We have developed and structured a program to give summer associates opportunities to experience what it is like to work at our firm as a first or second year attorney. We provide our summer associates with opportunities to work with our lawyers in practice areas that interest them, and to socialize with our lawyers in order to get to know them on a personal level.

We strive to provide summer associates with a real work experience. Assigned projects are specific tasks from existing cases similar to those tasks required from first and second year associates. Summer associates are invited to court hearings, depositions, trials, client meetings, transactional closings, and other events of interest. The goal is to demonstrate how the work performed by summer associates fits into the broader context of the entire case.

Our summer associates are assigned a mentor who guides the associate and answers questions relating to the firm, their work, and the practice of law. We also provide our summer associates with opportunities to meet the lawyers in the firm in a variety of settings. We are proud of the interaction between our offices, and we want our associates to meet all of the lawyers in both of our offices. To this end, we invite our summer associates to participate in a number of social events, lunches, and dinners to give them opportunities to interact with all of our lawyers. The lawyers in our firm have a broad range of interests, backgrounds, and hobbies, and we want our summer associates to meet our talented and diverse group of professionals.

McDonald Carano Wilson's lawyers include graduates from many nationally respected law schools. In recent years, we have hired summer associates from Duke, Harvard, Yale, University of Michigan, University of Arizona, University of San Diego, Boston University, Boston College, University of Washington, UNLV, Brigham Young University, Vanderbilt, William & Mary, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and Santa Clara University. We welcome resumes and expressions of interest from qualified students and graduates from all law schools.