Fish & Richardson P.C.

• “There is a work coordinator in each office to assign work to summer associates. Attorneys are also actively giving work to summer associates (and mostly meaningful work). Summer associates also get many training sessions.”
• “I worked on substantive prior art analysis in an inter partes review as well as being tasked with substantive review and summary of depositions.”
• “I received real work during both of my summer associateships, including patent, copyright, and trademark litigation work, and pro bono work. The recruitment and training teams consistently do a great job of onboarding and training associates.”
• “Summers get a variety of work for real case teams. Attorney spend time mentoring the summers.”

• “Fish puts a lot of effort into putting on great social events tailored to the class. The firm attorneys clearly try to get to know the summers and be mentors. The summer associates get along really well. The best summer event is the summer associate retreat.”
• “The firm encourages summers to interact and has fun weekly events to meet other attorneys. I'm always a big fan of the end-of-year party.”
• “Each office hosts their own summer associate events. The summer associates from all offices also travel to the summer associate retreat where they get to interact with summers and attorneys from other offices.”
• “The summer associates all met together for one large retreat, which was a great experience.”

• “I wished during my first year or two there had been a little more mentorship at the outset, but in retrospect, a lot of that was due to inherent struggles of adjusting to the associate life from law school. There's so much we don't know, including everything that we don't know! Over time, I have developed organic mentors and found my place at Fish because of how encouraging and collegial most of our teams are. I have said ‘I love this team’ with respect to most, if not all, my case teams. You can expect to be laughing quite a bit on many case teams, even in the worst trenches of a case.”
• “Obviously, the hours and expectations are different; otherwise there is not much difference.”
• “Working as an associate has been incredibly similar to working as a summer associate with respect to types of work.”
• “I thought that I would be mainly working with people in my local office. However, I was pleasantly surprised to have the opportunity to work on several cross-office cases with people from around the country.”

Fish & Richardson’s summer program is the cornerstone of our recruiting. We bring in the top students from across the country, and through significant investments of time and resources, we begin developing them into the Fish & Richardson attorneys who go on to become leaders in the industry. To achieve this, our summer program is known for having real work that provides hands-on training and ongoing feedback. Summer associates tackle the tough legal issues that clients come to us to solve, and projects include preparing patent applications; conducting research for litigation; and attending client meetings, depositions, and even trials. Equally important to our summer program are the social events that integrate summer associates into the firm culture, including a firmwide summer associate retreat. Summer associates and attorneys get to know each other at dinners, concerts, and sporting events and through friendly competition across offices. Each summer associate is assigned a mentor who advises them throughout the summer.