Law Students

2020 2L On Campus Interview Schedule

• July 30 – Lavender Law Career Fair
• October 27 – Southeastern Minority Job Fair
• November 5 – Southwest Region National Black Law Students Association Job Fair
• TBD – Notre Dame Interview Program (Dallas)
• TBD – Southern Legal Interview Program (Dallas)
• TBD – Texas on Tour Interview Program (Dallas/Houston)
• TBD – Southern Methodist University
• TBD – University of Texas School of Law
• TBD – Washington University St. Louis (Dallas/Houston)
• TBD – Baylor University School of Law
• TBD – St. Mary’s School of Law

• Duke University
• South Texas College of Law
• Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law
• University of Chicago
• University of Houston School of Law
• University of Virginia
• Vanderbilt University

NALP Forms

NALP – The Association for Legal Career Professionals – is a nonprofit educational association established to meet the needs of all participants in the legal employment process. NALP’s membership includes virtually every ABA-approved law school in the U.S., many Canadian law schools, and hundreds of legal employers from both the public and private sectors.

Employers complete “NALP Forms” which provide a wealth of useful information to law students.

• 2020 Austin NALP Form
• 2020 Dallas NALP Form
• 2020 Fort Worth NALP Form
• 2020 Houston NALP Form
• 2020 San Antonio NALP Form
• 2020 Firmwide NALP Form

More Information

• Chambers Associate profile
• Vault Rankings

We offer a first-half summer program, which typically starts in mid-May and runs for nine weeks with summer associates required to work for a minimum of six weeks. We work hard to tailor the size of our program to the needs of the firm and current legal market in order to maximize the potential for students to receive full-time offers. Participants in the summer program receive the same administrative support and privileges as our associates, as well as the opportunity to work side-by-side with partners on sophisticated projects. We offer a competitive summer associate compensation package. Currently, we pay our summer associates $3,654 per week subject to withholding as required by law.

Mentors

Each summer associate is assigned two or three Responsible Attorneys, a team of partners and associates who will contact you a month or two before you start to welcome you and answer any questions you may have before you arrive. They will also take you to lunch on your first day, keep in touch with you throughout the program to help integrate you into the firm, and take you out for your farewell dinner at the conclusion of the program.

Work

• Practice: Many Summer Associates arrive with a strong preference for a given type of law, however, it is not uncommon for those preferences to change as students gain exposure to new practice areas. We ask that our Summer Associates rank their practice area preferences. If a student indicates a strong preference for multiple practice areas, we will provide the opportunity to work on projects within the indicated practice areas over the course of the summer program.
• Assignments: In addition to putting your legal research and writing skills to work on real assignments, you’ll have the opportunity to attend client meetings, closings, negotiations, depositions, trials, and courtroom hearings.
• Mock Trial/ Mediation Seminar: In what is often one of the most rewarding experiences of the summer, summer associates will typically have the opportunity to prepare for and participate in a mock trial before an outside jury. For this exercise, attorneys at the firm, acting as presiding judges, trim down actual cases that have been tried, or will be tried, to a manageable size for two summer associate teams. In other cases, summer associates may participate in a Mediation Seminar, where they will receive practical instruction designed to make young lawyers better advocates for their clients in mediation. The valuable skills developed in the Mediation Seminar can be successfully applied in either a transactional or litigation setting.

Social Events

Each city has a full social calendar for the summer. These planned events afford you the opportunity to get to know as many of our attorneys as possible. These events also provide our attorneys with the opportunity to get to know you. This allows you to get a feel for our culture and find out if we’re a fit for you.

We also have a statewide summer associate event that brings all our summer associates together in one office for a special presentation by the firm’s Managing Partner and other department heads. The event typically includes a reception and dinner that allows the entire summer associate class to socialize as a group and meet JW attorneys from other offices.