McGuireWoods LLP.

Practice Areas

McGuireWoods LLP. practices law in the following areas and works with its clients to provide the best possible legal solutions.

Hiring Criteria

McGuireWoods LLP. follows the set of hiring criteria outlined below.

As the firm continues to grow larger, McGuireWoods has an extremely stringent hiring process. In general, it recruits only from the top one-third of the graduating class from select law schools. In addition to academic performance at both graduate and undergraduate levels, the firm considers pervious work experience and a demonstrated passion for the law.

Here are some of the skills that the firm looks for in prospective hires:

Excellent academic performance
Demonstrated leadership potential
Prior relevant work experience
Law school extracurricular involvement
Strong desire and drive to succeed
Ability and willingness to take up challenges
Strong commercial sense

Pro bono

An important core value of McGuireWoods is the firm's commitment to the communities around its offices. The firm's attorneys believe that it is not sufficient for them to just do their work and go home at the end of the workday; they are strongly committed to serving the communities in which the live and work. The firm also provides full credit of the pro bono hours as billable hours to its attorneys, which further ensures that nothing detracts its attorneys from their commitment to the communities they serve.

As part of the firm's commitment to the communities, McGuireWoods handles a significant amount of pro bono work including battered spouse representations, child support enforcement prosecutions, court-appointed criminal defense, death penalty cases, housing law cases, and wills and powers of attorney. The firm provides free legal services and general counseling on a wide variety of legal issues to several local non-profit groups, including The Children's Law Center.

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Notable cases

12 partners named "Lawyers of the Year" (Best Lawyers in America, 2013)

6 partners named Texas "Super Lawyers" (Texas Super Lawyers magazine & Texas Monthly magazine, 2012)

Litigation practice recognized as a "Litigation Powerhouse: Class Action and Tort" (BTI Litigation Outlook: Changes, Trends and Opportunities for Law Firms survey, 2013)

Ranked No. 1 bond counsel firm in the Southeast region of the United States (The Bond Buyer, 2012)

201 firm attorneys named to Best Lawyers in America (The Best Lawyers in America, 2013)

Recognized in the American Health Lawyers Association's annual "Top Honors" rankings (AHLA Connections, 2012)

Recognized in annual Raising the Bar report as one of the top law firms in the state with a growing commitment to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and inclusiveness in the workplace (Equality Illinois, 2012)

Ranked 4th nationally in Number of Syndicated Debt Finance Transactions in U.S. Lender Law Firm League Table rankings (Thomson Reuters Loan Pricing Corporation, 2012)

McGuireWoods defines diversity as recognizing and valuing the differences in its workforce. An Equal Opportunity Employer, the firm strictly follows a non-discrimination policy for all applicants and employees. The partners strive hard to ensure that there is no discrimination on the basis of age, color, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other unlawful basis, either in the recruitment process or in the annual attorney assessments.

The firm believes that fostering diversity, equality, and inclusion helps it to attract the best talent from across the continents and build the most effective teams that enable the firm to deliver the highest level of service to its clients. These values are apparent in every aspect of the firm and the way it conducts business with its clients.

In fact, as a testament to its commitment to diversity, McGuireWoods is a proud signatory of the most recent effort of New Your City's Bar Association to foster a more diverse and inclusive profession, i.e., of the statement written by the association's Committee to Enhance Diversity in the Profession.

Summer associate program

McGuireWoods conducts interviews at several law schools for the selection of 2L students for its Summer Associate Program. The Recruiting Committee takes into consideration the students' geographic preferences and practice areas of interest, along with academic performance and extracurricular activities, while reviewing the applications and usually informs the selected students of the decision within two weeks of the interview.

As a summer associate at McGuireWoods, one is encouraged to take up assignments related to a wide range of practice areas. The assigning attorneys typically evaluate a summer associate's assignment on the following criteria:

understanding of projects

analysis and judgment

quality of legal reasoning

writing skills

interaction with the attorneys on project teams

At the end of the program, the Recruiting Committee reviews all the evaluations conducted by the supervising attorneys and the comments given by these attorneys in order to make offer determinations. These offers are typically made for a specific office, taking into consideration the summer associate's preferences for location and practice area.

Working for the McGuireWoods LLP.

As an attorney at McGuireWoods, you will enjoy all the benefits that a large-sized, resource-rich firm can offer along with those of working in a close-knit, supportive environment. The firm holds dear is five core values-Client Service, Commitment to Excellence, Community, Collegiality, and Integrity-and these values are reflected in everything that the firm does.

McGuireWoods truly admires enterprise and imagination in its employees and focuses on maintaining diversity within its ranks. With its diverse set of 900+ legal professionals who are abound with energy, committed to working in a collaborative environment and helping their clients succeed, and extremely intelligent and ambitious, McGuireWoods provides its attorneys with the opportunity to work with kindred spirits and exceptional mentors who lead them toward an extraordinary legal career.

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