Arent Fox is looking for highly qualified lawyers with a commitment to professional growth. Lateral hiring is essential to broadening our expertise, strengthening our service to existing clients and enhancing our prospects for new clients. We require strong writing skills and excellent academic credentials and seek candidates with character, sound judgment, and leadership potential.
Arent Fox knows that to become successful, lawyers need to develop strength in a broad range of competencies, including:
At Arent Fox, lawyers are offered the opportunity to develop and strengthen these qualities through training, mentoring, evaluation and advancement. We encourage lawyers to be actively involved in their own development and take advantage of resources and opportunities provided to achieve their professional goals.
Arent Fox offers many career-enriching opportunities, featuring our Stars program:
Arent Fox’s Stars Program promotes professional development and stellar achievement by addressing many aspects of legal education and reaching different audiences throughout the firm. Highlights of the Stars program:
Law Firm Literacy: Addresses topics related to the business of law firms, the nuts and bolts of managing a law practice and the art of surviving and thriving in a law firm. Programs include: Law Firm Economics 101, Nuances of Recording Time, and Partner Compensation.
Marketing/Client Development: Helps develop the skills, contacts and resources necessary to effectively market the firm’s services to new clients and to support and expand its existing client base. Programs include: Making Time for Marketing, Understanding Client Needs and Finding a Marketing Style that Works For You.
Practice Based Skills: Develops expertise within practice areas and develops firm-wide core skills. Firm-wide skills programming includes: Legal Writing Workshops & Clinics, Oral Communication Seminars and Coaching Sessions, Financial Seminars and Negotiations programs.
Other career-enriching opportunities that the firm offers include:
Attracting and retaining top talent in the legal field is a key to Arent Fox’s success. Our compensation philosophy rewards contributions to our clients and reflects the competitiveness of the legal marketplace. Our compensation package includes two components: base salary and bonus.
Annual salary increases and bonus distribution are weighted on individual performance, growth and development. Compensation programs vary by position. First year associates earn a base salary of $160,000 in DC, Los Angeles and New York. Associates are also eligible for productivity supplements, cash bonuses and merit-based salary increases. Judicial clerks receive a $20,000 signing bonus, and incoming first year associates who have passed the patent bar prior to joining the firm earn a $10,000 signing bonus.
Associates are hired with the expectation that they have the potential to advance to partnership. As a general rule, an associate is eligible for partnership eight years after graduation from law school and five years after joining Arent Fox.
Arent Fox offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package.
Health and insurance plans: Medical plans are offered through Blue Cross Blue Shield (Washington, DC) and Oxford (New York), dental insurance is offered through MetLife. Group term life and long-term disability insurance.
Financial savings: 401(k) plan, profit-sharing plan, and 529 College Savings Plan.
Leaves of absence: Short-term disability, parental leave, bereavement, military and jury duty. Arent Fox complies with all aspects of the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Voluntary programs: Supplemental life insurance (for employee, spouse and child), supplemental long-term disability, long-term care and pet insurance.
To be successful in your career, we believe you must also be successful in life. Arent Fox understands the need to balance a busy professional life with commitments outside of work. In addition to a full complement of employee benefits, we offer the following programs to help make working seem a little less like work:
Associates are expected to work at least 1,950 billable hours, 150 hours of which may be approved pro bono, firm representation or strategic planning hours.
Associates may work on a part-time basis with pre-approval. The part-time schedule will be based on the needs of the associate and Arent Fox and must meet certain hours requirements. Part-time associates receive the same insurance benefits and consideration for advancement, compensation increases (pro-rated), and bonuses (pro-rated) as full-time associates.
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