Morgan Lewis

Fast Facts The Summer Associate Program in Princeton

Year Office Opened: 1992
Number of Lawyers: 13 Partners | 3 Counsel | 26 Associates
(as of June 2009)
Number of 2008 Summer Associates: 2
Number of 2007 Summer Associates: 1
Number of 2007 Offers:  1  | Acceptances:  1

KEY PRACTICE AREAS

  • Business and Finance
  • Labor and Employment
  • Litigation

PROGRAM COMPONENTS

  • Firmwide orientation held offsite.
  • Partner and associate mentors for each summer associate.
  • Professional development and training opportunities.
  • In addition to training programs and social events in the Princeton office, the summer associates are invited to participate in programs and events in the Philadelphia and New York offices.
  • Luncheon seminars and social events with practice groups.
  • Mid-summer and end-of-summer evaluations.
  • Opportunity to take assignments in all practices, no formal rotation.
  • Optional Public Interest Community Service (PICS) Program offered to all summer associates (learn more).

2008 PRINCETON SOCIAL & NETWORKING EVENTS

  • Welcome reception
  • Dinner and a show in New York
  • Dinners hosted by various partners
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Trenton Thunder baseball game
  • Texas Hold'em event
  • Broadway play and dinner
  • Battleship New Jersey tour and dinner at Caffe Aldo Lamberti

2008 PRINCETON ASSOCIATE COMPENSATION

  • Summer Associates
    • $30,800 per-summer compensation
  • First-Year Associates
    • Base compensation $150,000
    • Relocation expenses
    • $6,500 stipend to cover 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

Download the Princeton Office Fact Sheet (PDF).

Download the Princeton NALP form (PDF).