We consider ourselves not only legal advisors but also strategic business partners to our clients, providing sound and pragmatic guidance on their most sensitive and important issues.

We are a full-service firm providing counsel to our clients on matters across Litigation; Corporate; Tax, Executive Compensation & Benefits; and Business Finance & Restructuring Departments.

Mentoring

At Weil, we place a high priority on mentoring relationships, both formal and informal. The professional development that takes place day-to-day is invaluable. Upon arrival at the firm, each new associate is paired with a New Associate Partner Advisor and an Associate Mentor. These relationships last through the first year of an associate’s time at Weil. After one year, each associate submits a choice of a Partner/Counsel Mentor.

Additionally, informal mentoring relationships between Partner Advisors, Associate Mentors and associates are encouraged throughout each associate’s career. This guidance comes in the form of extra insight, coaching, or tips on how to impress clients by delivering stellar work that will realize a client’s business objectives. Along with offering instruction, guidance and feedback on an ongoing basis, senior attorneys support associates in fashioning a sustainable work-life balance, which may include such features as flex-time.

Training & Evaluations

Weil offers training programs in each department beginning with New Associate Orientation. Over 225 in-house training programs and workshops are conducted, including Litigation Trial Skills, BFR Department New Associates’ Training, Team Leadership and Project Management, and Business Development. These programs are firmwide and are conducted live or broadcast via video and/or audio to each office. Associates may supplement our in-house trainings with programs offered by various outside providers such as the Practising Law Institute.

To enhance the professional growth and development of our associates, Weil has a performance evaluation system that is intended to provide associates with clear and specific feedback on their performance. Our evaluation system includes an associate self-evaluation questionnaire, written evaluation forms and training for partners on how to conduct meaningful performance reviews. We also provide training for associates on how to get the most out of their review session.

Associates receive two reviews: a mid-year review in June/July and a second review shortly after year-end. We currently evaluate each associate's performance based on the criteria set forth below:

• Substantive Legal Knowledge
• Analytical Skills
• Written and Oral Communication Skills
• Responsibility
• Professionalism
• Leadership

Wherever your career takes you, this practical, client-oriented mindset will be extraordinarily helpful. And if your career does move beyond Weil, our Alumni Program helps you stay connected to Weil’s extensive professional network.

4500+ Alumni in our Global Network

150+ Alumni Serving in the Judiciary and Government Agencies

Weil’s summer associates share their perspectives on firm culture, mentoring, training, assignments, pro bono and social events. Read through more than 30 first-person views on a day in the life of a Weil summer associate.

Read Summer Associate Perspectives.

The Weil Diversity Fellowship Program supports the firm’s overall commitment to diversity and is designed to increase the number of diverse attorneys who want to pursue careers at one of our U.S. offices.

Our Summer Associate Program is available in seven U.S. cities. Practice areas and duration vary by city.

• Duration: 12 weeks
• Program Components: No formal rotation; Private Equity
• NALP – Boston

• Duration: 10 weeks (minimum six weeks required)
• Program Components: Up to three department rotations; Business Finance & Restructuring, Corporate, Litigation, Tax
• NALP – Dallas

• Duration: 6-8 weeks
• Program Components: Rotations in two practice areas; Patent Litigation, Business Finance and Restructuring
• NALP – Houston

• Duration: 12 weeks
• Program Components: No formal rotation; Corporate, Real Estate, Complex Commercial Litigation
• NALP – Miami

• Duration: 12 weeks
• Program Components: Up to three department rotations; Business Finance & Restructuring, Corporate, Litigation, Tax
• NALP – New York

• Duration: 12 weeks
• Program Components: Candidates interview for specific practice area; Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Complex Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property, Mergers & Acquisitions, Patent Litigation, Private Equity, Technology & IP Transactions
• NALP – Silicon Valley

• Duration: 10 weeks
• Program Components: No formal rotation; Antitrust Litigation, Patent Litigation, White Collar Defense & Investigations
• NALP – Washington DC

Our commitment to Pro Bono service extends to all aspects of working at Weil. Our full-time associates are allowed the opportunity to work exclusively on pro bono matters with leading public service and charitable organizations for several months.

