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Attracting and developing talented professionals who are committed to excellence is critical to our success. We offer students, trainees and judicial clerks unparalleled opportunities for interesting work, a supportive and collegial environment, and a promising pathway to career development.
Our summer program and trainee program give an immersive experience. We provide real-life insight into the workings of an established, broad reaching law firm and the chance to share our commitment to client, public and community service. Each office creates a unique program of events, giving law students a taste of life and work in that office.
Our summer associates and trainees are given high-quality, challenging assignments and work directly with senior lawyers across practices and industry groups on complex and, frequently, cross-border matters.
We know that former judicial clerks bring valuable real-world experience to our legal practice. Your experience, skills, and knowledge add to our rich and dynamic culture and contribute directly to our ability to meet the diverse needs of our clients. We've established a legacy of attracting and retaining former judicial clerks. Morgan Lewis is proud to have more than 150 former judicial clerks.
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At a glance
*Our Beijing and Shanghai offices operate as representative offices of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. In Hong Kong, Morgan Lewis operates through Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, which is a separate Hong Kong general partnership registered with The Law Society of Hong Kong as a registered foreign law firm operating in Association with Luk & Partners.
Summer Associates Program Overview
We offer an innovative work experience for second-year law students – one that combines a rich summer experience with hands-on, in-depth work at Morgan Lewis, targeted professional development and training, and then in-house training at a public interest or community-based organization.
Our Summer Associate Program starts with an experiential get-together where firm leaders and all summer associates from across the US gather for a multiday orientation and bonding program.
Our kickoffs have happened everywhere from the beach in Santa Monica, where we went barefoot and had a beach olympics, to major urban centers, where we planted trees for the community. Wherever we gather, the goal remains the same: to introduce our summer associates to the firm, to our summer program, to our unique firm culture, and to our enthusiasm for working together.
A cornerstone of each program is our Pro Bono Clinic. Our summer associates’ first assignment is meeting with and counseling real clients. Most recently, we partnered with The Lawyers Clearinghouse in Boston. Teams of Summer Associates alongside Partners and Associates from various offices advised 20 Massachusetts non-profit organizations on Written Information Security Programs.
ML Training Experience
ML Community Experience
Serve the public interest and the community as part of your summer work.
The Community Experience allows summer associates the opportunity to spend part of the summer in our traditional program, followed by an assignment at a public interest or community service organization. Summer associates spend up to four weeks with the organization and, together with our firm’s pro bono partner, choose where they will work.
We established the Morgan Lewis Community Experience in 2001. Summer associates who select the ML Community Experience will receive a stipend equal to the salary that they would have received at the firm as a summer associate.
In prior years, summer associates have worked for organizations including:
- Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation
- Manhattan Legal Services
- Education Law Center
- Legal Aid Society - Brooklyn Neighborhood Office
- Goddard Riverside Community Center
- LSNY Manhattan Legal Services
- National Center for Law and Economic Justice
- East Bay Community Law Center
- Center for Reproductive Rights
- The National Veterans Legal Services Program
- National Geographic Society
- National Public Radio
- Cabrini Green Legal Aid
ML Firm Experience
Experience a fully immersive summer working at one of our offices in the United States.
Our Firm Experience offers summer associates a traditional law firm experience. Law students spend all 10 weeks working on real assignments and engaging with lawyers and clients in one of our US offices. At the end of the 10-week period, law students leave with a very clear picture of the day-to-day life of a Morgan Lewis attorney.
ML Diversity Career Fellowship
Our ML Diversity Career Fellowship provides stipends that are designed to assist Diversity Fellows with law school-related expenses. Our goals are to promote diversity in the legal profession and to attract future leaders who are committed to the importance of diversity.
Fellowships
The Fellowship awards salaried summer associate positions and a $15,000 stipend to highly qualified second-year students. The stipends are paid to fellowship recipients who complete the Summer Associate Program and accept offers of full-time associate employment with the firm. Half of the stipend is paid when the summer associate accepts the offer of associate employment, and half is paid upon commencement of associate employment.
Eligibility
The Fellowship is open to any second-year law student. Eligible applicants will (1) have successfully completed one year of law school, (2) have demonstrated academic excellence, (3) have outstanding leadership skills, (4) have an interest in employment with Morgan Lewis, and (5) have a demonstrated interest in promoting diversity at the firm and within the legal profession.
Process
Interested students should sign up for an on-campus interview for summer associate positions. If Morgan Lewis does not recruit at your law school, please contact a local Morgan Lewis office to apply for a summer associate position, or apply online here any time after June 1: ML Diversity Career Fellowship Application.
