CAMH's legal service department offers articling and summer student internships for those students looking for a high caliber in-house placement dedicated to supporting an internationally recognized psychiatric healthcare facility.
Legal Services at CAMH
CAMH's Legal Services department provides legal advice to CAMH staff, clinicians and management through its 10 in-house legal counsel. The advice provided is both general and specialized as the scope of legal issues at a complex organization such as CAMH is varied and wide. As in house counsel, we strive to be proactively involved in decision-making such that legal risk is avoided. Students working within Legal Services can expect to support our team in providing advice in any of the following areas:
- Clinical-legal matters
- Privacy Advice
- Requests for disclosure
- Regulated College matters
- Incident management and complaint response
- Legislative review and compliance
- Policy development & review
- Issues re clinical documentation
- Contract Review
- Research Agreement Review
- Corporate Legal Matters
- Police Interaction
- Corporate Governance
Other than the general areas mentioned above, CAMH Legal Services provides expert support in the following key areas:
- Consent and Capacity Board Matters
- Forensic Ontario Review Board Matters
- Contract Drafting and Negotiation
- Legal Services to CAMH’s Research Department
Students can expect to have focused training and experience in one or more of these areas.
Please note that CAMH’s Legal Services does not provide legal support to CAMH patients. Those services are provided by highly capable external lawyers.
