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- With no formal departments or rotations for any of its lawyers, Cleary Gottlieb offers summer associates the opportunity to enjoy assignments in a variety of practice areas, or focus on a particular discipline, in a flexible and diverse environment.
- Exposure to “real world” practice where summer associates play active and meaningful roles in ongoing matters.
- Potential for rotations in one of our 10 overseas offices, with 39 out of 98 summers from the 2007 summer class going overseas.
- All summer associates who express an interest receive pro bono assignments from our broad pro bono practice.
- Extensive formal and informal training – including summer lunches hosted by various practice areas, a two-day corporate training seminar and an interactive litigation “bootcamp” with mock deposition exercises.
- Opportunity to participate in two to three week summer internship programs at two leading investment banks.
- Wide array of cultural and recreational events exploring what life in New York has to offer – in 2007 they ranged from intimate partner-hosted dinners to cocktails and dancing at the Hotel Gansevoort Rooftop. Other events included Broadway shows, baseball games, an event at the Guggenheim Museum and a Hamptons beach party.
- Personal mentoring from Summer Program Committee members and associate “siblings.”
- Summer associates receive the same remote-access technology as all other lawyers, including use of laptops and Blackberries.
- Top Ten Prestige Ranking in the 2008 Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms.
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