Year Office Opened: 2007
Number of Lawyers: 15 Partners | 4 Counsel | 22 Associates (as of July 2008)
Number of 2008 Summer Associates: 1 2L | 1 1L
KEY PRACTICE AREAS
- Commercial Litigation
- Insurance Recovery
- International/Cross-Borders Transactions
- Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation
- Product Liability/Toxic Tort
- Labor and Employment
PROGRAM COMPONENTS
- Firmwide orientation held offsite (learn more).
- Professional development and training opportunities.
- "Tag-along" experience to court, congressional hearings, and client meetings.
- Opportunity to take assignments in all practices; no formal rotation.
- Partner and associate mentors for each summer associate.
- Mid-summer and end-of-summer evaluations.
- Optional Public Interest Community Service (PICS) Program offered to all summer associates (learn more).
2008 HOUSTON ASSOCIATE COMPENSATION
- Summer Associates
- $30,800 per-summer compensation
- First-Year Associates
- Base compensation $160,000
- Relocation expenses
- Bar expenses
- Judicial Clerkship bonus of $60,000 for Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Clerks, $50,000 for Federal District Court clerks who are hired directly from their clerkship