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Best Summer Associate Programs

Junior lawyers look back on their experiences as summer associates to rate the summer program on attorney interactions, career development, and social experiences. Vault's 2023 Rankings are derived from Vault's Annual Associate Survey conducted from January 2022 through March 2022.
Survey Methodology

Vault asked junior associates who participated in their current firm’s summer associate program to rate their experiences on a scale of 1 to 10 in six different areas. From those ratings, we ranked the best summer associate programs in three categories: Attorney Interactions (based on associates’ scores for meaningful interactions with firm attorneys); Career Development (giving equal weight to associates’ scores for substantive assignments, training and mentoring, and effective preparation for life as an associate); and Social Experiences (giving equal weight to associates’ scores for the quality of events and satisfaction with firm-sponsored social opportunities and social interactions). The Overall Best Summer Associate Program ranking reflects the average of all six individual ratings (attorney interactions, substantive assignments, training & mentoring, preparation for associate life, quality of events, and satisfaction with firm-sponsored social opportunities and social interactions).

Vault's 2023 Rankings are derived from Vault's Annual Associate Survey conducted from January 2022 through March 2022.

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2023 Best Summer Programs for Social Experiences

#1
SCORE 9.833
2022 Rank 5
#2
SCORE 9.818
2022 Rank 13
#3
SCORE 9.810
2022 Rank 3
#4
SCORE 9.776
2022 Rank 14
#5
SCORE 9.580
2022 Rank 30
#6
SCORE 9.551
2022 Rank 2
#7
SCORE 9.533
2022 Rank 4
#8
SCORE 9.461
2022 Rank 6
#9
SCORE 9.413
2022 Rank 22
#10
SCORE 9.367
2022 Rank 28