Our summer associate program offers rising third-year law students the opportunity to explore our practice areas and firm culture through a hands-on, eight-week program. Successful summer associates match our firm’s commitment to work together, motivate each other, and learn from one another.
Program Details
Sands Anderson offers summer associates the chance to work on a variety of assignments from each of the firm’s practice areas, encouraging them to fully explore the opportunities available at the firm and gain a deeper understanding of our business.
As a summer associate, you will:
- Be assigned work based on your expressed interests and workload availability.
- Get firsthand experience accompanying our attorneys to closings, client conferences, hearings, local government meetings, trials, depositions and other opportunities.
- Interact directly with attorneys who can answer questions about their areas of expertise, discuss timely cases, and provide information on the firm’s structure, management, and marketing.
- Participate in the Continuing Legal Education seminars and associate training sessions scheduled throughout the summer. Program topics range from legal ethics to trial tactic seminars and marketing strategies.
- Enjoy thoughtfully planned and fun out-of-office (or virtual) social events.
What Will You Work On?
Our summer associates work on assignments that we bill out to our clients; therefore we maintain a high expectation for quality and strong attention to detail.
Working on a transactional matter, you might conduct research for a company that is looking to incorporate their small business, participate in a county Board of Supervisors’ meeting or assists with a commercial real estate transaction.
If you’re assisting on a litigation matter, you might accompany an attorney to the deposition of an adverse party, visit the scene of a trucking accident or spend a day in court observing a complex jury trial.
The work assignments you’ll be given are precisely the type and complexity of assignments given to first-year associates, so you’ll know what to expect post-law school.
