Summer Associates

The firm overwhelmingly prefers to hire new associates from those law students who have clerked with the firm after their first or second year of law school. The summer clerkship program is viewed as an important opportunity for the firm and the student to evaluate each other. Accordingly, the firm attempts to expose summer associates to every phase of the firm's practice and their duties are not confined to research and writing. Historically, the summer clerkship program has been extremely successful. Most of the members of the firm were, at one time, participants in the program.

Each year the firm conducts an active interviewing program at several major law schools throughout the country in an effort to recruit and employ a very small number of the most qualified first-year and second-year law students available. Although every student interviewed is given serious consideration, we have found that superior academic achievement, effective communication skills, demonstrated leadership ability, integrity and resourcefulness are important factors in hiring.

All hiring is based solely on a student's predicted ability to function at the level expected of all members of the firm. We have always hired without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age or physical handicap.