While the vast majority of our entry-level associates join the firm
out of the Summer Program, we supplement our entry-level hiring with
selective offers to 3Ls and judicial clerks who did not summer with
us. We apply our summer hiring standards in evaluating these candidates,
and those who join us have equal success in practice. Our need to look
to these sources varies by year, however, so law students interested
in starting their careers at Ropes & Gray are well advised to apply
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Samantha Barrett Badlam (University of North Carolina School of Law '06)
and
Adam Reiss (Harvard
Law School '04), each came to Ropes & Gray
as a 3L after having summered elsewhere — Samantha at Paul
Hastings and Troutman Sanders; and Adam at Norton Rose
in London. |
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Lawyers who do federal appellate
or district court or state supreme court clerkships immediately following
law school and who then join Ropes & Gray are treated as members
of their law school class for purposes of seniority and compensation,
and they receive a bonus for each year that they clerked.
Approximately 14% of the entry-level associates who joined the
firm in the last three years did so after having clerked for one or
two years. |
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Turner Buford (Harvard Law School ’03) and Olivia Choe (Yale Law School ’04) each clerked on the Federal Court of Appeals before joining Ropes & Gray — Turner in the 10th Circuit, and Olivia on the 2nd Circuit. |
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Matt
Garvey (New York University School of Law '02) and Annmarie
Tenn (Harvard
Law School '03) each did a state supreme court clerkship after law school
(Rhode Island in Matt's case, and New Hampshire in Annmarie's). |
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