A Personalized Summer
All summer, your assignments will be carefully chosen by two people — and one of them is you. The other is an assignment coordinator who will advise you and consult with you for the duration of the program.
Control Your Own Program
In our program, you are not required to rotate through departments — you can choose where you work. You are free to work in several practice areas or, if you prefer, focus on one area for most of the summer. Each week, you are given the opportunity to update your department preferences, which lets you customize your work assignments to your own ambitions. The idea is to give you the broadest possible view of the firm landscape in order to help you see where you might fit in — but even more, to help you understand the breadth of the opportunities in front of you.
Shadowing
Throughout the summer, there will be numerous opportunities to shadow our partners and associates as they go about their business. You might join a client meeting, participate in a conference call, attend a hearing or a court session, sit in on a negotiation, or be involved in any of the dozens of things that happen in the day-to-day life of a lawyer. In so doing, you will learn — through observation and participation — what working at Kramer Levin is all about.
Past Summer Projects
In recent years, our summer associates have worked on a wide variety of cases and deals. Here are some examples:
- Researched the issue of business judgment in the context of employee compensation agreements; drafted a portion of a summary judgment motion related to this issue
- Researched the consequences of mischaracterizing a derivative work as an original work or vice versa in an application to the United States Copyright Office
- Assisted with the closing of a corporate merger
- Helped prepare the documentation for a hostile proxy contest
- Worked on the preparation for and attended a meeting at the U.S. Attorney’s Office regarding a political corruption investigation; afterward, prepared a memo to the files documenting the presentation and discussion with the AUSA
- Conducted research to help develop the legal theories underlying Kramer Levin’s groundbreaking civil rights work on behalf of same-sex couples and their families
- Had the opportunity to draft sections of a major bankruptcy treatise
- Drafted formation documents for Delaware limited liability company
- Represented a young Rwandan woman in the first phase of her efforts to gain asylum, working with one other summer associate and two attorneys
- Drafted meeting notes from a client prep meeting in a white collar criminal investigation, and attended an under-oath interview between our client and investigators from the Securities and Exchange Commission
- Conducted research and prepared a presentation on the advantages and disadvantages of different entity types in New York and Delaware
- Drafted a deposition preparation outline and assembled a deposition binder for a partner in an employment litigation/sexual harassment case, and attended the deposition with the partner