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Summer Associate in Salt Lake City, UT

Parsons Behle & Latimer Mar 22,2016 Dec 18,2015 Location USA Salt Lake City UT
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Summer Associate

Litigation - Foreclosure (Lender-side)

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Summer Associate Program, 2016 The training program introduces summer associates to the practical aspects of legal practice through a variety of well-planned and monitored assignments. Group orientations provide summer associates an opportunity to meet fellow summer associates, members of the recruiting committee, administrative staff and lawyers of the firm. Summer associates also receive training reference materials, performance expectations and essential logistics and administrative support information. Summer associates develop skills and enhance legal knowledge through the experience of project completion and regular interaction with firm lawyers. Summer associates receive assignments that expose them to all areas of practice within the firm. The firm places emphasis on substantive, legal analysis and advocacy writing. Summer associates will perform a wide variety of tasks throughout the training period that may include the following: conduct legal research and obtain documents; analyze and summarize factual information and draft research memoranda and briefs; digest, summarize and abstract depositions and hearing transcripts; assist in deposition, hearing and trial preparation; assist in preparing for closing of business or real property transactions; assist in review and documentation of business transactions; assist in review and preparation of environmental compliance audits; assist in review of records and documentation of real property title opinions; attend public meetings, business negotiations and closings; organize trial exhibits; examine public records - title opinions; assist in preparation of trial exhibits and books; cite check and shepardize; draft pleadings; draft pre-trial orders and settlement conference memoranda; attend depositions, administrative proceedings, hearings, trials and arbitrations; and draft contracts and related business transaction documents. The firm conducts legal writing and research development seminars to address the specific needs of law students. This instruction, which may include review and critique of former summer associate projects, becomes the basis for progress evaluations conducted throughout the summer. Research reference manuals are distributed to each summer associate at the beginning of the summer program. The firm arranges weekly presentations on topics ranging from professional responsibility to attorneys personal insights into specific areas of law practice. The speakers are senior-level members of the firm who welcome questions from the summer associates. Each summer associate is assigned projects that attorneys have requested and submitted to the Human Resources Director for distribution. Each summer associate completes at least one substantive writing project that is carefully selected and reviewed by a legal writing mentor, after which there is flexibility to accommodate specific areas of interest and requests. Summer associates prepare motions, pleadings, research memoranda, leases, conveyances and transactional documents as well as conducting legal research, document control and discovery efforts. The firm encourages summer associates to attend trials, administrative proceedings, hearings, depositions, closings and arbitrations. When appropriate, summer associates may attend internal client meetings, department and strategy meetings and business negotiations. First-year and second-year law students (and sometimes third-year law students with judicial clerkships) will be considered. The average training period is 10-12 weeks during summer break, usually beginning in May or June and ending in mid to late August.

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