Early Case Ownership: Litigation Training at Stoel Rives

Corey Day
Attorney, Litigation

Abstract

In this video, Corey Day, Associate in Litigation and Food & Beverage at Stoel Rives, shares how the firm empowers associates with substantive responsibilities early in their careers. Unlike peers at larger firms who may spend years on document review, Corey highlights how he was entrusted with arguing motions, taking depositions, and participating in arbitrations well before his fifth year of practice. His experience underscores Stoel Rives’ commitment to practical, hands-on training and accelerated professional development for junior attorneys.

Transcript

One of the things I very much appreciate about Stoel is the ability to kind of run with things, whether that be running with cases, having early responsibility early on in cases. But I have friends from law school who went to other firms, sometimes bigger firms, and they were doing doc review up until they were fifth, sixth, seventh year associates. At Stoel Rives, you're given responsibility early on.

Part of that coming from another firm, might have been a bit of coming from another firm, but I've still seen that with associates we have here. I was arguing motions in my third, fourth, fifth year, taking depositions, taking expert depositions, having a first arbitration, second term arbitration obviously, but all that before I hit my fifth year. And those are the kinds of things that you don't necessarily get from those other firms.