From white-water rafting trips to casino nights and parties, Washington’s law firms are hosting a slew of social events for this year’s summer associates in an effort to prepare them — and court them — to rejoin the firm as first-year associates after graduation.
The hiring partners and members of the recruitment committees who oversee the summer associate programs all emphasized the purpose of the social outings as ways to bond the summer associates, allow them to learn from more senior attorneys, and give them a taste of what it would be like to work as a junior associate at the firm.
