Articling Rotation Information

Articling students rotate through different legal practice areas within Legal Services Branch (LSB). Each rotation is between four and twelve weeks and articling students can determine which rotations they would like to make up their articling year, with the assistance of the Chair of the Articling Student Committee, the Manager of the Articling Program, and their Principal.

In addition to the legal practice areas described below, articling students can rotate through a private bar rotation to gain experience in a different legal setting and to gain expertise in those few areas that LSB does not practice, such as wills and estates. Salary and benefits of the articling student are paid by LSB, making these rotations attractive to the private bar.

Articling students may also rotate with the BC Prosecution Service.

For the purposes of articles, legal practice areas are separated into barrister rotations, solicitor rotations, and mixed barrister & solicitor rotations:

Barrister rotations

• Litigation Group
• Director’s Counsel (Child Protection)
• BC Prosecution Service (Regional and CASP Rotations)

Solicitor rotations

• Office of the Assistant Deputy Attorney General
• Central Services Group
• Office of Legislative Counsel
• Justice Services Branch

Mixed barrister and solicitor rotations

• Natural Resources, Transportation and Indigenous Legal Group
• Indigenous Legal Relations
• Justice, Health and Revenue Group
• Vancouver Group
• Civil Resolution Tribunal
• Private Bar