Students: About Alexander Holburn
You have many choices when finding a firm at which to article. We provide some "fast facts" about Alexander Holburn to assist you in determining whether we are the right fit for you.
Students: About Alexander Holburn
Welcome to the student site section of the Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang LLP website.
You are likely here because you are a law student looking for a place to article, either for the summer or for your final articling year. As many articled students go on to become Associates and Partners of a law firm, selection of an articling firm can be a weighty decision. How do you decide which firm to interview with?
We provide the following "fast facts" about Alexander Holburn's practice and culture in order to help you determine whether our firm is the right fit for you.
For more information about our firm overall, please see our Firm Overview section.
Alexander Holburn is a dynamic firm. We embrace the skill and integrity required to achieve legal excellence, but also value personality, creativity, and team work. In so doing, we are able to provide superior legal service to our clients and create an exceptional environment in which to work.
Alexander Holburn is a leading Vancouver-based law firm of over 70 lawyers. Our clients include people and corporations in virtually all sectors of the local, national, and international economies. We provide a wide range of litigation/dispute resolution and business law services in over 22 practice areas. To learn more about these groups, please see our Practice Groups section.
Our firm has been independently recognized for providing pre-eminent legal services to our clients. Martindale-Hubbell has given Alexander Holburn the highest possible rating for a law firm. We were also ranked as one of the top ten regional Western Canadian firms in Canadian Lawyer’s April 2010 survey.
Many of our programs and products reflect the creative energy we encourage in our firm. These programs and products include:
• Ascend™ Training Program: One of the most comprehensive in-house training programs of law firms in the country, our Ascend™ program includes over 100 sessions annually in law, technology, and business related topics.
• Client Service Program: In order to support our desire to provide superior client service, we have created a program which includes an annual client survey, a newsletter, the Reach™ Award for outstanding client service by a staff member, and several additional initiatives.
• Sustainability Program: Alexander Holburn is committed to sustainable business practices. Our goal is to lessen our impact on the environment through education and implementation of sustainable practices in the workplace as well as at home.
• Foundations™ and Smart Series™: We have created several modular, fixed-fee legal products in order to enable companies to obtain specific legal services with price predictability.
• Speaker Series: Our Speaker Series is aimed at providing ongoing legal education to our clients in various industries, to assist with their risk management and accommodate their own professional development requirements.
Our culture is predicated upon our core values of teamwork, balance, and trust. We work in a friendly, supportive, and motivated environment. We are extremely client-focused and provide exceptional service. We recognize that the practice of law requires commitment and hard work. That being said, we also value our personal and family time, and we seek to support each other in achieving that balance. We are enormously proud of our commitment to our practice and the quality of our work, but we are also proud of our ability to maintain a large firm practice with the close relationships and informal atmosphere of a smaller firm.
For more general information about our firm, click here. For more information about summer articles, the articling rotation or our hiring perspective, please click on the appropriate button, above.
Should you have any additional questions regarding our firm or our student programs, please feel free to contact Christine York, our Director of Associates and Students.
