* as of 4/2/25
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
The Wilson Sonsini Attorney Recruiting team has an immediate opening for an Onboarding Coordinator. The ideal candidate will be responsible for coordinating the offer process for the lateral team and onboarding all attorney and patent agents, as well as coordinating all integration and retention efforts. This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate looking for growth potential. This role will work closely with various teams within the firm and will maintain strong relationships with the firmwide hiring partners and office administrators to contribute to the development of strategies to attract, hire and retain highly-talented and diverse attorneys.
Wilson Sonsini has an immediate opening for a Senior Pricing Analyst. This position will support the annual rate setting and rate negotiation processes, while continually working to refine pricing infrastructure as well as develop, iterate, and utilize sophisticated pricing and profitability models to support lawyer pricing requests and other pricing projects and initiatives. The Senior Pricing Analyst will work closely with others in the Finance department to further the team objective of implementing pricing and project management best practices, to ensure stakeholders are aware of the financial implications of pricing, process management, and staffing decisions.
Our Technology Transactions Group offers the opportunity for self-motivated and entrepreneurial individuals with a strong interest in technology companies at all stages of growth to help build and grow an established and dynamic national practice. Your work will focus primarily on structuring, drafting, and negotiating a variety of intellectual property and commercial transactions as well as intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, financings, and other multidisciplinary transactions. If you want a career focused on intellectual property and commercial transactions and have 3-6 years of experience, we want to hear from you.
The Firm has a thrilling opportunity for those seeking a fulfilling role as a Temporary Law School Recruiting Assistant. The position is open for immediate hire and the assignment will be through September 2025. This role will be responsible for assisting with our brand building initiatives, summer associate program, campus recruiting efforts, along with working with our dynamic Attorney Recruiting team.
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.