SUMMER PROGRAM IN A NUTSHELL

I loved the summer program. Being the only summer associate in the office for 80% of my summer was an incredible experience. Everyone knew that I was the summer, and as such, I was given great assignments and constantly asked if there was anyth...

As a future lawyer interested in litigation, I knew Quinn was a firm that deserves serious consideration.  I’m glad I was able to join the talented attorneys at Quinn this summer and learn from them how to be a more successful trial litigator.  In my...

My summer at Quinn taught me a ton about the law, and about how to function as a lawyer in a bustling firm. I worked on fast-moving matters where my research and analysis were relied upon in briefs and strategy meetings. There was simply no tim...

My summer at Quinn was a fantastic experience. I received real responsibility from the start. I did meaningful work in connection with a variety of interesting cases, including one of the most important cases in the upcoming Supreme Court term ...

When the rest of the legal world thinks of summer associate program they picture a summer of fancy lunches and dinners—but not a bona fide opportunity to develop skills and meaningfully contribute to a case team. Quinn is different. It offers t...

I had a great summer in the Silicon Valley office. If you want to do interesting, substantive work on a huge variety of high-profile cases, supervised by brilliant attorneys who are genuinely interested in your growth and development, while wea...

Cutting edge legal issues. High stakes cases. Brilliant attorneys. This is what I encountered at Quinn. By day one, I was working on a Supreme Court brief for one of the biggest IP cases in history. By the end of my summer, I had worked on an appella...

My summer experience exceeded all my expectations! From day one, I felt like I was part of a team. It started off on a high note when during the first week I sat in on a deposition. I was brought onto the cases and given substantive work to complete ...

The entire time I was at Quinn, I felt like I was part of the team getting ready for trial. The partners trusted me to prepare language to be submitted to the court or sent to the client. I felt like all of the work that I did genuinely mattered and ...

This summer has been thrilling. Want to be a litigator? Come to Quinn. Real work, great people, and a culture that breeds excellence. You’ll arrive as a wide-eyed 2L; you’ll leave as a future trial lawyer.

If you want a summer full of substantive and interesting work with brilliant litigators, Quinn is where you want to be.  On day one I was doing research for a copyright case that was incorporated into a brief, and by the end of the summer I was helpi...

I chose to work at Quinn for the summer because I believed that it was where I would receive the most responsibility and be able to work on a wide variety of subjects. My summer here happily proved me correct. I was able to do the type of work not av...

I could not have had a better summer.  I had really interesting assignments on a variety of cases, learned new areas of law, and had the opportunity to observe strategy meetings, depositions, and hearings.  One of the best parts of the summer was get...

My summer at Quinn was an amazing experience. I had the opportunity to work on a variety of interesting and substantive projects with a group of very talented lawyers. From writing memos and motions to attending client meetings, hearings, and deposit...

This summer at Quinn  was by far one of the best and most memorable experiences. On any given day, you are surrounded by brilliant lawyers who are staffed on huge, front-page headline cases. Everything from start to finish was a learning experience. ...

I cannot imagine a better summer experience than at Quinn. Coming in, I was interested in getting an accurate picture of working at the firm as an associate, and I cannot wait to come back and continue working with people at Quinn again. I was very i...

There’s a lot of firms that do big cases. There’s a lot of firms that have interesting work. But there is truly no place where you will have the opportunities afforded by Quinn Emanuel. During the summer, you will truly make your own destiny. You can...

My summer with Quinn Emanuel has been fantastic. Not only did I learn how to litigate by observing and working with smart, talented attorneys, but I was also welcomed to share my thoughts and ideas. For example, another summer associate and I did the...

I really enjoyed my summer in Quinn’s Silicon Valley office. The attorneys that I worked with are brilliant and down-to-earth. Also, they were willing to give me substantive work and took the time to give me feedback on my assignments.  I was given t...

Quinn Emanuel has a summer program like no other. Partners and associates gave us substantive and challenging work, and integrated us into their teams. The work was always interesting and the people were smart, thoughtful, and courteous. I was amazed...

