2025 Summer Program Opportunities – 2L | McDermott Will & Emery
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McDermott Will & Emery is seeking 2L summer associates to join us for our 10 week 2025 Summer Associate Program. Our program offers summer associates a realistic introduction to the practice of law and day-to-day life as a McDermott associate. The summer associate program provides meaningful responsibility and feedback that is consistent with a junior associate experience. Summer associates are given the opportunity to accept assignments with many of our practice groups during the summer. This allows summers to experience the type of work they are interested in first-hand and ultimately steer them toward the type of work they enjoy.
In 2025, we will host formal summer programs in our Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC offices. With the exception of our Intellectual Property group, McDermott does not hire summer associates into specific practice areas. However, our first-year associates are placed into practice areas. Therefore, we seek to align summer associates’ general practice interests with local office practice representation. Below is an overview of the general practice areas which we expect to place our 2025 summer class as first year associates.
Washington, DC: Antitrust & Competition, Corporate Advisory, Energy & Project Finance, Government Contracts, Healthcare, Litigation, Privacy & Cybersecurity
Applicants are asked to submit the following materials:
As part of McDermott’s longstanding commitment to promoting a more equitable & inclusive law firm, we are proud to offer our 2L Inclusion Fellowship Program. The fellowship is in addition to the opportunities offered to our summer associates, which include substantive work experience, extensive training and development opportunities, mentoring, networking and social events.
2025 Inclusion Fellows will receive a $25,000 stipend, less applicable taxes and withholdings. Half of the stipend will be paid out upon completion of the 2025 Summer Program and the remaining half will be paid out upon joining McDermott as a full-time associate.
Eligibility
The 2L Inclusion Fellowship is open to all second-year law students that apply and will be awarded on a competitive basis.
To be considered, the candidate must:
Application Process
Candidates who submit a write-in application or receive a callback invitation through their school OCI process and wish to be considered for a 2L Inclusion Fellowship are required to supplement their online application with an email to 2LInclusionFellowship@mwe.com indicating their intent to apply for the 2L Inclusion Fellowship, as well as submit a personal statement of 1000 words or less that narrates why the applicant wants to be a lawyer and what justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion (JDEI) at a law firm means to them.
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