Summer Associate Program

Where excellence meets opportunity

Commit to the future of law.

Choosing to summer at Goodwin means committing to excellence, interacting with the world's most leading and innovative clients, and experiencing life as an associate alongside the most talented and elite legal minds.

What does excellence look like at Goodwin? It starts with you.

Designed to be a comprehensive and engaging experience, our Summer Program is a launchpad for you to develop the skills, insight, and experience to confidently bring your expertise into the legal world.

With our guidance, you’ll grow your network, find valuable mentorship, and gain exposure to some of the world’s most recognizable companies and major players. During our ten-week program, you’ll be empowered to shape your own professional development and career aspirations while enjoying the experience alongside others equally driven to succeed.

2028 Summer Program Applications

Applications for our 2028 summer program are now open. Apply today.

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Complete an assessment by Suited. If you've already completed the assessment, log into your Suited account and share your results by accepting our invitation to connect. Please ensure that you use the same email address for both your application and assessment. Refer to their Student Resource Guide for more info.

Goodwin has partnered with Suited, a candidate screening platform, to help us better understand our applicants and expand access to our Summer Associate program. Our goal is to make the recruiting process as fair and seamless as possible, so that we can find candidates who will be fulfilled in their roles and complementary to our culture. Your results will be used as just one of many factors in evaluating your candidacy.

New York City Local Law No. 144 Notice: Pursuant to New York City Local Law No. 144, Goodwin provides the following disclosures: Goodwin uses the automated employment decision tool Suited to assess candidates who seek employment with the firm as attorneys, including candidates who reside in New York City. Suited exclusively collects and analyzes psychometric data provided by individual candidates during each candidate’s assessment. Goodwin retains candidate scores generated by Suited for three (3) years. For more information regarding Goodwin’s use of Suited, please contact Karen Rameika.

Goodwin’s most recent bias audit of Suited can be accessed here.

Goodwin Immersion Experience

Explore the industries shaping the future and the role lawyers play in helping their clients succeed. Your Goodwin offer includes the 2L Summer Program and a five-week 1L Goodwin Immersion Experience, designed to deepen your industry knowledge, build your AI fluency, and explore how lawyers serve as business and strategic advisors to their clients.

Through interactive legal simulations and engagement with Goodwin attorneys and business professionals, you’ll explore our six core industries and learn how our lawyers put their commitment to client excellence into practice. Along the way, you’ll build relationships across Goodwin and prepare for your return to our 2028 Summer Program.

Our Goodwin Immersion Experience connects industry immersion and legal excellence with strategic and business advisory. Through our five-week 1L program, from May 24–June 25, 2027, you will gain exposure to:

Industry immersion: Explore and deepen your understanding of Goodwin’s six core industries – Healthcare, Investment Funds & Capital, Life Sciences, Private Equity, Real Estate, and Technology.
Interactive legal simulations: Work through realistic legal and business scenarios with attorney guidance.
AI training: Learn to use legal technology responsibly.
Client-informed engagement: Explore realistic scenarios shaped by the business priorities and challenges clients face.
Connections across Goodwin: Join a national cohort, participate in interactive programming, and build relationships with attorneys and mentors.
Eligibility: We welcome candidates with intellectual curiosity, sound judgment, a collaborative mindset, and an interest in our industries and the evolving practice of law. Candidates who accept their 2L offer will be required to join the 5-week 1L Immersion Experience in Summer 2027 as well as the 10-week 2L Summer Program in Summer 2028.

We will pay you $5,000 per week (a total of $25,000) for attending the five-week 1L Goodwin Immersion Experience in Summer 2027; and
In addition to the standard 2L Summer Associate salary, we will provide you with a $25,000 lump sum payment upon the successful completion of the 2028 Goodwin Summer Program.

*These are gross payments which will be reduced by applicable withholdings and deductions.

By The Numbers

13%

compound annual growth rate in firm revenue (2020-2025)

33

law schools represented in the 2026 class

100%

of 2026 Summer Associate Program candidates received an entry-level offer

Your Experience

Elite Work

Training

Mentorship

Culture

Pro Bono

Opportunity, Inclusion, Belonging

I've made lifelong friends with the other summers in my cohort, networked with some of the kindest and most successful attorneys in their fields, and scratched the surface of all the complexities and intricacies of my dream job.
Jessica Suh
Summer Class of 2026

My summer associate experience gave me the opportunity to work on a variety of matters and gain meaningful exposure to different practice areas. I really appreciated how accessible the associates and partners were because they were generous with their time, guidance, and mentorship. It was a great summer to learn, develop new skills, and get a better sense of the type of work I hope to pursue in my career.
Kendall Costanzo
Summer Class of 2026

As summers, we were able to immerse ourselves in the versatility and strong culture of the firm and connect with many members of the talented and hard-working Goodwin teams.
Aahna Gosh
Summer Class of 2026

The summer program exceeded my expectations because it provided both exceptional training and a true sense of community. I left the summer with valuable practical experience, strong mentorship relationships, and a clear understanding of what makes the firm such a great place to work. I felt supported from day one as everyone was incredibly generous with their time, and I was able to build meaningful relationships across practice groups and seniority levels.
Kenzie Olsen
Summer Class of 2026

Goodwin really cares about developing their people right from the beginning. I felt like an actual team member on every deal or financing I was put on - I was not just a novelty to include in the cc line. All the attorneys I worked with this summer went out of their way to explain their work and all the context I might need for assignments.
Brian Isztwan
Summer Class of 2026

The summer program allowed me to get a true sense of what life would be like as a first-year associate at Goodwin. I learned so much about the work and the lifestyle of a junior associate at the firm. My fellow summers and I also got to interact extensively with partners from a wide variety of practice areas, whose insights will allow us to shape our own careers for success going forward.
Ian Hurley
Summer Class 2026

Goodwin’s Summer Associate Program really helped me get real-world experiences for the theoretical concepts I learned in law school and feel prepared to handle those topics in my day-to-day career.
Jordan Kijewski
Associate, Summer Class of 2023

One thing I really appreciated about the summer program is the free-thinking, welcoming culture at Goodwin where no question is too small and there’s always someone to help. That ongoing mentorship is something I saw as a summer associate, and it’s kept me here as a sixth year.
Ben Halper
Associate, Summer Class of 2019

The culture here is very innovative and people are always open to hearing about new and efficient ways of doing things.
Evelynn Chun
Associate, Summer Class of 2021

At every client meeting during my summer program, I was introduced as a new member of the team. That inclusion was a sign to me of a culture that encourages you to raise your hand, ask questions, and truly be part of the process.
Gabriel Choi
Associate, Summer Class of 2019

Our Key Industries

Our immersive understanding of our clients’ industries – combined with our expertise across high-stakes litigation and dispute resolution, world-class regulatory compliance and advisory services, and complex transactions – sets us apart. Learn more about our key industries.

Our Investment Funds and Capital practice knows the deal terms, market trends, and mindsets of sponsors and investors. We advise clients worldwide on fund formation, operations, and transactions across asset classes and jurisdictions, delivering strategic, innovative counsel that helps them raise and deploy capital with confidence and impact.

Learn more about our Investment Funds and Capital practice.