All fellowship applications must be accompanied by a resume, law school transcript, and a brief, detailed personal statement.
If you have any questions, please email diversityfellowship@morganlewis.com.
Campus Visits
In early July, Morgan Lewis begins accepting resumes for our summer associate program from law students going into their second year of law school. We typically conclude our interviewing process by early November.
If you are unable to secure an on-campus interview, you may submit your resume here.
Campus Visits Schedule
| Law School | Date |
|---|---|
| American University Washington College of Law | 8/6/2018 |
| Boston College Law School | 8/8/2018 |
| Boston University School of Law | 8/9/2018 |
| Catholic University of America Law School | 8/6/2018 |
| Columbia University Law School | 8/1/2018 |
| Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law | 7/30/2018 |
| Duke University School of Law | 7/30/2018 |
| Fordham University School of Law | 7/30/2018 |
| George Washington University Law School | 7/30/2018 |
| Georgetown University Law Center | 8/6/2018 |
| Harvard Law School | 8/10/2018 |
| Howard University School of Law | 8/6/2018 |
| Indiana University School of Law |
8/1/2018 |
| Loyola University Chicago School of Law | 8/9/2018 |
| New England School of Law |
8/9/2018 |
| New York University School of Law | 8/6/2018 |
| Northeastern University School of Law | 8/1/2018 |
| Northwestern University School of Law | 8/3/2018 |
| Rutgers University School of Law, Camden | 8/6/2018 |
| Santa Clara University School of Law | 8/1/2018 |
| Stanford University Law School | 8/8/2018 |
| Temple University, Beasley School of Law | 8/6/2018 |
| University of California, Berkeley School of Law | 8/3/2018 |
| University of California, Davis School of Law | 7/30/2018 |
| University of California, Hastings College of Law | 8/2/2018 |
| University of California, Irvine, School of Law | 8/1/2018 |
| University of California, Los Angeles School of Law | 8/1/2018 |
| University of Chicago Law School |
8/7/2018 |
| University of Houston Law Center | 8/6/2018 |
| University of Illinois College of Law | 8/8/2018 |
| University of Michigan Law School | 8/7/2018 |
| University of Pennsylvania Law School | 8/6/2018 |
| University of San Francisco School of Law | 7/31/2018 |
| University of Southern California Law School | 8/8/2018 |
| University of Texas School of Law | 8/8/2018 |
| University of Virginia School of Law | 8/6/2018 |
| Villanova University, Charles Widger School of Law | 8/6/2018 |
| Yale Law School | 8/8/2018 |
Career Path
Whether you join us as a summer associate or trainee, from a judicial clerkship or as a lateral attorney, there is a career path at Morgan Lewis for you.
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Press Release
Former judicial clerks bring valuable real-world experience to our legal practice. Their experiences, skills, and knowledge add to our rich and dynamic culture and contribute directly to our ability to meet the diverse needs of our clients. Because of this, we've established a legacy of attracting and retaining former judicial clerks. Morgan Lewis is proud to have more than 150 former judicial clerks.
To serve the diverse needs of our clients, we actively seek lawyers with experience as judicial clerks from both state and federal courts, as well as administrative agencies such as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
We recruit judicial clerks into specific practices and offices.
Career Path
Whether you join us as a summer associate or trainee, from a judicial clerkship or as a lateral attorney, there is a career path at Morgan Lewis for you.
Awards, Rankings & Accolades
Morgan Lewis has international programs for students in Frankfurt, London, Paris, Moscow, and Singapore. Each program is designed to give law students real world experience with a genuinely global perspective.
Frankfurt Referendare Program
The Frankfurt office sends promising German Referendare to our US offices for internships. The typical Referendare has received excellent training in German law, but has not been trained in the US or in any other common law system. This program helps bring a global dimension to your education. If you have completed a two-year clerkship, the Second State Legal Exam, and are fluent in English, you may qualify.
As a Referendare, you will spend your first three weeks in the Morgan Lewis Frankfurt office, where you will receive an overall orientation. You will then spend approximately two months working with a partner in one of our US offices, who will serve as your mentor. You will be given many opportunities to experience the similarities and differences between German statutory and American common law. While in the US, you will work on active cases and be immersed in the day-to-day business of the firm.
For further information, please contact Dr. Ulrich Korth, partner and sponsor of the program, at our Frankfurt office.
