Intellectual property or other legal strategy challenges? 
Law students are your solution

AT MITACS WE WORK WITH YOU TO BRING YOUR IDEAS TO MARKET

$10,000 award available to law students working on IP, business strategy, or projects linked to the pandemic

Leverage your budget

Build and strengthen connections to universities

Access emerging legal talent and build a talent pipeline

YOUR KEY BENEFITS

Mitacs helps with the innovation you need to grow your business requires time, talent, and budget. 

Mitacs can help you leverage your investment, making your budget go further, and helping you achieve the best possible ROI. 

With 14,000 collaborations and 80 innovation project experts, Mitacs is a leader in Canada’s innovation ecosystem. No matter your business or sector, we embrace your innovation challenges

• Companies of any size
• Eligible projects include intellectual property and IP strategy, business strategy, new products or services, or changes in organizational structure
  
• Law firms, legal departments, not-for-profit organizations, municipalities, and hospitals

WHAT WE DO

NO MATTER YOUR COMPANY OR SECTOR, WE WORK WITH YOU

SUCCESS STORIES

Change is inevitable. But in the manufacturing sector, one must be at the forefront of change or else risk your bottom line. Productique Québec prepares Canadian manufacturers for a digital future

© Copyright 2020, Mitacs. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW 

Like companies everywhere, law firms, businesses, corporate legal departments, and not-for-profit organizations are pivoting to respond to challenges — both internal and external — brought about by the rapidly changing economic environment. 

In partnership with participating Canadian law schools, Mitacs has launched a new initiative: a $10,000 internship program to provide law firms, companies and not-for-profit organizations with the support of law students through a four-month long project.  

ds

ds

You get the knowledge and expertise from outstanding law students, while students gain real-world experience.

• $10K for a four-month project: your contribution is only $5K 
• Eligible projects must have a connection to intellectual property, business strategy, or be related to a response to the pandemic
  
• Applications are accepted any time until March 8, 2021. Projects must start by July 15, 2021
• Open to law firms, businesses, legal departments, not-for-profit organizations, municipalities, and hospitals
• Please note that law student interns can provide legal information; if legal advice is required then the student must be supervised by a lawyer in good standing with the provincial law society 
  

Need assistance with IP or business strategy projects? law students can help!

SO, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

"From an immigrant’s perspective who is very new in this market, there is nothing more helpful than getting a locally trained graduate or student to provide support in business strategy. As a new entrepreneur myself, I lack operational knowledge, specifically in expanding and scaling profitability. I may be able to start an innovative venture on my own, but tapping into Mitacs’s BSI program is a gateway to bigger possibilities and opportunities."

Lian Delos Reyes

Founder, Milksta Inc.

ds

HOW WE HELP YOU ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS

• An 80-member Business Development team, embedded at Canadian post-secondary institutions, identifies the right expertise to address your business challenges
• Law student talent to help with the challenges you are facing
  
• Leverage your budget
• Concurrent or consecutive projects are possible

For nurses in a Montréal hospital’s intensive care unit, as in any ICU, an alert from a patient’s monitor can mean life or death. So, a Mitacs intern helped develop a high-tech headset to sort vital signals from ambient noise