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Summer Mentoring & Training
Mentoring
You will have two mentors—usually one partner or counsel and one associate—who serve as advisors during the summer. These mentors introduce you to lawyers in the firm, provide day-to-day guidance and answer questions about how the firm works and the nuts-and-bolts of completing assignments.
Training
We have developed a training program specifically for our summer associates, which is designed to introduce you to the practical skills lawyers need and to the topics that indicate what we value. Throughout the summer, we also want you to sample our training programs for our attorneys. Our goal is two-fold—to assist in your professional development and to give you a sample of the training we provide to our attorneys. Summer training topics include:
- Research Skills
- Negotiation Skills
- Deposition Skills
- Presentation Skills/Oral Communication Skills
- Legal Writing
- Departmental Panels and Meetings (Securities, Corporate, Litigation and Intellectual Property)
- Case Studies and Mock Trials
We also strongly encourage you to expand your knowledge further by participating in firm and office-wide department meetings and lunches, many of which are geared specifically to welcoming you and introducing our colleagues and practice.
Feedback
Attorneys you work with will give you constructive feedback informally throughout the summer. In addition, you will receive a review of your work and are encouraged to provide feedback about your experience.
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Merry Boak
Summer 2011
"Training has been really great so far. Professional development was something that was very important to me when I was looking firms because I had been a teacher ...."
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