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With one of the top life sciences practices in the city and the region, Wilson Sonsini’s Boston office offers exciting opportunities in a range of corporate, patent, transactions, and regulatory practices.
Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and universities in and around the area, our Boston team represents innovators in several industries, including life sciences, technology, sustainability, clean energy, and financial services.
Our Boston office’s clients range from early-stage start-ups to public companies, as well as their board and management teams. We also represent leading venture capital and private equity firms, along with other investor institutions.
Because our team is advancing companies in new markets worldwide, our Boston-based attorneys represent clients in their most important matters, including with respect to the development of their intellectual property portfolios, preferred stock financings, initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures and strategic partnering agreements.
Our Boston summer program typically brings in five to 10 summer associates in our corporate, energy and climate solutions, patents and innovations, or technology transactions practices.
Explore Boston Practices
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Seating in the reception area of the new Wilson Sonsini Boston office. -
The conference rooms in Boston can accommodate meetings of many different sizes. This is one of the larger and more formal meeting rooms. -
Other conference spaces in the Boston office allow colleagues to work together in smaller groups. -
The Boston office has several sizes and types of communal space, both for working or for colleagues to get together over coffee or lunch. Here, Jessica Ramsey, a patent litigation associate in our San Francisco office, works in one of our more casual Boston conference rooms while waiting for the Life Sciences Summit to begin. -
Gathering spaces for attorneys and staff range from formal conference space to more casual surroundings. Attorneys and staff use them for meetings, but also for meals and other social time. -
The two floors of the Boston office are connected by an internal staircase. -
The location of the Boston office affords beautiful views of historic landmarks and the harbor. -
Wherever you turn in the Boston office, you find another space set up for collaboration or an opportunity to connect with a colleague, such as this space just past the elevators. -
Ying Chen, a Patents and Innovations associate, discusses a draft patent application with Weigang Lu, a patent agent, in a typical Boston attorney's office. -
A typical office setup in Boston. Some attorneys and staff personalize their offices a great deal. For those visiting Boston from one of our other offices, hoteling space is available.
Join Our Team
Wilson Sonsini is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to play a critical role in protecting the Firm’s global technology environment. This is a high-impact opportunity for a hands-on security leader who thrives on solving complex challenges, strengthening defenses, and responding decisively to evolving threats. Partnering closely with the Director of Security Engineering and Operations, you’ll shape security strategy, lead incident response, and drive continuous improvement across our security architecture and operations.
The firm is seeking a Senior Proposal Manager who combines exceptional writing and storytelling ability with the discipline to lead complex, high-stakes proposal processes from kickoff through final delivery. This role partners closely with attorneys and practice groups to craft compelling proposals and RFPs that help drive the firm's growth and expand its client base. The ideal candidate will have exceptional written and verbal communication, strong strategic project management capabilities, and a collaborative, team-oriented approach.
Join Wilson Sonsini's emerging companies group, home to our deepest bench in early- and growth-stage company representation. You will work at the center of Silicon Valley's startup ecosystem, representing the founders, emerging growth companies, and venture investors building the next generation of AI and other category-defining businesses. Our clients range from stealth-mode startups to the most prominent late-stage private companies in the Valley.
You will leverage your 3-6 years of relevant corporate experience to take a leading role on the full range of strategic transactions that define a company's first decade. You will run deals, manage client relationships, mentor junior associates, and develop the judgment that comes from advising founders and boards through inflection points, from Seed stage through pre-IPO and beyond. Our collaborative team invests heavily in associate development, both on the substantive work and on the client relationships that will define your career.
The AI Systems Manager (ASM) will help lead the firm’s enterprise artificial intelligence platform function, with direct responsibility for the administration, adoption and governance of the firm’s AI systems at enterprise scale. The ASM oversees the full range of firm-wide AI tools, including chat-based, agentic and developer-facing products, and is accountable for ensuring these platforms remain secure, well-governed, cost-effective and broadly adopted throughout the enterprise.
If you would like to submit an application to Wilson Sonsini, but do not see an active posting for the office or practice you are interested in, please apply here.
Did you know?
In 2022, Wilson Sonsini attorneys and staff participated in nearly 80 community service projects, and the Wilson Sonsini Foundation contributed almost $1.6 million to more than 90 law-related organizations and nearly 130 community organizations.