Changing firms mid-career—or returning to private practice after serving in government or in-house roles—can be an incredibly exciting time. Transitioning your practice at a time of your career marked by substantial growth means you need a firm who will set you up for success.
By joining Wilson Sonsini, you’ll have a global platform and an incredibly dynamic client base on which to grow your business. And our robust lateral integration efforts and associate training academies will ensure that you don’t miss a step on your way up the ladder.
Wilson Sonsini’s real estate team advises an unparalleled portfolio of tech and life sciences clients at every stage of their growth, on everything from leasing to acquisitions, dispositions, and financings. We are looking for an associate with 3-5 years of transactional experience at a law firm, including leasing and purchase and sale work. You will join a small, collaborative team that offers active mentoring and ongoing training, take on a high level of responsibility, and work directly with leading and innovative companies. For more information, click the Details button.
Wilson Sonsini’s Trademark and Advertising practice helps clients from AI and biotech startups to game-changing public companies build, vet, and defend their brands. Much of the work has no clear precedent, from AI-generated voices and likenesses to virtual worlds and influencer marketing, so you often advise before a problem ever reaches a courtroom.
We are looking for an associate with 2-5 years of experience in trademark, copyright, advertising, and Internet liability who wants real ownership of enforcement and dispute work. You will clear and prosecute trademarks, handle oppositions and enforcement from demand letters to federal litigation, and advise on advertising claims for clients with global ambitions. Sharp writing and practical creativity matter here, and a sense of humor is always appreciated. For more information, click the Details button.
Our nationally recognized technology transactions team partners with innovative life sciences companies, from biotech to medical devices, on the commercial arrangements that drive how their technology is developed and brought to the market. The work includes collaboration agreements, foundational technology licenses, and asset sales and spin-outs.
We are looking for an associate with 3 to 6 years of transactional and licensing experience and a genuine interest in life sciences. You will have early client contact, exposure to a broad range of deals, and close work with attorneys across the firm, in an entrepreneurial group that values collaboration, high performance, and diverse perspectives. For more information, click the Details button.
Wilson Sonsini’s emerging companies group is our deepest bench in early- and growth-stage company representation, advising everyone from stealth-mode startups to some of the most prominent late-stage private companies across AI, climate, fintech, and software. We are looking for a corporate associate with 3-6 years of experience to take a leading role on venture financings, formations, and M&A, running deals, managing client relationships, and mentoring junior associates while advising founders and boards through inflection points from seed stage through pre-IPO.
Prior emerging companies experience is not required, and we welcome candidates with M&A or other transactional backgrounds. This is a collaborative team that invests heavily in associate development, on the substance of the work and on the client relationships that will define your career. For more information, click the Details button.
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Our Academies are the cornerstone of our professional development programming. The academies are offered for associates in their first, third, fifth, and seventh years. There is also an academy for summer associates and one for those who have newly joined our member ranks. Conducted as multi-day conferences…
Part of our strength as a firm comes from working across practice groups to serve our clients. Learn more about the many industries where our myriad practice groups and areas of expertise come together to serve bleeding-edge clients and technologies.
Associates represent the future of our firm, and their insights, perspectives, and talents are a key ingredient for the firm’s success. Therefore, it’s critical that they have a voice in firm decisions and policies.
Every firm has its own insider knowledge base—the quirks and ways of working that are hard to understand until you actually work there. Wherever possible, we try to tell you about those quirks as you’re researching us so that you can get a better understanding of how we operate. Which leads us to answer the question: At Wilson Sonsini, what do we mean by “neighborhoods”?
