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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Main Office: 650 Page Mill Road | Palo Alto | CA | 94304-1050
Phone: 650-493-9300 | Fax: 650-493-6811
I highly recommend Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati - the selective hiring process creates a great work experience for all employees.
Our interactions with Donna Hill were memorable due to her professional conduct and thought-provoking questions.
Harrison Barnes

Founder of BCG Attorney Search and America's top legal recruiter

BCG Attorney Search works with over 25,000 law firms. Every month, ten of thousands of attorneys submitted their resume to Harrison and he works with less than 2% of them. Harrison knows quality and dose whatever it takes to get his candidates jobs: Since 2000, Harrison has personally made thousands of placements and is by far the most effective legal placement professional in history.

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Reviewed on March 23, 2021
Former Employee

Please if you keep a person working there with a Racing then I will let the world know the company is Racing and Asian Hate. Seriously this is not working good for your business Thank you

Well! The business Law firm is great.

The worst at this Law Firm was , the Manager at Seattle location is so Racist. The Manager at Seattle location is so racist between Asian and Black. Was wondering there almost 5 years, before his is hired me his still contract with WSGR and then his quick some how his come back was hired by Manager Karen being her Office Assistant after that Karen has be retired so his be coming in manager at Seattle location, so then after his fired me because I am a Asian community and his support the Black community. I have other reason about him was, there is other co- worker of me was injured when his went on vacation at Nevada couples of day and his had to be on hospice couples of month, but his still comeback to work work normal, but me when I am illness is only one week in hospital and while I am in hospital his is told me I am no longer be working with WSGR any more. Anyway O would like to know after almost 5 be there working hard stay late every days when no one there and I have fired with out no reason. So I need who CEO this company will answer for me please. Thank you

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Former Employee

2019

Contract

Reviewed on December 18, 2017
Former Employee

I would like to see more promotions given to those that have worked hard and have put in the time and effort to get where they are.

ALL of the staff members here are very friendly and easy to socialize with. I also felt as though the starting pay was exceptional.

There is a real lack of sense of progress in terms of growth at this firm. It is hard to tell where you stand and I did not see many promotions take place during my stay here.

Former Employee

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Overview

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the premier legal advisor to technology, life sciences, and other growth enterprises worldwide. We represent companies at every stage of development, from entrepreneurial start-ups to multibillion-dollar global corporations, as well as the venture firms, private equity firms, and investment banks that finance and advise them. The firm's broad range of services and practice areas are focused on addressing the principal challenges faced by the management, boards of directors, shareholders, and in-house counsel of our clients.


Practice Areas

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati practices law in the following areas and works with its clients to provide the best possible legal solutions.

Hiring Criteria

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati follows the set of hiring criteria outlined below.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati recruits third-year law students whose academic and professional experience will enhance the quality and breadth of the services they provide to their clients. Interested candidates must submit their applications along with their cover letter, r

Pro bono

The firm has a strong commitment to Pro bono and believes in enhancing the communities in which they live and work by providing legal services, financial support, and volunteer services to worthy agencies and individuals in need.

The firm provides first-rate legal services to people and organizations with limited means. The firm devotes three percent of their total billable hours to pro bono activities and attorneys are always encouraged to contribute to the firm's pro bono effort.

In fiscal year 2012 alone, the firm's attorneys and other professionals provided more than 36,000 hours of pro bono legal work across the country. Over the years, Wilson Sonsini attorneys have provided pro bono assistance to approximately 400 nonprofit agencies in fields such as healthcare, education, the arts, and the environment, as well as to numerous individuals.

The firm's services have ranged from defending an appeal of a groundbreaking $4 million verdict against a former operative of a Chilean dictatorship to defending a former federal prosecutor against unfair claims of copyright infringement brought by a major non-practicing entity. The firm has also secured a favorable UN ruling regarding the illegal arrest and detention of a prominent Iranian human rights activist and represented victims of persecution in a diverse array of discrimination, domestic violence, and asylum cases.

