There are numerous blog posts giving advice to Summer Associates. Recurring themes include:
- Be yourself
- Be grateful
- Be helpful
- Pay attention
- When you are confused, ask questions
- Always carry around something with which to take notes
- Be on time and don’t work unconventional hours
- Smile, be polite, be nice to everyone and avoid drama and gossip
- If social opportunities arise, take them and use them to get to know people at their pace
- Do not bring random people to social events; plus one means your spouse or long term partner, do not bring a pal or a wildcard who might potentially embarrass you
- Ask about the deadline and the budget
- Dress conservatively, keep the plunging necklines and exciting ties for the club
- Request feedback from your boss on how you are doing
- Demonstrate your interest in working at the firm
- Always turn in your best work
General Tips
- Advice to the New Summer Associate in Big Law – (PrawfsBlawg)
- Tips for Summer Associates: Get the deadline… and the budget – Lydia R.B. Kelley (Ms. JD)
- Nine Summer Associate Don’ts – Mister Bitter (Bitter Lawyer)
- How Summer Associates Can Increase the Odds of Being Hired – (Law Student)
- Firm Attorneys Offer Tips for Summer Associates – (Virginia Law)
- Summer Survival: Ten Tips for Summer Associates (Part I) – Brian Malcom (Young Lawyer’s Blog)
- Summer Survival: Ten Tips for Summer Associates (Part II) – Brian Malcom (Young Lawyer’s Blog)
- Some Tips for Summer Associates: Navigating Work and Play – TJSL Professor, Deven Desai (Concurring Opinions)
- Career Center: Tips for Summer Associates (Part 1) – (Above the Law)
- Tips for Summer Associates – (Jeremy’s Weblog)
- 8 Tips to Surviving Your Summer Clerkship – Sally Kane, About.com
- Summer Associates: Tips for a Successful Summer – Mary Kate Sheridan
- Do’s and Don’t’s for Summer Associates – Gregory W. Bowman (Law Career Blog)
- More Tips for a Successful Summer from Experienced First-Year Associates – (Lexis)
- Advice for Summer Associates: Try Not To Be Socially Awkward (And Other Words of Wisdom) – Kashmir Hill
- Summer Clerkship Success – Randall Ryder (Lawyerist.com)
- T.I.P.S. for a Successful Summer – Jennifer Cullert (The New York Law Journal)
- Director’s Top Ten Tips for a Successful Summer Legal Experience – (U Law Today)
Writing Tips
- How summer associates can write better – Ross Guberman (Legal Times)
Tips for Judicial Clerkships
- Tips for Law Students Interning for Judges This Summer – Orin Kerr (theConstitutional.org)
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