Summer associates based in New York are given the opportunity to participate in the firm’s pro bono summer externship program by spending two weeks at a public interest organization. These externships afford summer associates the opportunity to attend pro bono training programs, work alongside staff attorneys, conduct administrative hearings, assist on appeals, and interview clients. Apart from externships, summer associates are also assigned pro bono cases under the supervision of attorneys in the various practice groups through which they rotate.

Diversity and inclusion have been core values since our founding in 1931. For over 30 years, Weil has been a leader in investing in formal initiatives to promote an inclusive culture. Our culture of respect and support creates an environment where all feel comfortable and encouraged to excel.

• Among the first firms to implement formal affinity groups; unique among firms by hosting individual conferences for Asian-American, Black, Latino, and LGBT attorneys.
• Weil’s U.S. employees speak 49 languages; 40% of 2016 U.S. summer associates were LGBT and/or people of color; 16 firm leaders are LGBT, people of color or women; 41% of U.S. partners promoted since 2007 have been women.
• Weil celebrated its fifth biennial anniversary of Diversity Week by supersizing our efforts to a month-long celebration. In November 2015, the firm hosted over 60 events worldwide.
• Weil’s Diversity Fellowship Program offers $10,000 scholarship awards to first- and second-year law students to promote greater diversity in the profession. Since 2011, the firm has awarded 29 fellows.
• Upstander@Weil is an innovative new initiative to inspire all attorneys and staff to stand up for inclusion by expanding the powerful “ally” concept to people of color, LGBT, women, and other groups.
• Weil won “Best International Firm for Diversity” at Euromoney’s Americas Women in Business Law Awards in 2016 and 2017 and was honored by Morgan Stanley with the 2016 “Leadership and Excellence in Inclusion and Diversity” Award.

Hear from Weil lawyers about our Diversity Initiatives and Retention

• On Staffing: Danielle Donovan, Associate, New York
• Retention Efforts: Justin D. Lee, Associate, New York

Weil’s commitment to pro bono work is deeply ingrained in our culture. We believe that it is our obligation to volunteer our skills to those who would otherwise face severe challenges as victims of injustice or abuse without legal representation. The importance Weil places on providing these services to the community is demonstrated by our goal of having all lawyers at the firm perform 50 hours of pro bono work each year.

Recent Pro Bono News

• Weil Attorneys Secure Victory in Florida on Behalf of Human Trafficking Victim
• Weil Secures Asylum for Man Fleeing Anti-LGBT Persecution in Belarus
• Weil and Sanctuary for Families Win Parole for Victim of Domestic Violence

Named to Pro Bono Hot List

Pro Bono Partnership Champion

Named Best International Law Firm for Pro Bono Work

To apply for an associate position at Weil, please submit an application online for any of the positions listed below. Search firms should email candidate applications directly to the Recruiting Contact in the office(s) in which the applicant is interested.

