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young lawyers who are entrepreneurial minded.
We are certainly in our firm expecting to see
growth," says Stack. "I would consider us to
have a good component of young lawyers here."
And those young lawyers will be integral in the
succession plans of the firm's cohort of senior
counsel approaching retirement.
Many of the 660 lawyers in Saskatoon's legal
community can trace their legal roots back to
the University of Saskatchewan's College of Law.
The school has graduated a prime minister, two
premiers, several members of Parliament, and
members of the Saskatchewan Legislature. Each
year more than 1,000 people apply for the 126
seats the law school offers in the first year class
and approximately 115 graduate annually.
"On average we see 50 to 60 applicants in the
firm each year. We just went through a recruit-
ment process. We had a record number of 75 applications,"
says Tiffany Paulsen, a partner at Robertson Stromberg since
2008 who chairs the firm's recruitment and retention com-
mittee. She says typically most of the applicants "about 80 per
cent" went to the U of S College of Law. "We are seeing more
and more students who either want to stay in Saskatchewan
or they come here from somewhere else and recognize their
job prospects are strong in Saskatchewan and they want to
stay."
Robertson Stromberg can trace its origins back to 1918
when Saskatoon was still very much in its infancy. Many influ-
ential lawyers founded the firm including James Wilfred Estey,
who went on to be attorney general for Saskatchewan and later
a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Paulsen is another lawyer fast becoming influential. She
served on Saskatoon City Council since 2000 becoming the
youngest person ever elected. Again, when she received the
Queen's Counsel, Paulsen was one of the youngest to receive
the distinction in Saskatchewan. And by age 37, she married
