We welcome experienced lawyers from a range of backgrounds and practice areas who want to further their careers at a leading law firm. It’s a place where individuals with diverse backgrounds and life experiences work together in a spirit of openness and collaboration. Our deeply rooted culture of teamwork means that you’ll have an opportunity to work with partners and fellow lawyers across the globe, handling innovative matters for multinational conglomerates, private equity firms, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, financial institutions, mutual funds, and hospital systems, among other clients and industries. You’ll also have access to hundreds of training programs each year, including practice-specific training in response to current legal developments, cohort retreats, and management and leadership conferences.
We are committed to helping you reach your fullest potential by providing all the skills, support and experiences you will need for the practice of law. Additionally, we’ve created a number of programs and benefits to help support our lawyers balance work and their life commitments.
Our practice groups work with a network of associate development managers (ADMs) whose singular aim is ensuring the success of each and every lawyer. ADMs work with associate development partners to help associates manage work assignments, respond to growth opportunities, and build their networks within their practice groups and the firm. Additionally, on day one, your ADM will work with you to ensure that you are integrated into the practice group not only in your respective office, but across the firm.
We understand that there are times in everyone’s career where flexible scheduling is needed, so we’re committed to helping our lawyers achieve professional success while also providing flexibility. Our Flex program allows our lawyers to benefit from flexible work arrangements to meet their—and the firm’s—needs.
As an international law firm, we encourage our lawyers to maintain a global mindset and seek to understand how cultural differences can inform client decisions. To help them develop this perspective, our GO (Global Opportunities) Program gives our lawyers a chance to immerse themselves in a new culture or city by working in one of our 14 offices worldwide on a temporary or permanent basis.
During the course of their career, many of our lawyers work in-house at a client’s offices, gaining a unique, firsthand view of the client’s business needs and perspectives. These experiences enhance our lawyers’ development, and help them develop skills and experience that enable them to be successful both while working at the client and when they return to the firm.
Our technical advisors play a critical role in the work of the firm’s intellectual property litigation and transaction practices. As a technical advisor, you will have the opportunity to learn about legal aspects while working with lawyers in technical matters relating to our practice, including litigation, counseling and licensing.
As a technical advisor, you will:
After two years of full-time employment as a technical advisor, there is an option to enter law school and continue working at the firm. All technical advisors/law students are eligible to receive full law school tuition payments as well as reimbursement for expenses related to the Patent Bar exam. A bonus will be paid to any technical advisor who receives a partial or full scholarship to law school. At the completion of law school, technical advisors in good standing at the firm and who have done well in law school will be considered for employment as a full-time associate.
We offer a competitive salary, medical benefits and a generous amount of vacation time per calendar year.
Given the rich and varied scope of our practices, we’re able to offer technical advisor roles in two distinct disciplines: engineering and life sciences. Technical advisors in both disciplines work out of our Boston and New York offices, with those specializing in engineering are typically located in our Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. offices.
Technical Advisors with Engineering Degrees
Technical Advisors with Life Sciences Degree
We accept applications from September 1 – December 1 from students scheduled to graduate the following May.
We recruit technical advisors from the top engineering, technical and research universities and colleges across the country, including UC Berkeley, CalTech, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, University of Illinois, Johns Hopkins University, MIT, Princeton University, Stanford, UT Austin and University of Southern California (USC). We encourage all qualified candidates from all engineering and technical universities and colleges, across the country, to apply.
Please note: The firm does not accept submissions from legal search firms or other recruiters for technical advisor positions.