WilmerHale
 

How to Apply

If you are a candidate considering applying for an associate or counsel position, please send a resume, cover letter and law school transcript to the appropriate contact within our Talent Department.

Office Interviews
Travel Reimbursement
Offer Decisions
Search Firms
US Office Contacts
International Office Contacts

Office Interviews

If you are invited to the firm, interviews will consist of a three hour visit, either morning or afternoon. Typically, you will be scheduled to meet with four to six attorneys for approximately 30 minutes each. If you have particular interests or concerns that might be best addressed by lawyers who share those interests—for example, parents, women lawyers, lawyers of color, openly gay lawyers or newly arrived lawyers—please let us know. We will make every effort to accommodate your request.

Travel Reimbursement

Out-of-town candidates: The firm will reimburse the interview expenses of out-of-town candidates who are invited in for a full round of interviews. Reimbursable expenses include reasonable air and train fare, ground transportation, hotel accommodations and reasonable cost of meals. For automobile travel, we will reimburse your mileage, tolls and parking fees. For more specific information, please contact our Talent Department. We do not reimburse candidates for “prescreening” interviews.

Travel reimbursement form: Either prior to or during your visit to our office, you will receive an interview packet that contains a travel reimbursement form on which you should list your out-of-pocket expenses. Please provide all receipts when submitting your request for reimbursement.

Offer Decisions

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 Talent 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 Talent Department for a period of twelve 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 twelve months; and
  • Have given the search firm express consent to be referred by the search firm to us.

US Office Contacts

Boston
Karen Clifford
Talent Lateral Recruitment Specialist
+1 202 247 3163 or
boston.lateral@wilmerhale.com
boston.staffattorney@wilmerhale.com

Los Angeles
Melissa Henley
West Coast Talent Manager
+1 650 858 6116 or
losangeles.legalrecruiting@wilmerhale.com

New York
Karen Clifford
Talent Lateral Recruitment Specialist
+1 202 247 3163 or
newyork.lateral@wilmerhale.com
newyork.staffattorney@wilmerhale.com

Palo Alto
Melissa Henley
West Coast Talent Manager
+1 650 858 6116 or
paloalto.legalrecruiting@wilmerhale.com

Waltham
Karen Clifford
Talent Lateral Recruitment Specialist
+1 202 247 3163 or
boston.lateral@wilmerhale.com
boston.staffattorney@wilmerhale.com

Washington
Karen Clifford
Talent Lateral Recruitment Specialist
+1 202 247 3163 or
washington.lateral@wilmerhale.com
washington.staffattorney@wilmerhale.com


International Office Contacts

Beijing
Karen Clifford
Talent Lateral Recruitment Specialist
+1 202 247 3163 or
beijing.lateral@wilmerhale.com
beijing.staffattorney@wilmerhale.com

Berlin
Dr. Stefan Ohlhoff
+030-2022 6355 or
stefan.ohlhoff@wilmerhale.com

Brussels
Frederic Louis
Recruiting Partner
+32 2 285 49 03 or
frederic.louis@wilmerhale.com 

Frankfurt
Dr. Christofer Eggers
+49 69 27 10 78 203 or 
karriere@wilmerhale.com 

Dr. Christian Crones
+49 69 27 10 78 207 or 
karriere@wilmerhale.com 

London

John A. Trenor
Recruiting Partner
+44 (0)20 7872 1555 or
john.trenor@wilmerhale.com