John Quinn told the firm’s attorneys Monday that the litigation shop is pretty much done with summer-associate programs. In virtually all large law firms, summer associates—culled from the ranks of elite law schools—spend a few months at a firm after their second year of school and are invited to return full-time after graduation.

That’ll no longer be the case at Quinn Emanuel.

“Although we do our best to ensure that summer associates do real and meaningful work, summer programs are unavoidably unrealistic to a degree,” Mr. Quinn told the firm’s attorneys in an email reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Especially when it comes to the trial work we do here, it’s difficult to parcel out projects that fit within the two months summer associates are with us.”

Instead, the firm plans to focus its recruiting on third-year law students and judicial clerks. Having a clerkship on a resume has long been attractive to law firms, and such clerkships can often earn young lawyers a significant signing bonus.

The summer program at Quinn won’t be totally dead, Mr. Quinn said in the email, but will be limited to 5-10 students firmwide (right now they have in the range of 50). Those students will then go back and spread the word about Quinn on their campuses.

“We will redirect money saved on the summer associate program to signing bonuses for summers, third-year students and judicial clerks who join us on a permanent basis,” he said in the email.

Addressing concerns that law students may be reluctant to join a firm full-time that they haven’t interned at first, Mr. Quinn said in the email that, “I am sure that’s true of the average law student; but, we’ve never been looking for the average law student. … We think those candidates will appreciate our efforts to put more money in their pockets as they come in the door rather than excessively spending on summer programs that many view as a waste of time.”

Quinn Emanuel shook up its approach to recruiting once before, foregoing recruiting students on campus at the same time as the competition in favor of holding receptions during the spring of students’ first years of law school.

Even with the summer slim-down, one aspect of Quinn Emanuel’s summer won’t be going away: the hike Quinn lawyers embark on in often exotic locations. This year, more than 125 lawyers will be hiking the Dolomites in Italy.

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2015/06/29/quinn-emanuel-to-scale-back-summer-associate-program/

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