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 have decided to focus our 2008 kickoff on community service. As in past years, part of the program will be devoted to presentations that are designed to introduce Summer Associates to Morgan Lewis and its practices. This year, however, part of the program will be spent in the neighborhoods of one of the cities in which we practice. There, Summer Associates will join with firm leaders and other Morgan Lewis lawyers in performing meaningful community service projects. 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, and Chicago. The 2007 Kickoff was held in Santa Monica, California.