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Ropes & Gray LLP.

Main Office: Prudential Tower, 800 Boylston Street | Boston | MA | 02199
Phone: 617-951-7000 | Fax: 617-951-7050

Ropes & Gray LLP. follows the set of hiring criteria outlined below.

Hiring Criteria

Joining Ropes and Gray for a legal career is considered a singular achievement in the legal world. The firm expects a strong academic performance at undergraduate schools and a demonstrated record of leadership, initiative as well as integrity. In all, the firm visited 28 law schools in 2011 and 5 job fairs for its hiring purposes. The firm usually chooses its candidates via campus recruiting and campus interviews. Some of the schools that are included in the firm's hiring itinerary are as below:

American University
Washington College of Law
Boston College Law School
Boston University School of Law
Brooklyn Law School
Columbia University Law School
Duke University School of Law
Fordham University School of Law
George Washington University Law School
Georgetown University Law Center
Harvard Law School
Hofstra University School of Law
Howard University School of Law
New York University School of Law
Northeastern University School of Law
Northwestern University School of Law
Santa Clara University School of Law
Stanford Law School
Suffolk University Law School
UCLA School of Law
University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
University of Chicago Law School
University of Michigan Law School
University of North Carolina School of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
University of Virginia School of Law
Vanderbilt University Law School
Yale Law School

In addition to choosing candidates via campus interviews, the firm also selects from job fairs and consortia such as:

BLG Job Fair
Cornell Job Fair
Lavender Law Conference
Loyola Patent Fair
Texas Job Fair

The firm appreciates hearing from qualified candidates who meet its criteria of hiring.

Pro bono

At Ropes and Gray, commitment to Pro Bono is the hallmark of the firm. It is engrained in the example that the firm's founders had set more than a hundred and fifty years ago. The firm's pro bono activities includes work such as securing asylum for immigrants in danger to helping people keep their homes to winning the release of the wrongly convicted and a host of other benevolent and altruistic activities.

In 2011, the staff of over 1,000 attorneys, paralegals, as well as summer associates donated over 98,000 hours worth of legal services. This is worth an estimated $42 million in today's expenses. Ropes and Gray was recognized in 2011 by the American Bar Association's business law section with its National Public Service Award, It is also ranked as #17 on the American Lawyer's prestigious A-List prominently due to its pro bono activities.

The firm's pro bono activities are wide-ranging and encompass a wide area of the law. Ropes and Gray actively demonstrates its ongoing commitment to public service. It actively encourages its lawyers to engage its pro bono work, which is equally valued for associate reviews as well as compensations. An active pro bono committee oversees pro bono activities at the firm. They identify probable initiatives besides nurturing and fostering the firm's pro bono program.