The application portal for our 2025 Summer Associate 2L Program will open on May 1, 2024. We will review rising 2L applications, conduct interviews, and extend offers on a rolling basis beginning from May 1, 2024. We strongly encourage rising 2L law students to apply directly through our website early, even if we are participating in campus interview programs at their law school.
Applicants are welcome to apply to multiple offices. To express interest in multiple offices, you will need to submit separate applications. If you have not received your final 1L law school transcript at the time of application, you can provide it later in the process.
Perkins Coie's summer associate program provides varied work and training opportunities as well as social events designed to promote interaction among summer associates, lawyers and business professionals.
Our summer associate program is our primary source of new associate hires. We principally recruit second-year law students and occasionally hire pre-clerkship third-year law students for our domestic offices.
The associate's journey at Perkins Coie begins with an extensive orientation, training, and mentorship program designed to integrate new associates into our firm and instill in them our values. Training is often hands-on: unlike many large law firms, we expect our associates to accept significant responsibility early in their law firm careers. We are not highly leveraged, which means that associates receive significant direct client and partner contact and many opportunities to assume leadership roles within the firm.
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The interviewing season for second-year law students can be daunting and we want to help you navigate it successfully. Our panel of partners and recruiting professionals shared their tips and suggestions with a particular focus on preparing for interviews—both OCI and callback interviews—and then navigating those interviews and the post-interview process.
Preparing for the Future
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- Diverse Voices—Listen to diverse lawyers candidly discuss what it is like to work—and succeed—in BigLaw.
- Optimizing Your Summer and Future Employment Opportunities—Our speakers offer concrete advice on how you can use your time this summer to become the “preferred candidate” employers describe in their job postings.
