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About the Role
Baker McKenzie's US Emerging Lawyers Academy is an immersive 10-week summer program designed to develop the next generation of global lawyers. The program combines meaningful client work, cross-practice exposure, experiential learning, AI fluency training, tailored coaching and mentoring, and opportunities to build relationships across offices, practices and borders.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to real client matters, collaborative projects, and world-class pro bono initiatives.
- Participate in foundational training designed to build practical legal skills, client-service excellence, professional judgment, and AI fluency through workshops and simulations.
- Explore assignments across five North American practice groups: Commercial, Employment & Compensation, Disputes, Tax, and Transactional.
- Be paired with Partner and Associate mentors for guidance and support.
Requirements
- Strong academic foundation and intellectual curiosity, demonstrated academic achievement, sound judgment, discipline, and a genuine interest in learning.
- Growth mindset and openness to exploration, excitement to try work across different practices, receive feedback, and use the summer experience to better understand where they can thrive.
- Future-ready skillset, showing strong analytical ability, practical problem-solving, and interest in developing AI fluency and innovation-minded client service.
- Global mindset, curiosity about cross-border work, comfort building relationships across offices and diverse cultures, and interest in serving clients in a global firm environment.
- Interest in long-term development at Baker McKenzie, seeing the Academy as more than a summer experience and interested in growing into future associates and global lawyers.
- Submit a resume, cover letter, and unofficial undergraduate transcript for consideration for the 2028 2L Summer Associate Program.
Skills
- AI fluency
- Analytical ability
- Practical problem-solving
- Client service
- Relationship building
- Cross-border work understanding
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Office/Onsite
- Full Time
Experience Level
- Summer Associate
Education Level
- 2L
Salary/Compensations
- $4,326.92 (weekly) if located in an office in the state of California
- $10,000 Academy stipend upon arrival
- $10,000 additional upon associate start date for those who accept an offer to return as first-year associates
Benefits
- Immersive 10-week summer program
- Meaningful client work
- Cross-practice exposure
- Experiential learning
- AI fluency training
- Tailored coaching and mentoring
- Opportunities to build relationships across offices, practices and borders
- Foundational training
- Workshops and simulations
- Partner and Associate mentors
- Individualized support
- Meaningful access to partners and associates
- Opportunities to form lasting professional relationships and friendships
- Client Summer Scholars Program
- Visiting Office Experiences
- In-person Emerging Lawyers Academy Training
About the Company
- Baker McKenzie empowers clients to compete in the global economy by providing comprehensive and practical legal advice that cuts through complexity with clear, actionable guidance.
- Our people represent diverse cultures and jurisdictions, combining local know-how with international expertise to ensure your business thrives across borders.
- We have a team of 13,000 people, including over 6,500 locally admitted lawyers, in over 70 offices worldwide.
- We have a passionately collaborative community of 60 nationalities and are committed to world-class career development to everyone in every job at every level.
- Baker McKenzie can offer you both the uncompromising commitment to excellence expected of a top firm paired with a passionately global and genuinely collaborative working environment.
Equal Opportunity
- Baker McKenzie is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion for all.
- Our unique international culture is reflected in the drawing together of a worldwide family of individuals from diverse cultures and backgrounds in all of our offices.
- We encourage the best people - regardless of race, religion or belief if any, gender, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation or age - to fulfill their professional aspirations with us.
- We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates.
- Should candidates require any reasonable adjustments and/or accommodations when applying to or interviewing with our Firm, please notify recruitmentservices@bakermckenzie.com.
- Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates.