Image via Wikipedia Each year, American lawyer prodies a summer associate survey of 195 firms. Out of the 10,000 law students at work at these firms last summer, more than 70% responded to the survey. As this summer comes to a close, let's look back to see how firms did last year."While respondents to our Summer Associates Survey liked big firms, they liked life at small to midsize firms even better. Students craved juicy assignments, friendly offices, and lots of attention, and the firms that best satisfied these needs tended to be medium-sized shops with relatively small summer programs."
Nutter McClennen, Fox Rothschild, and Buchanan Ingersoll were the top three firms as rated by their summer associates. These top scores were due to real/interesting work, training/guidance, and partner interaction
Morgan Lewis was one of the few large firms to top the list. Following their 7th rated result in 2006, in 2007 they were ranked 4th. How? By giving its 120 summer associates had real work. "I was amazed at how quickly I was given access to clients," wrote one summer associate. "On my second day (before we even completed training), a partner grabbed me to attend a client meeting. Subsequently, I worked along with that client for multiple assignments throughout my summer to the point where the client knew me personally.
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