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Our summer program provides you with the opportunity to do real work for real clients.

The WilmerHale summer program will expose you to the breadth of the firm’s practice and the range of talents among its lawyers. By providing you with a realistic view of the firm through challenging work, practical training and the opportunity to work and socialize with many of our lawyers, we try to give you the insight you need to make an informed decision to join us after graduation or a clerkship.

We are committed to a collaborative style of practice that emphasizes the value of individual lawyers and the importance of each lawyer’s development. Our tradition of emphasizing training, development and mentoring supports this choice of style. We believe the best results are achieved by drawing on the exceptional talents and varied experience of our lawyers.

Our Career Advancement Program supports our lawyers at all levels in their development with partner mentors invested in their mentees careers; established competencies that clearly define expectations; training programs tailored to experience level, practice and need; performance-based compensation and a flexible career path that promotes lawyer development on a more individualized basis.

As an inaugural signatory of the American Bar Association Well-Being Pledge for Legal Employers, we are committed to helping lawyers maintain positive mental health and combat substance abuse. To us, well-being pertains to emotional, physical and financial health, and achieving well-being is a broad and continuous process in which individuals strive to thrive in each dimension of their lives, including in their workplaces, families and communities. With these definitions in mind, we offer support to anyone in crisis and provide resources to promote the overall well-being of every individual in the WilmerHale community.

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Life at WilmerHale

Summer Associate Blogs

Our summer program promises challenging assignments, practical training and opportunities to work and socialize with many of our lawyers. Through these blogs, WilmerHale summer associates offer a candid look at the firm as they experienced it in 2019 (the summer program was virtual in 2020 and 2021). Learn More

Investing in Your Future

We are committed to a collaborative style of practice that emphasizes the value of individual lawyers and the importance of each lawyer’s development. Learn More

Work and Life Balance

We cultivate a work environment that encourages lawyers to practice law in a manner consistent with the firm’s core values of quality, excellence and service to clients, while maintaining rewarding family and personal lives. Learn More

We believe the best results are achieved by drawing on the exceptional talents and varied experience of our lawyers. Accordingly, we share our time, ideas, and inspiration with our colleagues. We enjoy working hard together as a team; we value excellence and our reward is loyal clients who recognize the difference that results from our dedication. Our collegial culture also means that we are always pleasant to deal with, even in the most difficult and high-pressure situations.
The lifeblood of the firm is the recruitment of exceptionally talented lawyers. We hire lawyers with diverse backgrounds, but with the common trait of outstanding academic and personal achievements. We then seek to make the most of their talents by giving them the training, support, and challenging opportunities they need to become accomplished lawyers of the first rank.
We are committed to providing consistently world-class legal services, as nothing less will suffice for the challenging matters our clients bring to us. Clients come to us because of our well-earned reputation for outstanding service delivered promptly. We pride ourselves on finding innovative solutions to complex problems that require us to draw on our full range of experience. The delivery of these services in a fashion that meets our standard of excellence and the needs of our clients requires substantial effort by all members of the firm.

Meet the Mentors

“One of the things that sets our firm apart is the emphasis on mentoring and on training. I’ve been with the firm my entire career and I’ve certainly been a beneficiary of that mentoring and training.”

Read Mark Selwyn’s biography.

“I try to use the network I’ve built to help younger lawyers find opportunities. At a firm like WilmerHale, you have so many opportunities to create networks and find colleagues who can walk with you throughout your career.”

Read Kevin Prussia's biography.

“Mentorship is the most rewarding part of my job. In the same way that partners created opportunities for me, I look for opportunities for my team members. I also make diversity and inclusiveness part of the conversation and look to bring attorneys together to find peers and mentors for support. And I am always more than willing to share my moments of self-doubt to let junior attorneys know that such thoughts are normal yet not worthy of validation.”

Read Nora Passamaneck’s biography.

“The mentoring I received at the firm made a huge difference for me, and I take my own role as a mentor very seriously. I also encourage other senior lawyers to take on mentoring relationships and try to foster a sense of community at the firm through my work with the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team.”

Read Dino Wu's biography.

“We strive at WilmerHale to give younger lawyers the same opportunities, in terms of training and learning, that we who have been here for a long time had ourselves ... That includes an effort to teach people how to do it right and to teach people why excellence is important.”

Read Roger Witten’s biography.

“I always appreciate opportunities to mentor newer lawyers, in part because I learn so much in the process. Working with associates reminds me of the importance of giving the reins to others so they have room to take risks and learn, and also of the importance of listening and being generous with my knowledge.”

Read Cynthia Mazareas' biography.

“I’m honored that people want my advice. I give it freely ... I’ve done a lot, and if I can share that with others while listening to what they would really like to achieve in their careers and in their lives, that’s great.”

Read Jamie Gorelick’s biography.
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Mark D. Selwyn

Partner

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Kevin S. Prussia

Partner

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Nora Q.E. Passamaneck

Partner

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Dino Wu

Partner

Witten_Roger

Roger M. Witten

Senior Counsel

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Cynthia T. Mazareas

Partner

Gorelick_Jamie

Jamie Gorelick

Partner

Hiring Chairs

What We Do

Legal excellence. Dedication to clients.

WilmerHale provides legal representation across a comprehensive range of practice areas that are critical to the success of our clients. Learn More

Public Service and Pro Bono

WilmerHale maintains a steadfast commitment to pro bono representation and public service, and believes in an inherent obligation to ensure equal access to justice for underserved communities around the world. Learn More

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We are committed to fostering an environment that embraces each individual’s unique background, experience and perspective. Our goal is to reflect the diversity of our clients and the communities in which we practice. Learn More

Join Us

Summer Program Details

Our summer program will expose you to the breadth of the firm’s practice and the range of talents among its lawyers. Learn More

Meet us on Campus

As part of our recruitment efforts, we visit campuses and job fairs across the country. Learn More

How to Apply

We seek to hire students whose academic and personal record of achievement demonstrates a commitment to excellence and typically the students we hire are at or near the top of their class. Learn More

NALP Forms

These excerpts from the NALP Directory of Legal Employers offer information about WilmerHale lawyer demographics, practice areas, compensation and benefits, diversity and inclusion practices, and more. Learn More

London Intern Program

The International Arbitration Group’s London Intern Program provides a unique opportunity for young lawyers from across the globe to experience the realities of a busy international arbitration practice and to learn from colleagues who are leaders in their field. Learn More

Current Openings

LCLD Scholar Program

WilmerHale is looking for a 1L LCLD Scholar to join the summer program in each of our Los Angeles, New York and Washington DC offices. Learn More

1L Diversity Public Interest Fellowship

WilmerHale is looking for talented first-year law students who are interested in spending their 1L summer in a public interest legal position or a judicial internship. Learn More

2022 Summer Associate Program - Los Angeles

WilmerHale is currently accepting applications for qualified first year law school students to join the 2022 Summer Associate Program in our Los Angeles office. Learn More