Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

• “Cravath offered unparalleled substantive opportunities. I worked on a deal in the same capacity I would as a full-time associate would.”
• “At Cravath, over my summers there, I was given significant, challenging work with high stakes but sufficient support and supervision to rise to the challenge. In my two summers, I did three separate rotations and was included in the work that I still do now as a junior associate. Multiple times throughout my summers, I had projects working one-on-one with different partners, along with consistent work throughout the summers with intermediate supervision by mid-levels and senior associates.”
• “The summer associate program was very substantive. I was staffed on deals and was able to send emails out to clients with supervision. I was paired up with a partner. We had several one-on-one meals and interactions together. He gave me a lot of training and mentoring. The associates with whom I crossed paths that summer were really friendly and always willing to help if I needed advice or instructions.”
• “Training is substantial, in-depth, and continues well after the formal week-long program. I was always learning during my summer with the firm, taking on new assignments and responsibilities, all with the goal of building up my knowledge and understanding of the full scope of capital markets transactions.”

• “The social events were fun (good food, nice venues). The people were social and talkative. Transportation to and from all events was provided. I had a lot of opportunities to interact with firm attorneys.”
• “The social aspects were great because I felt like there was a good balance of work and social events. Two to three times a week there was some event outside of the firm, and it allowed us to still have a life outside of the summer program but also enjoy the fact that we were summer associates.”
• “Everyone is respectful and professional, from the bottom to the top. There is a healthy social culture in that there are events weekly or so that are decently attended, but there is no expectation that you have to attend all of them or stay out super late. I appreciated the lunch culture.”
• “Cravath's summer program still makes time for fun! I loved getting to know the full team, and the NYC-centric office focus and smaller total headcount make getting to know folks much easier.”

• “I have been pleasantly surprised in general with how much my summer experience parallelled and previewed my associate experience. I do a slightly wider array of work as a full-time associate, but in general, I feel like my experience was very much what I was sold.”
• “My experience practicing at my firm has been very similar to my experience as a summer associate. Cravath's summer program gives you an extremely realistic taste of what the work life is like. They essentially treat you as a new first-year associate, and as such, you get a lot of substantive work and responsibility quickly. My summer experience at the firm also helped me be far more equipped to start as a full-time first-year associate.”
• “My expectations have largely aligned with my experience at the firm to date. I think the main thing people do not realize about the rotation system is that you still get to work with multiple partners at any given time because your assigned partner is usually not the only partner on a case. I have had a breadth of opportunities to work with other partners and associates while knowing that my assigned partner is keeping an eye on my work and my experience at the firm.”
• “I am staffed on even more substantive matters compared to my summer. I am able to work on major agreements in corporate deals and draft complicated memorandums that involve a lot of legal research and thinking. I am also able to communicate with clients directly. I had thought those tasks would be for more-senior people, but the experiences have been absolutely rewarding.”

Cravath’s summer program is designed to provide law students with an experience that mirrors the life of a first-year associate and an opportunity to work directly for, and with, the firm’s clients. Summer associates choose to work in the Corporate, Litigation, Tax, Executive Compensation and Benefits, or Trusts and Estates departments, and experience the day-to-day working life of a Cravath lawyer. Prior to the summer, information is collected on department and assignment preferences. Upon arrival, summer associates are assigned to a partner from their selected department who is responsible for assigning work, providing feedback, introducing the other team members, and ensuring the experience resembles that of a first-year associate. Summer associates also have an associate mentor, and there are a wide variety of events held throughout the summer that allow summer associates to socialize with the attorneys.