| The firm's Summer Associate Program offers first- and second-year law students an opportunity not only to gain experience in legal research and writing but also to observe the practice of law first hand. Summer Associates will observe depositions, client and witness interviews, and trials or hearings. The firm views the Summer Associate Program as one of its best recruiting tools; about one-third of the firm's attorneys are former Cooper & Walinski Summer Associates.
Cooper & Walinski recruits students in the top 20% of their class, especially those with law review or moot court experience. It also considers previous clerkship experience and other personal, educational, and occupational achievements in evaluating applicants for the Summer Program.
Each Summer Associate is paired with a mentor who is a practicing attorney in the firm. The Manager of Operations strives to ensure that each Summer Associate works with a number of attorneys and on a variety of projects.
Cooper & Walinski will not participate in on-campus interviews in the Fall of 2010. Resumes will be accepted from second-year students, and a final decision on a Summer 2011 program will be made in January 2011. |
