Hiring Process

If you are a candidate applying for an associate or counsel position, please send a resume, cover letter and law school transcript to the appropriate office. We make every effort to respond to each candidate as quickly as possible.

Search Firms

We require all search firms to request and return to the appropriate office Legal Personnel and Development Department contact an executed fee agreement prior to any resume submittal. Resumes received from search firms without signed agreements will not be recognized as valid submissions. In addition, we honor the first resume properly submitted to the Legal Personnel and Development Department for a period of six months from the date of submission. We do not accept judicial clerk resumes from legal search firms and will not pay a fee to legal search firms that forward resumes of judicial clerks.

In addition to the candidate resume—with the search firm’s corporate stamp or corporate identifier on it, search firms should submit a cover letter detailing the office and position for which the candidate is applying and the jurisdiction(s) in which the candidate is admitted to the bar, as well as a copy of the candidate’s law school transcript. Search firms should submit only candidates who:

• Are members in good standing, or eligible to become a member, of the state bar of the jurisdiction in which the candidate will be practicing;
• Are not former employees in any capacity of the firm or its legacy firms;
• Have not submitted an application to the firm either directly or through another referral source and have not discussed employment with anyone at the firm during the preceding six months; and
• Have given the search firm express consent to be referred by the search firm to us.