Our Summer Associate Program is designed to expose law students to the field of intellectual property law and to provide an accurate idea of an associate's work at the firm. The 10-week summer program stresses professionalism, training, and development. Last year, our summer associates had the opportunity to engage in a diverse mix of work, including: attending trials, appellate and motion hearings, depositions, and client meetings; researching and writing on various patent, trademark, copyright, procedural, and evidentiary issues; prosecuting patent and trademark applications; writing speeches and articles; and presenting reviews of recent Federal Circuit decisions. Summer Associates have outstanding technical backgrounds in engineering and in the biological sciences, and are typically in the top 25% of their law school class.

Diversity
Finnegan rates as one of the nation’s top law firms with respect to diversity.

The firm has developed a reputation as a leader in the field of IP law. We are consistently ranked as a top law firm by respected U.S. and international publications. The American Lawyer named Finnegan as Intellectual Property Litigation Department of the Year for 2012. Managing Intellectual Property once again named Finnegan the “Full Service U.S. IP Firm of the Year” and Chambers USA ranks us #1 tier for IP firms.

In this year’s Vault survey we ranked in the Top 20 nationally in several categories including but not limited to: Intellectual Property Practice, Clean Tech/Renewable Energy Practice, IP Litigation, and Best Overall Summer Associate Program.

For more information on the culture, environment, and opportunities at our firm, you may wish to read our profile on www.chambersandpartners.com.

Diversity Scholarship
The Finnegan Diversity Scholarship is open to application by persons of minority heritage attending top law schools around the nation. Our Finnegan scholars are:

2003-2004 - Panyin Hughes, Georgetown University (Washington)
2004-2005 - Wendy Herby, University of Washington (Palo Alto)
2005-2006 - Melissa Wasserman, New York University (Washington)
2006-2007 - Jae Park, Santa Clara University (Palo Alto)
2007-2008 - Roberto Concepción, Columbia Law School (Washington) 
                        Anita Choi, University of Pennsylvania (Palo Alto)
2008-2009 - Brittany Blueitt, Harvard Law School (Washington)
2009-2010 - Samhitha Muralidhar, George Washington University (Washington)
2010-2011 - Emmanuel Azih, University of Georgia (Atlanta)
2011-2012 - Flora Amwayi, Harvard Law School (Washington) 
                       Wanli Tang, Duke Law School (Washington)

Each scholar is given $15,000 per year for tuition and other law school fees. To apply, please send us your completed application form to diversityscholarship@finnegan.com by March 1, 2012. Application forms are available in Microsoft Word and PDF format.