Each year, the firm invites a handful of summer associates to work alongside its attorneys and staff in a variety of cutting-edge, high-stakes litigation matters. Summer associates can expect to draft substantive motions, work directly with partners, attend hearings and depositions, and participate in strategy and client meetings. This means that summer associates have the opportunity to perform associate work, under the supervision of KVP attorneys. They are fully integrated into at least one active, ongoing case, which allows them to experience the intellectual and practical challenges of litigation while embedded with the case team, but will also work on other matters in order to meet other lawyers in the firm and experience different areas of litigation. In other words, KVP summer associates can expect to actually learn something over their summer.
Like our firm itself, KVP’s summer program is lean: we’d rather ensure an outstanding experience for a few summer associates than a mediocre experience for many. We typically hire six to eight law students who spend a minimum of eight weeks with us and a maximum of ten during their 2L summer.
Each summer associate has a partner and an associate mentor, attends various training sessions and speaker series, and receives a mid-summer and end-of-summer review. Consistent with our goal of delivering a real-life associate experience, summer associates are urged to attend the most exciting of the trials, hearings, or other events occurring over the summer. And of course, there is no shortage of opportunities to meet our lawyers and staff through firm social events.
Law Student Recruitment and On-Campus Interviews
Due to the small size of our summer program, we limit the number of schools at which we conduct on-campus interviews. 1L students should sign up to see us on-campus for upcoming summer employment at Harvard, Howard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, University of Michigan, University of Chicago, and Yale law schools. We will also consider applications from 1Ls submitted directly to us per the instructions below. Additionally, we participate in the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Diversity Career Fair.
Summer 2026 Applications
We will begin considering direct applications in April 2025. 1L students can submit their resume, transcript, and writing sample directly to AttorneyRecruiting@keker.com.