One of the best things about being a summer associate in the Boston office is that each day is different. Here’s just a snapshot of a typical “day in the life” (a.k.a. “What I Did Today”) of a summer associate at WilmerHale.
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My secret is out: it has taken me 26 years, 7 months, and 24 days to actually see the Red Sox play at Fenway Park. Although I grew up watching the games on TV and secretly listened to Opening Day on the radio when I was in third grade, I saw my first game this summer.
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I’m limping down stairs, barely able to bend down to tie my own sneakers, and hobbling along WilmerHale’s hallways like a crippled gnome, but I’m proud to say that my team was victorious in the WilmerHale Summer Associate Scavenger Hunt.
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WilmerHale’s first social event of the summer forced us to sharpen our culinary skills at a cooking event. Our excitement was laced with foreboding: the food we would prepare tonight would be our dinner—and we were all starving.
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As a 1L, I didn’t know if I wanted to work at a big law firm or if I should even participate in On Campus Interviewing. Could I feel at home in a big law firm? Could I have a varied, challenging, and intellectually rigorous practice?
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Searching for housing in Boston should have been easy. I knew exactly where I wanted to live: a fun area located between Davis and Porter Squares in Cambridge, just a 20 minute train ride from downtown Boston and WilmerHale.
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