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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 has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Security Engineer to support our firm's information security monitoring and response activities. This role is also accountable for providing expertise and support in the areas of security engineering, incident response and risk management. The ideal candidate will understand the information security lifecycle and how to apply a disciplined approach to security that takes the business needs of the Firm into account.
Wilson Sonsini is looking for an enthusiastic and energic Rates Administrator to join the firm’s Finance Department. This role will promote the development of Billing and eBilling workflows throughout the firm.
Given Wilson Sonsini’s nexus to companies with next-generation products and innovative biotechnologies, our FDA regulatory group commonly helps clients with novel technologies and therapeutics and develops FDA regulatory strategies. Our global life sciences practice, one of the largest in the U.S., offers the opportunity to work with a broad range of companies, including medical devices, drugs, biologics, diagnostics, digital health, research tools, cosmetics, dietary supplements, wellness products, and other consumer products.
We are looking for a senior FDA regulatory counsel with at least 10 years of industry experience in drug/biologics development, including deep expertise in FDA regulation of drugs, biologics, cellular and gene therapy products to join our team. You will also support corporate teams in M&As, asset deals, IPOs, and other complex transactions, and patent teams in areas where FDA regulation overlap with patent strategy. You may sit in Seattle, Washington DC, Boston, San Francisco, Palo Alto, or San Diego; other locations considered for exceptional candidates.
The Enterprise Applications Engineer will help implement the technology initiatives and support the vendor-based technology roadmap. The Enterprise Applications Engineer will manage and provide technical leadership of projects involving large-scale, complex, and highly analytical tasks. This individual will be a full stack developer and will serve as an expert by performing work requiring a very high level of technical knowledge of several areas. This role will design and support building key components of our application landscape.
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.