Does the firm have a mentor program?
Each summer associate is paired with an Associate Contact and a Mentor. The Associate Contact is responsible for the summer associate’s social integration into the firm. He/she will attend social gatherings with you, arrange for you to have lunch with other attorneys, and will be available to you throughout the summer. The Mentor is responsible for your professional integration into the firm. He/she will assign your work to you, evaluate your work along with the attorney for whom you do the project, and will ensure that you are getting to know the attorneys in the practice groups in which you have expressed an interest. When you join the firm as an associate, you are assigned a mentor through the firm’s formal mentor program. All first, second and third year associates and lateral associate hires are assigned a mentor. The firm has made mentoring a priority by designating a mentoring partner who has firm-wide responsibility for implementing and overseeing the program. The objective of