London Trainee Programme
Trainees in our London office work directly with senior lawyers across practices and industry groups on complex and, frequently, cross-border matters. We offer a hands-on and varied experience where trainees build a thorough understanding of our firm’s business and of working with international, high-profile clients.
Engagement and teamwork are the foundation of the training you will experience at Morgan Lewis. You can expect to be an active member of a busy team, and play a real part in doing challenging legal work. While classic “seat” allocations bring a practice area focus to each six-month phase of your training, the versatility and integration of our lawyers ensures that you will have a varied workload and regular exposure to diverse learning experiences.
We currently offer seats in Antitrust, Corporate & Business Transactions, Finance, Investment Management, Labour & Employment, Litigation and Structured Transactions, as well as the occasional client secondment in London. The majority of our trainees will also undertake a secondment in one of our international offices, including Brussels and Dubai.
Pay and Benefits
Candidates who have accepted a training contract offer with Morgan Lewis will receive a maintenance grant of £8,000 (paid in instalments), as well as the full payment of fees for both the GDL and LPC. The firm does not provide retrospective funding for law school fees or maintenance grants.
1st year salary: £47,000 per annum.
2nd year salary: £52,000 per annum.
Qualification salary: £105,000 per annum.
Benefits include life assurance, private medical and dental insurance, pension and income protection.
What we look for
Candidates applying for either our summer scheme or training contract will need a strong academic record, including a minimum of AAB at A Level (or equivalent) and a 2:1 (predicted or gained) in their undergraduate degree.
Our online application form is the first opportunity for you to provide us with information that will help us to get to know you. We look for a range of prior work experience (a mixture of law and non-law), volunteering and extra-curricular activities to demonstrate the development of your skills and experience. In particular, we are looking for candidates to show us their commercial awareness, team spirit, resilience and passion for a career in law.
Apply for a training contract >>
Applications for both our summer scheme and training contract programmes are open to penultimate year law students, final year non-law students and graduates. We are currently recruiting for training contracts starting in the Spring and Autumn of 2020 and the deadline to apply is midnight on 15 July 2018. If you have any queries, please contact the graduate recruitment team at: LondonTrainingProgramme@morganlewis.com.
Summer Vacation Scheme
Our week-long summer vacation scheme provides students with the opportunity to learn more about the firm, meet some of our people, and gain insight into life at Morgan Lewis.
Applications for our 2018 summer vacation scheme in the London office are now closed and further details on next year’s summer scheme programme will be available in the autumn.
Moscow Summer Associates
Our summer program is designed for current law students who have completed three years of school and are interested in an internship with the firm for all or part of the summer.
We offer a great opportunity to experience the real professional life of a lawyer from the inside of a leading international law firm. Our summer associates develop their abilities while involved in a wide variety of projects with our lawyers, and we are proud to say that a number of our current associates began their careers as summer associates.
Summer associate candidates must
- have completed at least three years of law school;
- be fluent in both Russian and English;
- reside in Moscow permanently or for summer 2018; and
- if applicable, have a Russian work permit.
To apply, please submit the following to cvmoscow@morganlewis.com before April 28, 2018: your CV in English, which should include your grade point average, and one-page essay in English on any recent legal development in Russia that you believe is the most important.
Questions? Please contact Yulia Lytaeva at +7.495.212.2566.
Singapore Trainee Program and Internship
Get a head start and enhance your appreciation for the practice of law at our Singapore office. We offer a practical training programme that gives outstanding students an opportunity to get hands-on training in regional and international transactions and cases. Successful candidates are talented law students with strong academics, drive, and curiosity, who are eager to learn.
The Morgan Lewis Stamford Practice Training Contracts programme offers trainees maximum exposure through a rotation of all our practice groups. You will receive support from senior lawyers, practical scheduled training modules covering major aspects of corporate, commercial, finance and dispute resolution practice, and a dedicated mentor for career guidance.
- Attractive honorarium through the Practice Training Period, currently set at S$2,000/month
- Reimbursement of compulsory course fees upon retention
- A market-leader for annual packages of newly qualified lawyers
Our internship programmes run from May to August. Send applications by mail or electronically to:
The Recruitment Director
Morgan Lewis Stamford LLC
10 Collyer Quay
Level 27-00 Ocean Financial Centre
Singapore 049315
Email: singaporerecruitment@morganlewis.com
Applicants should include: Cover letter stating your preferred area of practice, a recent photo, your Curriculum Vitae, transcripts of results achieved in your LLB examinations to date, and copies of “O” and “A” level certificates.
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