Summer Associate Program

Complete our online application, which asks for a cover letter describing your practice area and interests, a most up-to-date resume, and your law school transcript.  

Please note, if a candidate receives an offer through our direct application program, we anticipate their decision within 21 days from the date of the offer.

Complete an assessment by Suited. If you've already completed the assessment, log into your Suited account and share your results by accepting our invitation to connect. Please ensure that you use the same email address for both your application and assessment. Refer to their Student Resource Guide for more info.

Goodwin has partnered with Suited, a candidate screening platform, to help us better understand our applicants and expand access to our Summer Associate program. Our goal is to make the recruiting process as fair and seamless as possible, so that we can find candidates who will be fulfilled in their roles and complementary to our culture. Your results will be used as just one of many factors in evaluating your candidacy.

New York City Local Law No. 144 Notice: Pursuant to New York City Local Law No. 144, Goodwin provides the following disclosures: Goodwin uses the automated employment decision tool Suited to assess candidates who seek employment with the firm as attorneys, including candidates who reside in New York City. Suited exclusively collects and analyzes psychometric data provided by individual candidates during each candidate’s assessment. Goodwin Procter retains candidate scores generated by Suited for three (3) years. For more information regarding Goodwin’s use of Suited, please contact Karen Rameika.

Goodwin’s most recent bias audit of Suited can be accessed here.

Serve both innovator and investor clients from start-ups to commercial stage biopharmaceuticals, as well as the investors, banks, and others who support those companies

Help technology companies secure funding, protect their intellectual property, and navigate a challenging regulatory environment, buyouts, growth equity deals, and growth company representations across sectors

Focus on transactions involving equity and debt financings, joint ventures, portfolio, and REIT mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, hospitality and leisure, and large-scale development work

Provide clients with a full-service platform across transactional, compliance, regulatory, enforcement, and litigation matters

Focus on middle market private equity and advise founders, buyers, sellers, investors, boards, and special committees in matters across the corporate lifecycle

Handle trials and arbitrations, class actions, and appellate work at the local, state, and federal levels in the US, with a growing litigation presence in the UK

Focus on matters involving pharmaceutical and life sciences patents and specialize in high-stakes trials and appeals, US Patent Trial and Appeal Board matters, and International Trade Commission litigation