The firm has been widely recognized for its pro bono efforts. The State Bar of California honored the firm's efforts with its President's Pro Bono Service Award in the large firm category and the firm has received the Bar Association of San Francisco's Outstanding Law Firm in Public Service Award.

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Wilson Sonsini is consistently ranked among the leading law firms in each of its central practice areas. Additionally, its lawyers are consistently recognized as industry leaders and ranked among the best practitioners worldwide.

In the 2012 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and a significant number of its partners and practice areas were recognized once again for excellence.

The firm is consistently recognized among Global Competition Review's "Global Elite"-a list of the top 20 competition firms in the world

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati ranked as one of the best antitrust practices worldwide in Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business and as one of the best antitrust practices in the United States in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati was ranked No. 2 overall in The American Lawyer's Diversity Scorecard for the year 2012. Furthermore, in 2012 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati was ranked No. 4 on MultiCultural Law magazine's list of the "Top 100 Law Firms for Diversity.

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As a firm that has built its reputation on adapting to change and serving a progressive clientele, Wilson Sonsini is well aware of the worth that diverse points of view, diverse know-how, and diverse backgrounds bring to an organization. Over the past five years, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has ranked among the top firms in California for highest percentage of minority attorneys. The firm considers it a crucial part of their work ethic and feel that it lends the firm a vitality that benefits both the employees and clients.

The firm's leadership actively promotes diversity as a core value and top priority with the aim to attract, mentor, and retain the best legal talent from all backgrounds, and foster a culture in which all employees are empowered to achieve their maximum potential.

Almost a third of the firm's partners and half of the firms associates are women or belong to a racial, ethnic, or gender minority group. Whilst organizing its internal and external programs as well as in its framing of policies diversity is a value the firm takes into paramount consideration. The firm has been recognized for its diversity efforts and constantly been ranked amongst the top law firms in diversity, especially for its high-percentage of minority staff and attorneys.

With its forward-looking policies and continual attempts to improve on its diversity programs, the firm helps set a conducive environment for hiring and promoting women and minorities in both partner and management positions throughout the legal profession.

Summer associate program

The firm considers its Summer Associate Program as a valuable source of attorney recruitment. It believes that the supportive and dynamic environment the firm provides will prepare the law students to pursue a rewarding career, hopefully at Wilson Sonsini.

Summer at the firm incorporates all the things that are vital in understanding and assimilating the firm's work culture: challenging and varied work assignments, direct working relationships with innovative clients, exposure to a wide range of practicing attorneys, a comprehensive training program, and exciting social activities, that include dinners, cocktail parties, picnics, and barbeques, that allow the students to interact with one another and get to know each other in a friendly cordial atmosphere.

The program is envisaged and prepared to provide the law students an opportunity to observe and participate in the work of the nation's leading provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises. The program includes top-quality legal work with entrepreneurial clients and summer associates get to work with a talented team of attorneys.

The firm believes that the program will give the law students ample opportunities to learn more about the firm and its different areas of practice. Supervising attorneys provided liberal guidance and constructive feedback at the end of every project.

Each summer associate is assigned an associate mentor who plays an active role throughout the summer, helping to identify areas of interest, pursue assignments in those practice areas, and provide guidance, perspective, and insight.

Working for the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati welcomes talented people and is always receptive to those who are interested in joining the firm. Candidates seeking employment can be assured of a unique work environment that fosters an entrepreneurial spirit and team-oriented approach that they won't find at other law firms.

Every day, the employees of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati have the opportunity to work with exciting clients striving to develop products and services that will change the world. The firm's client base includes the who's who of prominent technology companies and other well-known growth enterprises, as well as numerous start-up companies poised to become tomorrow's industry leaders.

In addition Wilson Sonsini offers generous and competitive employee benefits and provides both attorneys and staff with continuous training and career development programs designed to help the candidates achieve their professional goals.

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