Learning and Professional Development

Onboarding grounds you in our culture and strategy. Programming includes summer associate deposition skills, first-year orientations, plenty of interactive learning modules, and more.

Continue learning throughout your time with us. Programming includes industry and practice trainings, writing and communications skills courses, deposition skills workshops, trial trainings, decision-making and strategy challenges, and more.

Together with Harvard Business School and Law School faculty, we deliver leadership training at critical junctures in your career:

• The Developing Your Path program helps mid-level associates proactively approach career development and work effectively as managers of people and projects.
• The Transition to Leadership program helps fifth-year associates develop leadership styles and understanding of firm strategy in preparation for elevation to counsel or partner roles.
• The Advanced Leadership program helps newly elected partners strengthen their project management, client development and team leadership skills, and broaden their understanding of professional service firms, innovation and organizational development.
• The Executive Leadership program helps partners prepare for leadership roles through executive leadership programs at Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School.

We understand the importance of career flexibility. That is why we offer multiple career paths, including both a partner track and a professional track option. The latter allows you to elect into positions that better match your practice area, clients and professional goals.

Mentorship is an essential and mutually beneficial part of your career development, whether you are a mentee or a mentor, or both. We create opportunities for mentoring relationships through interactive staffing protocols, formal mentoring relationships for all, hands-on training programs, retreats and meetings, and more.

Professional development comes from both learning in your daily work and formal learning opportunities. For the latter, we have put in place plenty of development, coaching, and other innovative programs, including the Global Rotation Program, which offers senior associates and counsel an opportunity to visit offices outside of their home country for an extended period.

We encourage everyone in our community to fully participate in formal evaluations, ongoing informal feedback and biennial firmwide upward feedback surveys on partners and counsel.