Apply for a summer of opportunity.
We offer a first-half summer program typically starting mid-May and running for nine weeks with summer associates required to work 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. We provide a competitive summer associate compensation package and salary of $4,326 per week.Â
INFO FOR LAW STUDENTS
Mentors
Each summer associate is assigned two mentors, a team of partners and associates, who will help maximize their opportunities for meaningful legal work and watching attorneys in action. They will contact you a month before you start to welcome you and answer any questions you may have before you arrive. Mentors will continue to touch base with you throughout the program to assist in your integration into the firm.
Work
Over the course of the program, summer associates work on junior associate-level projects within their assigned practice areas and attend client meetings, closings, negotiations, depositions, trials, and courtroom hearings. 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.
In what is often one of the most rewarding experiences of the summer, summer associates will typically have the opportunity to participate in a mock trial before an outside jury. For this exercise, attorneys at the firm act as presiding judges, trimming down actual cases, that have been or will be tried, to a manageable size for two summer associate teams.
Social
Each city has a full social calendar for the summer. These events afford you and the attorneys an opportunity to get to know each other, allowing you to get a feel for the culture and whether we’re a fit for you.
A highlight of our summer program is the 2 day firmwide summer associate event that brings all of our summer associates into one office. This event encourages socialization amongst each other and with attending JW attorneys from various locations. Presentations from our firm’s managing partner, guest speakers, panel presentations, our annual firmwide summer associate challenge, a reception and a dinner are all included.
View Summer Associate Open Positions
We accept 1L applications starting November 1 and 2L applications starting May 1.Apply Online
Contact Us
For questions about 1L or 2L recruiting, contact:Â Law School Recruiting
For 3L’s, LLM Students and Current Judicial Clerks, please submit your application to Lateral Associate Recruiting.