2025 Charlotte 1L Power of Partnership Program

at  KL Gates

JOB DESCRIPTION

At K&L Gates, we are looking for smart, imaginative and hard-working people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas to join us. Perhaps our search for talented visionaries and your search for important and impactful work lead to the same place.
K&L Gates is looking forward to hosting our 2025 1L Power of Partnership Program in Charlotte.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

K&L Gates created the Power of Partnership Program in 2018 to offer outstanding learning experiences for law students while also increasing engagement with our clients. This program offers selected 1L students the unique opportunity to work for part of the summer in a K&L Gates office as a summer associate and part of the summer in-house with the legal team of a corporate client of the firm.
In addition to a paid 1L summer associate position, our Power of Partnership Program participant will be eligible to earn an academic bonus of up to $50,000.

If earned, the academic bonus will be paid in three installments (less applicable deductions):

• A $10,000 payment upon the successful completion of the full K&L Gates 2025 Summer Program
• A $20,000 payment if you spend a minimum of eight weeks with the firm during the 2026 Summer Program, do not spend time working for another law firm during the summer, and receive and accept an offer of full-time employment with K&L Gates
• A $20,000 payment upon joining the firm as a full-time first year associate; this payment will be included in your first paycheck

Please refer the Job description for details