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Hanson Bridgett LLP

Main Office: 425 Market Street, 26th floor | San Francisco | CA | 94105
Phone: 415-777-3200 | Fax: 415-541-9366

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Reviewed on July 28, 2017
Current Employee

Make HR and equal treatment of employees a higher priority on a daily basis, so that people can peacefully coexist.

There is a lot of room for personal and professional growth at Hanson Bridgett. If you are determined and make the right connections at the firm it is a great starting place for a legal career.

It seems that at Hanson Bridgett you either have a great experience or a terrible one. Some former associates have felt treated unfairly by management at times.

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Overview

Hanson Bridgett is a law firm with more than 150 attorneys in offices in San Francisco, Sacramento, the North Bay and the East Bay. Serving clients since 1958, we are well known in Northern California and have earned a national reputation in many of our practice areas. Our diverse client list includes large national and global companies as well as many governmental entities, regional businesses and individuals. While we keep true to our California roots, our work increasingly takes us across state and national borders. As a member of the Globalaw international legal network, we can provide clients with legal expertise on the ground in more than 80 countries worldwide. We are a certified B Corp and are socially responsible members of our communities. Our firm is driven by a commitment to diversity, charitable giving, pro-bono legal work and hands-on service. We are a dedicated green business and strive to make sustainable choices for all of our business decisions.


Practice Areas

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

Hiring Criteria

Hanson Bridgett LLP follows the set of hiring criteria outlined below.

Superior academics, excellent writing skills, good analytical skills, energetic, Bay Area ties and a sense of humor. We actively seek applicants with diverse backgrounds.

Pro bono

Hanson Bridgett is dedicated to providing pro bono services to individuals, organizations and businesses that cannot afford the cost of high-quality legal representation. Our attorneys handle a wide range of pro bono litigation and transactional matters with the same drive and commitment we bring to all of our client work.

We believe pro bono work benefits our firm as well as the deserving clients we serve. Our associates may receive credit toward their annual billable-hour requirements for up to 150 hours of pro bono work. In 2014, our attorneys contributed 5,700 hours of pro bono work.

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Hanson Bridgett LLP Awards and Recognitions Write a review

For the fourth year in a row, Hanson Bridgett was ranked as one of the top corporate philanthropists in the Bay Area according to the San Francisco Business Times. We are one of only four law firms to make the list.

The Recorder selected Hanson Bridgett as one of 10 leading Northern California pro bono practices.

We received the Community Partner in Sustainability award from the San Francisco Business Times at their "Beyond the Check" awards.

Legal Aid of Marin and the Marin County Bar Association honored Candice Shih with the Wiley W. Manuel award in 2015 for outstanding pro bono service.

Bay Area Legal Aid awarded Hanson Bridgett with its Pro Bono Leadership Award for being a Sustained Pro Bono Partner.

For the second time, the San Francisco Education Fund named Hanson Bridgett its Partner of the Year in recognition of our volunteer work with the students and teachers at Everett Middle School.

The AIDS Legal Referral Panel named us their Firm of the Year for our work to protect the legal rights of Bay Area residents living with HIV/AIDS.

David Abella was honored in 2013 by The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights with the Keta Taylor Colby Award for his extraordinary pro bono contributions.

Leslie Keil was honored in 2012 by The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights with the James T. Caleshu Award for her extraordinary pro bono contributions to its Legal Services for Entrepreneurs Program.

Legal Services for Children honored Hanson Bridgett with one of four 2012 Pro Bono Partner Awards.

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We feel that a workforce that reflects the needs and interests of our clients and a work environment that provides wide opportunity for people with varied backgrounds are important goals. Hanson Bridgett's commitment to diversity begins with the law schools where we seek to recruit diverse classes of summer associates and support the needs of minority students through the Gerald Marcus Fellowship, which was established in 2002. We also help students from diverse backgrounds prepare for professional careers through the firm's annual 1L Interview Workshop, now in its twelfth year. Within our firm's daily activities we have joined the effort to provide greater opportunities reflected in the BASF's Goals and Timetables and the No Glass Ceiling Initiative and undertake pro bono activities that protect the rights of underrepresented minorities.

Summer associate program

Hanson Bridgett actively recruits talented, energetic, diverse law students who share the same vision as the people who make up our firm. Our firm's main recruiting source for entry level attorneys is our summer associate program.

We conduct interviews during the fall recruiting season at regional law schools to fill between 4 to 5 summer associate positions. We purposefully keep our summer program small to maintain the cooperative and supportive environment consistent with our firm's culture. A relatively small summer program also enables our summer associates to work in all the major practice areas of our firm and to get to know the people who make up Hanson Bridgett.

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