For the past six years, Morgan Lewis has begun every Summer Associate Program by bringing firm leaders and summer associates from throughout the United States to a single location for a multiday kickoff event. In keeping with one of our core values, we decided to focus our 2008 kickoff on community service. As in past years, part of the program was devoted to presentations that are designed to introduce Summer Associates to Morgan Lewis and its practices. This year, however, part of the program was spent in the neighborhood of one of the cities in which we practice. There, Summer Associates joined with firm leaders and other Morgan Lewis lawyers in participating in a community service project at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Georgetown. Morgan Lewis's inaugural Community Service Summer Associate Kickoff will supplement, and not replace, our unique Public Interest and Community Service split-summer program. Picture yourself at Morgan Lewis, beginning your summer experience by serving the needs of others.

Kickoffs in prior years were held in San Francisco, Baltimore, Chicago, and Santa Monica. The 2008 Kickoff was held in Washington, D.C.