Associate Recruiting

Benefit from real-world experience and our collegial culture.

We provide associates with high-caliber, intensive training that builds real-world judgment and insight. Our associates have the chance to work on top-level engagements with impressive clients. Here, associates will take on significant responsibility under the mentorship of partners with years of experience and contribute on a wide range of matters across practices.

Committed to rendering services of the highest professional quality, we seek lawyers of exceptional ability, integrity and industry. We actively recruit candidates whose academic performance, energy, personality and character suggest that they possess the ability and desire to meet the challenges presented by a demanding practice and are prepared to develop rapidly and assume responsibility early.

And thanks to the firm's longstanding commitment to pro bono work, associates also have the opportunity to contribute to public service.

Our Summer Program An excellent opportunity. For you. And for us.

Actual Work

Our program includes work on real legal matters, not "make-work," and those problems often involve far more than library research. In recent years, this has involved assisting at depositions, court proceedings and closings.

Real Experience

In addition to expanding legal skills, participants have the opportunity to engage in a wide variety of client meetings, witness interviews, negotiation sessions and fact-gathering projects.

Extraordinary Culture

Participants benefit from our extraordinary culture. The collaborative and truly warm environment is valued by everyone at Hughes Hubbard. We stand out from other highly ranked firms because of it.

Highly Diverse

We focus on building a highly diverse team with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds. This makes us better equipped to deliver creative and effective solutions to our clients' legal issues. We welcome new perspectives and approaches.

Litigation Powerhouse

We were among an elite group of firms named to Law360’s inaugural list of “Litigation Powerhouses.” The winners “leveraged their deep legal talent to score remarkable wins for their clients over the past year,” according to Law360.

100% ranking on the 2016 and 2017 Corporate Equality Indexes

We received a perfect score on this national benchmarking survey and report on policies and practices related to LGBT workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

Named a Top 10 Firm in The American Lawyer's 2016 Summer Associates Survey

According to the rankings, we were one of only 13 firms to earn a 5 out of 5 in the category rating the firm overall as a good place to work. The rankings are based on reports from the firm's summer associates in five categories: the overall quality of the workplace; how interesting and "real" the work was; how training and guidance measured up; how often they interacted with partners and associates; and how accurately the firm portrayed itself.

Gold Standard Certification from WILEF

We received this award from the Women in Law Empowerment Forum for the sixth consecutive year, one of only 12 firms nationally to have consistently achieved this recognition since the program's inception in 2011.

# 1 on AmLaw’s pro bono list

We earned the top spot on The American Lawyer’s list of Big law firms for U.S. pro bono commitment. The firm was also named a “Law 360 Pro Bono Firm of the Year.”

Airfinance Journal “Deals of the Year”

Hughes Hubbard won ten Airfinance Journal “Deals of the Year” over the last four years including this year’s North American Deal of the Year and the “Regional Jet/turboprop Deal of the Year.”

On-Campus Interviews

This year, Hughes Hubbard expects to hire approximately 20 law students for our firm-wide 2018 summer program and approximately 20 associates to begin work in the fall of 2018.

We will interview at a number of law schools as well as job fairs throughout the country. We also welcome resumes from students at other law schools.

The majority of the interviewing is done during the fall. Candidates participating in on-campus interviews are interviewed by partners and associates at law schools across the country. Candidates are then invited to Hughes Hubbard to meet with four or five additional attorneys. We reimburse students for their travel expenses.

Recent events include:

Berkeley Law School – California
Brooklyn Law School – New York
Columbia Law School – New York
Cornell Law School Job Fair – New York
Duke University School of Law – Durham, North Carolina
Fordham Law School – New York
George Washington University Law School – Washington, DC
Georgetown University Law Center – Washington, DC
Harvard Law School – Boston, Massachusetts
Lavender Law Career Fair – Different locations yearly
Michigan Law School – Ann Arbor
National Black Law Students Association Job Fair (NEBLSA) – Different locations yearly
New York University School of Law – New York
Stanford Law School – California
University of Chicago Law School – Illinois
University of Pennsylvania Law School – Philadelphia
University of Virginia School of Law – Charlottesville

Recruiting Contacts We look forward to hearing from you.

New York, Miami, Jersey City, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Paris & Tokyo

Adrian Cockerill

One Battery Park Plaza

New York, New York 10004-1482

+1 212 837 6131

Washington, D.C.

Maria Marchioni

1775 I Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C., 20006-2401

+1 202 721 4601