Some new Goodwin associates are getting their first on-the-job legal training outside of the firm. They’re part of the firm’s nine-month “client immersion program,” which first launched in January 2024. “Most lawyers gain this perspective much later in their careers, if they ever do, frankly,” Anthony McCusker, Goodwin’s chair, said in an interview with Bloomberg Law. The program is an “opportunity to use such close client relationships that we have to prepare our first-year attorneys with experience that they would not receive anywhere else at this stage in their careers.” “I loved the partners I worked with, and I wanted to get in the weeds,” said Danny Doherty, a Boston-based associate who is now two months into a stint at TA Associates. “I was a little nervous about it just because it was different than the plan I had coming in, but I wanted to do the program because I thought it was a good way to differentiate myself,” Kate Minorini, a second-year associate in Goodwin’s Boston office, said.