historically underserved and marginalized community.
• Gain practical, hands-on experience in advocacy, social justice, court work, and client representation.
• Collaborate with supervising lawyers, legal assistants, pro bono lawyers, Crown prosecutors, provincial court judges, law students, community participants, volunteers, and affiliates.
• Contribute to free legal services and legal education within the Allard School of Law.

Hiring process

• Submit an application through the hirify.global Careers Page.
• Include a cover letter, resume, law school transcripts, and writing sample.