The firm has a very liberal vacation policy. All attorneys are entitled to at least four weeks of fully paid vacation per year. All attorneys participate in a substantial pension plan established by the firm. The firm has a long-standing sabbatical program for attorneys who have become principals. Approximately once every five years, each attorney is entitled to a fully paid three-month sabbatical.
Attorneys can do whatever they please during their sabbatical.
Traditionally, most attorneys spend their sabbaticals traveling or teaching. Those attorneys who join the firm directly out of law school can plan on taking their first sabbatical approximately one year after becoming a principal. The firm overwhelmingly prefers to hire new associates from those law students who have clerked with the firm after their first or second year of law school. The summer clerkship program is viewed as an important opportunity for the firm and the student to evaluate each other. Accordingly, the firm attempts to expose summer associates to every phase of the firm's practice and their duties are not confined to research and writing.