Today, we are thrilled to welcome our 2022 Summer Associates! They’ll be spending the next couple of days in orientation and will be ready to share their summer experience right here. After two years of a fully virtual summer program, we look forward to mostly in person summer program with meaningful assignments, tag along opportunities,
Orientation
A Sweet Deal: Reviews, Closing, and Tag Along Opportunities

My computer chimed shortly after two o’clock. It was an email notification from Jessica announcing that it was time to schedule our end-of-summer reviews. During our…
Life lessons with Marshall

As the summer program makes it past the half-way mark, we summer associates have talked to many attorneys who have generously offered us their perspectives and tips for success. Their experiences and insights have been invaluable in helping us understand the profession in a much more grounded and hands-on manner. One of the attorneys who…
Motions, Memos, and Billable Hours, Oh My!

The last thing on my mind when I entered into finals season last fall, at the end of my first (and entirely online) semester of law school, was where I would be working in the summer. My first finals season was filled with stress and a total lack of familiarity with the law school system,…
Zooming Through Orientation: A Swift Start to the Summer

This year, we kicked off the Summer Associate Program at Bilzin Sumberg with a warm welcome from Jessica Buchsbaum, Betsi Cobas, and Jay Sakalo. The Summer Associates and I logged into our next virtual orientation session, and we were honored…
Zoom In: The Summer Program, Work-from-Home Edition
This week, my fellow Summer Associates and I started our much-anticipated positions at Bilzin Sumberg. While the coronavirus is keeping us away from the office and out of the Courthouse, Jessica and Betsi have planned an engaging and robust, albeit untraditional, Summer Program. On our opening Zoom call, Jessica and Jay welcomed the six…
A Warm Welcome!

After a week full of fun and informative orientation sessions, the Summer Associates are ready to delve into our assignments! However, I first wanted to reflect back on our first week at the firm. As Summer Associates, a…
Judged by the Company We Keep

The Summer Associates have officially arrived, and we are so excited to be here! As we wrap up our first week at the firm, I would like to reflect on some of the events we attended during our first…
Summer Has O-FISH-ally Begun!

This week, we welcomed the 2019 Summer Associates to Bilzin Sumberg. I know that you’ll enjoy hearing about our summer program through Sophia, Kayla, Franco, Jordan, Brian.
Over the next nine weeks, you’ll have the opportunity to hear from them about their experience at Bilzin Sumberg – from work assignments, tag alongs, training and…
Developing Communities, Relationships, and Associates
The first week has really flown by and it is hard to believe it is already the end of our first week of the Academy. The morning started out with a firm-wide breakfast for Teach for America – an organization near and dear to both the firm and our clients.
After the breakfast, Stacia …