Available Lateral Associate Positions

• Banking & Finance – Dallas, TX
  The Banking & Finance group of the Dallas, TX office is looking to hire a Mid-Level Associate for our Dallas office. The ideal candidate should have experience in finance transactions, including acquisition financing, investment grade lending, leveraged lending and debt restructuring transactions. Candidate should have 3-6 years of experience. High level of academic achievement and large law firm experience preferred. Click here to apply.
• Executive Compensation & Benefits – New York, NY
  The Executive Compensation & Benefits group of the New York, NY office is looking to hire a Mid to Senior Level Associate. The ideal candidate should have experience in a broad range of transactional executive compensation and benefit matters. Candidate should have 3-6 years of experience. High level of academic achievement and law firm experience preferred. Click here to apply.
• Employment Litigation – New York, NY
  The Employment Litigation group of the New York, NY office is looking to hire a highly motivated Junior to Mid-Level Associate who enjoys all aspects of a diverse employment practice, including working on major litigations, conducting internal investigations, regularly advising and counseling clients and speaking and publishing on topics in the field. Candidate should ideally have 2-4 years of meaningful employment litigation experience. Candidate should have excellent analytical, litigation, and verbal and written communication skills. A high level of academic achievement and large law firm experience is preferred. Click here to apply.
• Patent Litigation – New York, NY & Silicon Valley, CA
  The Patent Litigation group is looking to hire Junior to Mid-Level Associates for both our New York and Silicon Valley offices. Candidates should have patent litigation and/or IPR experience. Candidates having a technical background in life sciences, electrical engineering, physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, or computer science are preferred. A high level of achievement and law firm experience is required. Click here to apply for the New York Office. Click here to apply for the Silicon Valley Office.

Apply for an Associate Position at Weil Here.

Everything you would expect from a large international law firm – and some things you wouldn’t. Our benefits, perks and programs demonstrate Weil’s commitment to being a great place to work. Your total compensation package is more than just your salary. It also includes an excellent benefits package and much more, featuring:

Highlights of our U.S. work-life programs, benefits and resources include—but are not limited to—the following.

Career & Life Coaching
Attorneys in the U.S. have access to up to 6 hours per year of confidential, one-on-one external professional coaching to navigate work/life challenges. This service is provided by the firm at no cost to U.S. attorneys and their spouses/significant others.

Bright Horizons

• U.S. employees have access to back-up child care for children ages three months to twelve years when a regular child care provider is unavailable.
• Bright Horizons has a network of over 2,500 locations nationwide of back-up childcare centers as well as access to over 20,000 in-home care providers to care for dependent children and/or adult/elder relatives.
• These services may be used up to 20 visits per child/per year at no cost to the employee.
• In addition, all employees in the U.S. have access to an additional 20 days of back-up care during their child’s first year through the Infant Transition Program.
• These benefits are all provided by the Firm at no cost to all Weil employees.

Milk Stork
Milk Stork helps business traveling, nursing mothers store and ship their milk back home to her baby while she is away. This service is provided by the firm at no cost to female attorneys and administrative personnel in our U.S. offices.

SOFI
Social Finance ("SoFi") provides a suite of financing/refinancing options with low interest rates (and other perks): student loan, mortgage, personal, and parent loans.

Flexible Work Arrangements
Weil has a long-standing Flex-Time program for associates to adopt a reduced work schedule while continuing their commitment to practicing law.

Inclusive Parental Leave
Female and male attorneys in the U.S. are eligible for:

• up to 18 weeks paid leave in the U.S. for associates who are expecting to give birth to a child
• up to 10 weeks for associates whose spouse/domestic partner is expecting to give birth to a child
• up to 10 weeks for adoption leave

Inclusive Benefits

• Transgender health benefits
• Same and opposite sex domestic partner benefits

• Health Club Membership Reimbursement Program
• Fitness Center Corporate Discounts
• Private Banking at Citi Private Bank
• Travel Desk to arrange all corporate and personal travel

Weil has a long history of giving back to the community, particularly to organizations with diverse constituents, and by working together, we can make a bigger impact in the lives of people who need our support.

Volunteer Time Off – Our VTO program allows all employees based in Weil’s U.S. offices to utilize up to one day of paid time off per year for the purpose of volunteering with an approved nonprofit organization. VTO is in addition to your paid time off.

Weil Gives – Employee Giving Program – Weil Gives is our new employee giving program to facilitate and encourage charitable giving on an individual level. Each month, Weil will designate a particular cause or issue to support, and each U.S. office will select a local charity for which to raise money that is related to the designated cause. We challenge each other to contribute the most money to worthy causes. The Philanthropic Committee matches up to $25,000 annually for the office that has the greatest overall percentage participation in the Weil Gives program.