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1. Provide summer associates with a realistic experience as a young attorney
in a small law firm with a limited but varied practice.
2. Provide summer associates with as many different types of experiences
as possible, including various stages of litigation in state, federal,
trial and appellate courts and, to a more limited extent, experience in
non-litigation matters.
3. Provide summer associates not only with the opportunity to experience
the technical aspects of the law but also stress the importance of practicing
law with integrity and using their legal skills to make a difference in
the community.
4. Provide summer associates the opportunity to work with most, preferably
all, attorneys, paralegals and administrative assistants in the office.
5. Provide summer associates with prompt feedback on all significant assignments.
6. Expect summer associates to be diligent, enthusiastic and innovative
as a member of the team serving the firm's clients.
7. Expect summer associates to have, or be able to quickly acquire, the
core technology competency skills required of other attorneys, such as
proficiency in doing both book-based and computer-assisted legal research
and basic word processing functions.
8. Extend offers of employment, when positions become available, to those
individuals who are positively evaluated. Although positions open less
frequently than in larger firms and organizations, EGHS is committed to
giving former summer associates, with favorable evaluations, priority
when an opening does become available.
9. Assist summer associates in making contacts with other members of the
legal community, such as other lawyers and judges, for the purpose of
both demonstrating the importance of knowing others in the profession
and, if necessary, aiding the associate in obtaining permanent employment.
10. Expect summer associates to follow the firm's Statement of Principles.
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