Opportunities and Application Information

Opportunities and Application Information

While our search for candidates is broad, our focus is narrow: hiring lawyers who thrive in a firm that emphasizes excellence and collegiality.

Cleary has developed a diverse, first-rate firm by recruiting in the U.S. and abroad, but without pre-conceived notions of what makes a first-rate lawyer. Instead, the common thread that ties together all our hires is talent.

Seeking Excellence and Creativity

We seek lawyers who are confident in their abilities and creative in their thinking. To find these attributes in a lawyer, we look for academically excellent candidates who are enthusiastic about practicing law in a challenging and dynamic international setting.

Lawyers come to us from many backgrounds, including judicial clerkships, government positions or other law firms. In fact, we take pride in the number of judicial clerks who join Cleary as associates:

• Roughly 160 of our lawyers have judicial clerkship experience, including as clerks with a U.S. District Court, U.S. Court of Appeals or the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Several Cleary lawyers clerked in the highest U.S. State courts, as well as foreign courts, including the European Court of Justice.
• New or returning associates who have completed one or more clerkships are entitled to a bonus.
• Cleary gives seniority credit for each year of any judicial clerkship completed and pays a monetary bonus to incoming or returning associates who complete one or more judicial clerkships.

Click here for open opportunities and to apply online.

Contact Us

Donna Harris
Director of Legal Recruiting, U.S.
Email: BayArea-Recruiting@cgsh.com

Bay Area
1841 Page Mill Rd, Suite 250
Palo Alto, CA 94304
T: +1 650 815 4100

San Francisco
650 California St, Suite 2000
San Francisco, CA 94108
T: +1 415 796 4400 

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Consistent with these goals, the firm prohibits any form of discrimination or harassment based on any category protected by law.