The City of Vaughan Articling Program
The City's Legal Services department strives to be strategic and collaborative legal advisors, leading with integrity and delivering innovative results.
The department is currently divided into four practice areas:
• Municipal Law, including contract and construction law;
• Litigation, including insurance, labour and employment;
• Planning litigation, as well development and policy advice;
• Real Estate, including conveyances and development agreements.
The department provides legal services to all City departments, related municipal corporations and library board, as well as Vaughan Council. As a result, our areas of practice are vast and varied, and include:
Your Articling Experience
Our articling students are given valuable hands-on experience and responsibilities within a friendly and supportive environment. Because the City of Vaughan provides a broad range of public services (including water distribution, construction of roads and buildings, land use planning within the community, as well as the operation of the City administration itself), students articling with the City of Vaughan are exposed to a variety of legal issues within our practice areas. Over each articling period, our students rotate through the four practice areas noted above, getting exposure to the various areas of law affecting municipal corporations.