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Meyer,
Hendricks & Bivens employs both first- and second-year
students from law schools across the nation. We use
the summer associate program as our primary recruiting
method and hire summer associates with the hope and
expectation that the relationship will develop into
permanent employment.
Over
the course of a typical summer, summer associates work
on projects with a number of different attorneys within
the firm. These projects usually focus on research and
writing, and sometimes are associated with observational
opportunities. These projects provide the summer associate
with an opportunity to improve his or her adversarial
skills while allowing us to evaluate the summer associate's
analytical and writing abilities. Each summer associate
is assigned a "mentor" for the summer. That
mentor's job is to ensure that the summer with the firm
provides the summer associate with the appropriate number
of projects, challenges, and observation opportunities.
More importantly, that mentor works to make sure the
summer is an enjoyable and personal/personable experience
for each individual who joins us as a summer associate.
We
also have our summer associates attend a number of events,
including client meetings and interviews, depositions,
court hearings, appellate arguments, trials and arbitrations
as those opportunities present themselves. These events
allow the summer associates to observe their work "in
action" and to get a better feel for what it means
to be an attorney at Meyer, Hendricks & Bivens.
In order to get to know our summer associates better
and to allow them to get to know us, we host a number
of social events during the summer. These include lunches
and dinners with the attorneys, attendance at cultural
and sporting events and other activities that may be
of particular interest to our summer associates.
Our
typical summer associate stays with us from ten to twelve
weeks. We permit our summer associates to split their
summers with another law firm, but require that summer
associates spend a minimum of six weeks with us.
We set salaries for our summer associates to be competitive
with the other major litigation firms in Phoenix. For
those summer associates coming to Phoenix from other
cities and states, we can assist them in finding living
arrangements.
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