Dallas
The Dallas office of Sidley Austin LLP is the only office in the Firm that focuses exclusively on a single practice area: intellectual property. Our experience in intellectual property protection, litigation, counseling, and licensing extends across a wide range of technical disciplines. Our lawyers have experience in developing strategies to protect the products and services of our clients with patent, trademark, copyright and other intellectual property rights in today's competitive business environment. Representing clients in a broad base of technical areas provides the Dallas office with a depth of experience and resources to address virtually any client need or issue.
The Dallas office is renowned for its successes in the area of intellectual property litigation. To build on this record of success we look for talented women and men with inquisitive legal minds who desire to work in a team environment. The Dallas office strives to maintain an informal, collegial, and cooperative atmosphere for all of its lawyers.
We are committed to the professional development of each lawyer in the Dallas office. Because we are dedicated to helping you gain practical, hands-on experience and master new skills throughout your first years with the Firm we offer the following:
- A Firm-wide new associate orientation program.
- A Firm-wide mid-level associate conference.
- Litigation skills training programs.
- Patent prosecution training programs.
- In-house programs including legal writing seminars, litigation skills, electronic discovery, assessing intellectual property valuations, due diligence and other such programs.
- Firm-paid CLE.
Associates also are provided with mentoring and training in the areas of practice development and pro bono matters. Many times associates participate in the preparation for and the presentation to prospective clients. Associates are encouraged to be involved in pro bono matters to both hone their counseling and litigation skills and to contribute to the community.
Because all of Sidley Austin LLP's offices take an interdisciplinary approach to representation, new associates have many opportunities to work with lawyers from other offices and practice areas. We schedule regular evaluations during which an associate can discuss his or her professional development and advancement toward partnership.
We encourage an open door policy for feedback between associates and partners. The goals are to provide an open flow of ideas and to build professional relationships.
Summer Program
The Dallas office relies mainly on its summer program for associate hiring needs. The majority of new associates participated in the summer program.
The aim of the Dallas office is to hire summer associates for its summer program who will be qualified to become associates after graduation. The Dallas office takes pride
in its summer program which is structured so that the summer associate works on a variety of challenging and interesting work with feedback from the partner or associate
from whom the work is assigned. In addition, the Dallas office makes every effort to give the summer associate a true picture of what it is like to be an associate with
the Dallas office of Sidley Austin LLP.
The goal of the summer program is to acquaint the summer associate with the practice of intellectual
property law, the lawyers and staff of the Dallas office and the city of Dallas. Our summer program has been successful in its goal of identifying summer associates who
are qualified to join us as permanent associates.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SUMMER PROGRAM INCLUDE:
- Mentoring: Each summer associate works closely with a supervising partner and associate who will assign work, supply timely feedback and answer any questions.
- Variety: You will get the opportunity to work on a variety of challenging projects including litigation-related projects, patent prosecution, and trademark prosecution.
- Training: We are proud to offer a combination of training in our summer program that few firms can equal. Weekly patent prosecution workshops are conducted to teach you how to write patent claims, how to respond to office actions from the Patent & Trademark Office, and other prosecution skills. We offer an interactive, hands-on litigation school where you will learn litigation skills such as interviewing fact witnesses, deposing witnesses, examining witnesses, and arguing motions.
- Field Trip: 2L Summer associates travel to Washington, D.C. where they will visit the Firm's D.C. office, tour the U.S. Supreme Court, hear an oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and have the opportunity to sightsee.
- Flexibility: We prefer summer associates to spend the first half of their summer with us, but we will consider second half or entire summer employment.
- Sociability: Because we feel it is essential get to know each other on both a professional and personal level, various cultural and social events are planned as part of our summer program.
EXPERIENCE Dallas:
- Experience Dallas' unique blend of Southwestern warmth, cosmopolitan flair and modern sophistication.
- Work in the Southwest’s leading business and financial center.
- Live in the ninth largest city in the United States. The city of Dallas has a population of 1,208,318 with room to roam in 384 square miles.
- Discover more than 160 museums, galleries and artistic attractions in Dallas.
- Enjoy live music every night from Country & Western music to blues, rock, symphony and much more.
- Partake of the cuisine with more than 7,000 restaurants to enjoy.
- Shop until you drop with more shopping centers per capita than any other major U.S. city.
- Dallas/Fort Worth has been ranked among the seven most livable urban complexes in the world.
- Home to many professional sports — Dallas Cowboys Football, Dallas Mavericks Basketball, Dallas Stars Hockey,
Texas Rangers Baseball, Dallas Burn Soccer, thoroughbred horseracing at Lone Star Park, and professional racing at Texas Motor Speedway.
For more information contact:
Brenda A. Keel
Legal Recruiter Sidley Austin LLP 717 N. Harwood Suite 3400 Dallas, TX 75201
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