Be Valued: We are a nationwide Big Law firm with a collegial culture stemming from our Midwest roots. We are committed to creating a rewarding environment that offers opportunities for challenging work, a supportive and engaged atmosphere, and a promising path for career development. We signed the ABA Well-Being Pledge to support healthy work environments for legal professionals and we provide many programs and opportunities for balancing career and personal priorities, including:
- Alternative work schedules
- Benefits for part-time personnel
- Child and elder care resources and referral services
- Employee assistance program
- Parental leave, new parent support and ramp-up programming
- Work-from-home options
- Inclusive and holistic family care beyond traditional medical coverage, including fertility (such as IUI, IVF, and egg, sperm or embryo freezing), adoption, and surrogacy benefits
Be Supported: We provide an ongoing training track that supports your legal career at all stages designed to provide a realistic path to partnership. From practice-specific skills to business development and professional leadership, we believe in an apprentice culture that provides you with meaningful, practical experience, supported by experienced mentors throughout your career.
Your learning opportunities evolve in step with your advancement, beginning with our highly regarded Summer Associate program.
Some of our professional development initiatives include:
- Unassigned Associate Program: You can choose to join a specific practice or opt for our one-year unassigned program to explore your potential choices.
- New Associates Academy: A comprehensive, multi-day, in-person training program for the firm’s entry-level associates, including substantive legal skills (legal writing, negotiations) as well as firm culture, professional ethics and law firm economics.
- Midlevel Associate Academy: Multi-day, in-person, critical skills and practice group-specific training (including NITA-based trial, negotiation training) for our midlevel lawyers to give them hands-on experience to hone their developing practices.
- Senior Associate Academy: Essential advanced level professional development training, including leadership, business development and business economics.
- Practice group-specific training: NITA-based deposition training, mediation and negotiation workshops for business transactions, in-office legal writing training, monthly practice group and team calls, webinars on practice developments, new case law and industry issues, and off-site Practice Group Retreats.
- Comprehensive Mentoring Program: For ALL associates over the life cycle of their careers to promote their professional satisfaction, well-being, training and development, and opportunities for advancement, including individual pairings, business development and mentoring circles.
Learn more about working at BakerHostetler.