Year Office Opened: 2004
Number of Lawyers: 12 Partners | 2 Counsel | 15 Associates (as of June 2008)
Number of 2008 Summer Associates: 2 2L
Number of 2007 Summer Associates: 2 2L
KEY PRACTICE AREAS
- Business and Finance
- Employee Benefits/ESOP
- Intellectual Property
- Labor and Employment
PROGRAM COMPONENTS
- Firmwide orientation held offsite (learn more).
- Professional development and training opportunities.
- "Tag-along" experience to court, congressional hearings, and client meetings.
- Opportunity to take assignments in all practices; no formal rotation.
- In addition to training programs and social events in the Dallas office, summer associates are invited to participate in programs and events in other offices.
- Partner and associate mentors for each summer associate.
- Mid-summer and end-of-summer evaluations.
- Optional Public Interest Community Service (PICS) Program offered to all summer associates (learn more).
2008 DALLAS ASSOCIATE COMPENSATION
- Summer Associates
- $30,800 per-summer compensation
- First-Year Associates
- Base compensation $160,000
- Relocation expenses
- $5,000 stipend to cover bar expenses
- Judicial Clerkship bonus of $60,000 for Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Clerks, $50,000 for Federal District Court clerks who are hired directly from their clerkship