Laterals and Judicial Clerks

Grow your career in an innovative environment that grows with you.

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We are committed to excellence in how we represent our clients, develop our people and serve our communities. We partner with our clients to deliver cutting-edge legal and commercial insights. As part of our team, you’ll gain exposure to a range of complex issues. Which means you’ll build a career you care about.

Hear from recent laterals

Our collaborative culture and exciting projects make this a great place to grow your career – but don’t take our word for it. Hear from some of our recent laterals on why they chose to join DLA Piper and their impressions on the teamwork and culture of the firm.

Committed to your success

Your capabilities matched with ours

Grow your career by tapping into our leading practices to deliver smart, creative solutions to our clients' toughest legal challenges. Our highly collaborative approach allows you to work with colleagues across offices and practice areas.

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Innovation

Our constant pursuit of innovation has helped transform the delivery of legal services. One example is AI ChatRoom, our captivating series of conversational videos that helps businesses understand the rapidly evolving landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI) laws and regulations.

Opportunity for professional development

Talent development

We help our lawyers reach their highest potential as professionals, consistent with our standard of excellence in client service and commitment to connecting our people, our clients and our communities. Your professional development is supported through annual goal setting, technical and leadership training, mentoring, career development, and comprehensive performance management.

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Pro bono

Pro bono is a professional obligation for US lawyers; it benefits our firm and communities, strengthens our sustainability and diversity and inclusion efforts, and offers our lawyers new perspectives. We believe in a collaborative approach to pro bono, and often work alongside firm clients, legal service providers and others to broaden the impact of our pro bono efforts.

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Opportunities for judicial clerks

Judicial clerks

We recognize and appreciate the experience and training that judicial clerks bring to our team. Each year, we actively seek to hire former judicial clerks who are seeking a home to build their careers once their clerkship ends. We are committed to developing our people, serving our communities and providing innovative service excellence to our clients.

In appreciation of your prior experience, we offer service credit for your time devoted to the clerkship as well as competitive bonuses for the completion of qualifying Article III clerkships.

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Benefits

We strive to provide a holistic benefits package to support the diverse health and well-being needs for you and your family and to meet you where you are in life. We recognize the demands of work and personal life, and we aspire to provide you with useful benefits and tools to help manage and attain a healthy and productive life.

Well-being

Taking care of yourself and your family goes beyond traditional benefits. From massage therapy reimbursements to mindfulness apps, you will have resources to nurture your mind and body. We offer virtual programs to support mental health and self-care goals through Guide + Thrive in addition to providing onsite counselors in a number of our offices. From backup child and adult/elder and pet care, to educational advising through College Coach and ReThink Care, we provide resources that can help you juggle the realities of everyday life.

Flexibility

We embrace a fully flexible work environment, combining in-office and remote work and leveraging state-of-the-art technology to enable exceptional client service regardless of one’s location. You are encouraged to discuss how the firm’s flexible work approach applies to the role you are interviewing for during the interview process.

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Get to know us

Our lawyers give a behind-the-scenes look at their individual paths to careers in the legal industry and share what motivates them inside and outside of the office.

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