Many legal departments only hire in-house lawyers with years of experience. But that’s not the case at Sittercity Inc. The Chicago-based company that connects families with nannies and baby sitters proudly hires in-house lawyers pretty much exclusively from its legal internship program.
General counsel Jeremy Gottschalk, who was named Sittercity’s first GC in 2010, says he proposed a paid internship program to company execs soon after he began. Because of the recession, a lot of promising lawyers and law students in Chicago couldn’t find work in private practice. The internship program was a way to help up-and-coming lawyers get valuable experience, Gottschalk says. “To me, an intern program is as much giving back to them as it is getting good work,” he says.
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