2024 DIVERSITY DATABASE UNDERWRITER Clifford Chance US LLP

• “The summer program included a well-rounded amount of training and substantive work. I got direct interactions with partners, assignments under billable matters, and writing opportunities in practice areas that interested me such as privacy and data security and AI regulation.”
• “The assignment management system offers a great way to get exposure with lots of different groups.”
• “Clifford Chance's summer program was fantastic. There were social events every week, but not an overwhelming amount, and my summer class was able to become super close because of all these events. We got assignments right away and had a consistent but not overwhelming workload over the summer. The firm sent my summer class to the London office to learn more about the firm, and that was an incredible experience to feel more part of the firm.”
• “I was put on a team with a mix of fellow summer law clerks, junior associates, senior associates, and counsel. We would meet on a regular basis to discuss ongoing research assignments. Everyone on the team was accessible to help provide guidance when needed.”

• “The firm has great social events from theater nights to flying to a foreign office for week or two and getting to know the lawyers in those offices.”
• “The social events were outstanding. I loved the firm-wide country club outing, the Niall Horan concert at Madison Square Garden, the trip to London, and the chef's dinner. We had many opportunities to meet with and have interesting conversations with both partners and associates at the firm. The events gave me the opportunity to get to know both my fellow summer associates and the lawyers at the firm.”
• “There were so many social events throughout the summer, and they differed in the type of event. We had a firm retreat, happy hours, creative activities such as paint-and-sips and art museum scavenger hunts, and fitness classes.”
• “Great social events. Smaller class sizes made the interactions more personal and intentional and added to the camaraderie among the summer class.”

• “I have been pleasantly surprised at how the practice group puts me on projects that I am actually interested in. I mention that I like [X practice] and then I get added to [an X] merger. I want to do litigation; I get put on … litigation cases. They are incredibly responsive and really want people to specialize. I also am already doing a secondment, which has been a great experience so early in my career.”
• “It's matched really well from what I expected, plus the firm let me go on an international secondment to one of our other offices for almost a year when I was still a first-year associate, which was amazing.”
• “I think, if anything, I am more pleasantly surprised once starting. I can see how excited partners are to work with us, and partners have taken the time to explain their groups to me and the lower-level details so I can have a full understanding of what the deal I'm working on actually is.”
• “My expectations from last summer have aligned very well with my reality as a first-year associate. As a member of the transactional pool, I am doing consistent and interesting but not overwhelming work with a number of partners.”

We host summer programs in all three of our U.S. offices and 1L summer law clerk programs in our Frankfurt and London offices.  During the 10 weeks you'll work on a wide variety of assignments, gaining exposure to our full range of practice areas. We believe that the best learning is done on the job, and we also understand that the first two years of law school can only cover so much. We encourage you to use the summer program as an opportunity to try areas of the law you may not have been exposed to and find the best fit. Our assignment system also provides flexibility to tailor each project based on your interest and availability. In order to provide exposure to our global network, we provide all our 2L law clerks with the opportunity to spend time working in our London office.