Careers

In addition to helping first-year associates grow their careers, Stoel Rives recognizes the tremendous contributions that an experienced lawyer with focused career objectives and good business development skills can make to our firm. Are you searching for a practice that’s better aligned with your interests, seeking to integrate a mature practice into our dynamic team, or relocating to one of our cities? In any of these cases, Stoel Rives is excited to offer you the opportunity to take your career to the next level.

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Are you looking for a firm that truly values the crucial support provided by paralegal and administrative staff? At Stoel Rives, we consider our staff an indispensable part of our firm’s success and reputation. With more than 450 administrative employees, our firm offers career opportunities in such areas as administration, finance, human resources, information technology, operations, library services, and marketing and business development.

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Looking for a taste of a real world legal career?

We have the program for you. Our summer program represents an important part of our hiring process, so expect to be immersed in our culture and in the reality of law practice at Stoel Rives. We expect summer associates to perform excellent work and to experience the reality of associate life at Stoel Rives. The work is real, relevant and challenging and will allow you to work alongside some of the best lawyers in their fields. Summer associates receive work assignments drawn from ongoing legal matters in which our lawyers and clients are actively involved. We also make every effort to see that you are invited to meetings, hearings, closings, depositions, trials, in-house CLEs and training programs. Your summer will be filled with challenging legal work, plus social and professional opportunities to interact with our attorneys. After a summer in one of our offices you will have a true sense of what life is like for Stoel Rives associates.

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Why Stoel Rives? The easy answer is our reputation for excellence and our long list of accomplishments. But there’s definitely more to it. We understand that deciding where you want to practice law and to develop professionally is highly personal. Rankings, awards and Fortune 500 clients address the what and the who of legal practice but not necessarily the why. Whether you have a passion for science, enjoy the challenge of oral argument, or seek the high stakes of complex merger negotiations, your next career choice should align with your personal values and career objectives.

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Lawyer development at Stoel Rives is essential to our ability to provide clients with excellent service. We are committed to the professional and practice development of each lawyer who joins the firm, to help them be successful in their careers at the firm. In addition to providing our lawyers with the training and tools for individual success, our professional development programs are more broadly geared to foster a firm culture of excellence, integrity, professionalism, and commitment to client service. Our clients are best served by highly functioning teams built upon these principles.

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