Summer Associate Program

Want to learn what it REALLY takes to be a lawyer? Then the SPvG Summer Associate Program is for you.

Learn the secrets to conducting quality research. Meet the clients. Prepare witnesses. SPvG's Summer Associate Program invites you to see how it really works inside one of the Midwest's best law firms.

Highlights of the program include:

• Quality time with each of the four practice groups allows you to explore the different components of law.
  
  
• An upper level associate will serve as your mentor, providing you with one-on-one guidance and support.
  
  
• The firm's monthly in-house continuing legal education program addresses important topics such as negotiating skills, interviewing witnesses, discovery issues, handling real estate transactions and attorney marketing skills.
  
  
• Our “lunch program” is the ideal way to meet each of the SPvG attorneys in a relaxed environment and ask questions about your career.
  
  
• A videotaped motion argument in SPvG's own state-of-the-art courtroom lets you see yourself in action and get feedback from our attorneys.
  
  
• Apply your skills during an actual courtroom experience.
  
  
• A tour of a local courthouse and lunch with a judge is a great way to help you become familiar with your physical surroundings.
  
  
• SPvG's "Shadowing Program" allows you to shadow a partner or senior level associate in court, depositions, and meetings.
  
  
• Numerous social events during the summer - including the annual Firm Picnic, a family day event, bowling night, and gatherings at some of the partners' homes - provide opportunities to get to know SPvG attorneys.

 

• Overview
• Career Opportunities
• New Associate Program
• Summer Associate Program
• Benefits

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“The fact that even as a summer associate I was able to meet with clients and appear in court assured me that as a new associate I would be doing more than research.”

- April Haag
Saint Louis University