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About Ridout & Maybee LLP
Founded in 1893, and with offices in Toronto, Ottawa, and Mississauga, Ridout & Maybee LLP is internationally recognized as an intellectual property firm of exceptional client commitment and quality. Providing IP expertise to clients around the world, the firm’s professionals include top practitioners in patent, trade-mark, copyright, industrial design and intellectual property litigation. Our professionals come from a variety of pre-law backgrounds including, electrical engineering, biotechnology, chemistry and physics. We strive for high productivity, superior client satisfaction and continuing professional development.
Ridout & Maybee’s longstanding history and culture is a result of its ability to attract dynamic personalities with a keen, hard working interest in IP and the desire to maintain a collegial, balanced work/life environment. Our success is based on our people and culture which are central to the firm’s core values.
Primary Practice Areas
Ridout & Maybee provides legal services in all aspects of IP including patents (mechanical, industrial, electrical & high tech, biotechnology, chemical, pharmaceutical and information technology), Plant Breeders’ Rights, Integrated Circuit Topographies, trade marks, copyright, industrial designs, trade secrets, all forms of IP litigation, licensing, IP transactions, domain names, mediation and arbitration.
Summer/Articling Student Program
The Ridout & Maybee LLP Summer Student & Articling Program is designed to provide you with the opportunity to work with a team of talented, diverse, and highly qualified intellectual property practitioners in a boutique firm setting.
Summer and articling students work under the supervision of IP professionals and are encouraged to work on all forms of intellectual property matters including patents, trade-marks, copyright, industrial designs, trade secrets and the litigation thereof. Students can expect to be involved in the preparation of letters, documents, research memoranda, patent, trade-mark & copyright applications, office actions/prosecution work and a variety of litigation issues such the preparation of pleadings, evidence, motion records, affidavits and the like.
There is no formal rotation system as our practice is restricted to intellectual property law.
Summer and Articling student positions are available in our Toronto, Ottawa and Mississauga offices for the 2009-2010 term.
Compensation and Benefits
Summer and Articling students receive a competitive salary reflective of market conditions. Articling students also receive:
- A tuition bonus;
- Bar Admission Course applications fees;
- Fees for the skills and professional responsibility program;
- Fees for one sitting of each of the licensing examinations;
- Vacation, sick days and exam preparation days as set out by the Law Society of Upper Canada;
- Group insurance benefits and a fitness reimbursement program.
How to Apply
To apply to our Toronto and/or Mississauga offices, please contact Stephen Martin at 416.865.3508 or smartin@ridoutmaybee.com, Fax 416.362.0823.
To apply to our Ottawa office, please contact Tim Bourne at 613.236.3807 or tbourne@ridoutmaybee.com, Fax 613.236.2485.
To apply, please submit the following: cover letter, resume, copy of undergraduate (and graduate, if any) transcripts, copy of law school transcripts, list of upper year courses, and any information relevant to your interest in and pursuit of a career in intellectual property.
Application Deadlines:
Submission deadlines for Toronto and
Submissions for 2010 summer student positions in the Ottawa office must be received on or before October 9, 2009. Submissions for articling positions in the Ottawa office must be received on or before May 17, 2010.
*DISLCAIMER: Ridout & Maybee adheres to the Procedures Governing the Recruitment of Students for summer and articling positions as set out by the Law Society of Upper Canada (“LSUC”). All dates noted above are for convenience only, may be subject to change in accordance with the LSUC procedures and guidelines, should not be relied upon and applicants are encouraged to visit www.lsuc.on.ca for further information.