There is never a dull day as a QE Summer Associate.  By the end of day one,  I had my first case and was sitting in on a conference call with our adversary.  In the following weeks, I attended depositions, took trips to court, and helped draft motion...

Quinn delivered on its promise that Summer Associates would get the most substantive work in the most enjoyable work environment. In terms of assignments, it was the best of both worlds: I had the freedom to select the projects that I was interested ...

Quinn Emanuel is a great place to spend the summer.  The only downside is how quickly the weeks go by.  The time flies because you are constantly doing meaningful, useful, and interesting work.  This summer I was able to see an entire trial go from s...

I enjoyed my summer at Quinn, and I would recommend summering here to anybody who wants to litigate. Quinn provides summer associates with the unique combination of a laid back, friendly office atmosphere and substantial responsibility on high stakes...

At Quinn Emanuel this summer, I experienced trial litigation from day one.   I worked in all different practices areas:  from IP to white collar to class actions.  In my first week, I conducted research for a high-profile criminal case involving whit...

My summer at Quinn DC exceeded all of my expectations. Aside from working with friendly, smart, and hardworking associates and partners, I was able to work closely on a government contracts case, doing what the associate called the “heavy lifting”: r...

I had an amazing summer at Quinn. I got challenging, substantive assignments, and I learned a lot by being able to do real work. I drafted part of a brief, helped write a complaint, and got to assist at interviews for a white-collar investigation. I ...

The cliché that you will get substantive experience from day one at Quinn is really true.  Within the first two weeks, I was writing motions in limine for an up-coming arbitration.  This wasn’t busy work or a “make believe” assignment; it was work th...

Everything I worked on felt substantive and real—I never felt like my assignments or projects weren’t going to be of some use to the assigning attorneys. There was no shortage of interesting work across various areas of law. I got to take the first c...

As a summer associate at Quinn, I immediately felt like an appreciated and trusted member of the team. I received challenging substantive assignments that would be expected of full-time associates, and attended a hearing, deposition, and oral argumen...

As a Quinn Emanuel summer associate, I was treated like an experienced attorney. In every project, only
substantive work was assigned and the expectation was that my work product would have a real-world impact. I helped my partner-mentor prepare...

My dream job is being a lifelong Quinn Emanuel summer associate. Every assignment I received challenged me to be a more creative lawyer and allowed me to meaningfully contribute to cases. Events like the Napa sip and cycle and the firm hike in Switze...

At Quinn, when you get placed on a case, you are not “the summer associate”; you are part of the team. I’ve spent the last two weeks, for example, working with a single deciding whether the firm is going to bring a case potentially worth tens of mill...

I received a lot of what I expected to get during my summer at Quinn, including the opportunity to work beside brilliant attorneys on interesting, high-stakes litigation matters. My assignments were really varied and truly substantive. I was given re...

My assignments throughout the summer are substantive and meaningful. I helped drafting an amicus brief filed at the 4th Circuit for a pro bono case and a brief filed to the ITC. The trial teams did not just create busywork for summer associates, but ...

Quinn’s summer program truly shows you what it’s like to be an associate. Over the summer I worked a lot with the Latin America team, which was great because they handle a wide variety of matters ranging from commercial litigation to white collar. Th...

I had a great summer in the D.C. office. I was given the pen on first drafts of briefs in a federal appeal and an administrative proceeding. Like a summer associate at any firm, I was assigned to write research memos. But unlike memos written by my p...

I had a fantastic summer at Quinn. My friend at another firm wrote a lengthy memo only to find out a Summer Associate had written a memo on the exact same topic for the same partner only two summers prior. This sort of thing would never happen at Qui...

Spending a summer at Quinn Emanuel means spending a summer doing substantive work for interesting, high-stakes cases. During my summer, I wrote a motion in limine and drafted portions of a memo that was sent to one of QE’s clients. I worked directly ...