Year Office Opened: 2003
Number of Lawyers: 17 Partners | 1 Counsel | 30 Associates (as of June 2009)
KEY PRACTICE AREAS
- Business and Finance
- Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
- Labor and Employment
- Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution and Litigation; Trademark/Copyright
PROGRAM COMPONENTS
- Firmwide orientation held offsite.
- Flexible work assignment process.
- Partner and associate mentors for each summer associate.
- Professional development and training opportunities.
- Luncheon seminars and social events with practice groups.
- Self-evaluation opportunities.
- Mid-summer and end-of-summer evaluations.
- Optional Public Interest Community Service (PICS) Program offered to all summer associates (learn more).
2008 PALO ALTO SOCIAL & NETWORKING EVENTS
- San Francisco Giants game and pre-game barbeque in the ballpark
- Bocce ball tournament
- American River Rafting and camping trip
- Draeger's Cooking School
- Rock climbing
- Northern California summer associate bowling tournament
- Mountain winery concert and dinner
- Dinner at partner's homes
- Volunteer Legal Services Program - Homeless Connect Pro Bono Project
2008 PALO ALTO ASSOCIATE COMPENSATION
- Summer Associates
- $30,800 per-summer compensation
- First-Year Associates
- Base compensation $160,000
- Relocation expenses
- $10,000 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