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What do you get when you combine an international business destination, a thriving entrepreneurial community, and a growing investor base? An unbeatable place to build your legal skills and book of business.
Wilson Sonsini’s substantial Los Angeles practice has led the firm to establish two office locations: Downtown and Century City. Wilson Sonsini lawyers in Los Angeles share one culture across two locations. While everyone is formally assigned to one office, many of our Los Angeles lawyers spend time in both locations—some occasionally and others more regularly.
Founded in 2013, our Downtown office sits in the heart of the Los Angeles legal scene, near many other law firms and the US Courthouse. Our clients come from both innovative and established industries, including digital media and entertainment, life sciences, gaming, internet services, mobile, and retail and consumer products and services.
Joining the Los Angeles offices in litigation means joining an exciting and growing team that is committed to bringing high-stakes and high-profile disputes (such as the 2022 Vanessa Bryant case) to trial. You’ll work with premier litigators who commit to small teams and close mentoring, and to work directly with clients and have early responsibility. Our Los Angeles team also features attorneys who represent both public and private companies in a variety of corporate and securities transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, equity and debt financings, and joint ventures.
We ask our summer associates to spend time in both offices so that they can connect with all of our attorneys and other professionals in both neighborhoods. Between our Los Angeles offices, the firm usually brings in two to five summer associates each year, focusing on our complex litigation and patent litigation practices.
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The firm has a brand new opening for a seasoned Account Manager to join the Finance department. This is a spectacular opportunity to be part of team that focuses on achieving financial goals. This position will be responsible for managing client account portfolios and will interface extensively with our clients, our partnership and firm senior management. This role is available as a hybrid work schedule and open to any of our US office locations.
The firm is seeking a Business Development Manager that will play a pivotal role in proactively generating and supporting the business development and marketing opportunities for select groups of partners in our Corporate Department. The successful candidate will have a wide and deep knowledge base of the financial markets with an emphasis on the early- and late-stage private, capital markets, M&A, and public company ecosystem across all industry verticals; significant Big Law business development experience; and a high comfort level working in an entrepreneurial environment.
Join our market-leading Energy & Climate Solutions (ECS) Practice group as a renewable energy project finance associate. You will have an opportunity to work closely with experienced partners and senior lawyers who can provide active mentoring and to be part of a collaborative team. You will be given the opportunity to assume a high level of responsibility and client contact with companies ranging from start-ups to the world’s leading international infrastructure investors as well as to gain a wide range of project finance and development experience working with some of the industry’s leading and most innovative companies.
If you have 3-5 years of substantial transactional experience at a major law firm with a focus on project finance and/or structured asset-based finance and non-recourse lending transactions, we want to hear from you. Ideally, you will have experience representing sponsors, developers, borrowers, lenders, or investors, with experience in secured lending, tax equity and other LLC financings and joint ventures. You will preferably have experience in clean energy and climate infrastructure finance.
Wilson Sonsini offers exciting opportunities for summer associates to work closely with the world's leading technology, life sciences, and growth companies, as well as companies across industries. We are seeking current 2L law students (JD 2027) interested in joining Wilson Sonsini as part of the 2026 Summer Program. Candidates should have outstanding academic credentials, as well as excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills. Our broad spectrum of practices and our entrepreneurial spirit afford our summer associates and attorneys exceptional opportunities for professional growth and exploration.
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.
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Year after year, Wilson Sonsini ranks among the most diverse law firms in the United States. For us, diversity is not just a commitment—it is integrated throughout our business, from recruiting to promotion.