Job Title: Summer Associate
Job Responsibilities:
- Participate in a comprehensive orientation program with the entire Summer Associate Program leadership team, meeting colleagues and engaging in legal training sessions.
- Engage in real work experiences, drafting memos, agreements, and briefs that clients and judges will review.
- Attend client meetings, closings, court conferences, depositions, and trials, gaining exposure to the legal process.
- Handle a pro bono project, showcasing the firm's commitment to public service.
- Participate in legal skills workshops focusing on essential attorney skills, including contract drafting, negotiation, legal research memoranda, bluebooking, and marketing writing skills.
- Receive evaluations and feedback on assignments from assigning attorneys, with mid-summer and end-of-program evaluations that mirror the associate evaluation process.
- Engage in the Writing Advisor Program, receiving private feedback from an assigned writing advisor, typically a partner at the firm, who will evaluate your written work product and provide ongoing dialogue about your writing skills.
Education and Experience Information:
- Targeted at motivated second-year law students.
- Candidates should have excellent academic performance and diverse interests.
- Enthusiasm for the practice of law is essential.
Salary Information:
- No specific salary information is provided in the text.
Additional Program Information:
- **Members Only**'s Summer Associate Program aims to provide an accurate sense of life as a full-time associate at the law firm.
- The program includes community and social events, such as cooking classes, museum tours, axe-throwing, escape rooms, and dinners at restaurants and partners' homes.
- Opportunities to meet public figures and judges who are friends and alumni of the firm are part of the program.
- Volunteer opportunities include prepping meals for individuals living with illnesses and participating in a beach cleanup day.
- The program offers practical training and candid feedback, with support from experienced Summer Associate Program leadership, mentors, and a Writing Advisor Program.
- The application for the 2026 2L summer associate program opens on May 1, 2025, and applications should be submitted via the law firm's website.
