Law Students
1L SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES
Our firm is proud to offer 1L Summer Clerkship positions through a variety of diversity programs, as well as at select offices when positions are available. These clerkships provide first-year law students from ABA-accredited law schools with the opportunity to gain valuable, hands-on experience by working closely with our attorneys across multiple practice areas. We encourage applications from students who are eager to develop their legal skills and engage in meaningful work in a dynamic law firm environment. Our application portal will open on December 2, 2024.
In addition to offering clerkship opportunities at our offices, we participate in several diversity-focused programs aimed at fostering a more inclusive legal profession:
- Atlanta: The Atlanta Bar Association’s Minority and Diversity Clerkship Program
- Denver: The Colorado Pledge to Diversity
- Los Angeles: The Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD)
- Sacramento: The Sacramento County Bar Association’s Diversity Fellowship Program
- San Diego: The San Diego County Bar Association & Association of Corporate Counsel’s Diversity Fellowship Program (SDCBA/AAC DFP)
- San Francisco: The Bay Area Minority Summer Clerkship Program (BAMSCP)
2L/3L SUMMER CLERK PROGRAM
Our summer program is designed to give law students a realistic view of what it is like to practice as a first-year attorney at our firm. We challenge you with meaningful work assignments that reflect the breadth and the depth of labor and employment law. We do not use a formal rotation program. Instead, we encourage you to explore what interests you by choosing your own work assignments from a database of available projects.
We also recognize that training is essential to your success as a summer clerk. In addition to the one-on-one training you receive, while working alongside our attorneys, we offer formal training programs that will help you learn the skills you need to succeed at Fisher Phillips. Our summer clerks also have many opportunities to observe court appearances, depositions, client meetings and mediations. Each summer clerk is assigned an associate mentor who serves as a resource throughout the summer program.
Our summer program is not all about work. We also host a variety of social events to give you the opportunity to meet us outside of the office.
Fisher Phillips interviews second and third-year law students on campus at select schools and job fairs each year. Applications for the 2025 2L Summer Associate Program are now closed. Recruitment details and application information for the 2026 program will be available here in May 2025. For future planning purposes, please see below for the list of schools we attended during this past OCI season. If we do not participate in On Campus Interviews at your school, we encourage you to apply to a posted summer opportunity on our Careers page in 2025.
- American University Washington College of Law
- Belmont University College of Law
- Boston University School of Law
- Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School
- Case Western Reserve University School of Law
- Chapman University, Fowler School of Law
- Cleveland State University College of Law
- George Washington University Law School
- Georgia State University College of Law
- Georgetown University Law Center
- Howard University School of Law
- Loyola Law School
- Mercer University School of Law
- North Carolina Central University School of Law
- Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
- Pepperdine University Rick J. Caruso School of Law
- Rutgers University School of Law
- Seton Hall Law School
- Southeastern Law School Consortium (SELSC)
- Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
- Southern University Law Center
- Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law
- University of California, Davis School of Law
- University of California, Irvine School of Law
- University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
- University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
- University of Cincinnati College of Law
- University of Colorado Law School
- University of Florida Levin College of Law
- University of Georgia School of Law
- University of San Diego School of Law
- University of South Carolina School of Law
- University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
- University of Tennessee College of Law
- USC Gould School of Law
ENTRY LEVEL ASSOCIATES
Fisher Phillips visits a number of law schools to interview and recruit third-year law students for entry-level associate positions in offices across the U.S.
Candidates looking to apply for an entry-level position are encouraged to do so on our Careers page for a posted opening.