2026, Summer Associate, New York

The Role: Summer Associate

Location: New York, New York

The Firm

Clyde & Co is full of exciting opportunities to take on new challenges and realize your potential. Thrive in a team where you feel heard and you belong, working with supportive, collaborative and talented colleagues. Develop your experience and career with a stimulating variety of work, at a firm with a portfolio of high profile, global clients. Learn from some of the most respected lawyers in their field.

The Team

It’s an exciting time to join our firm, we’re on a journey of transformation that will set us up for an even brighter future. We’re a fast-growing, leading global firm that works together as one to achieve our ambition.

Clyde & Co's New York team is one of the largest insurance focused litigation groups in the US and includes many of the sector's leading litigators.

Our New York lawyers represent many of the world's leading domestic and international insurers and reinsurers in their most complex, high value matters.

Our New York office works with sectors that move our connected world, in particular playing a major role in the aviation and marine sectors. Our lawyers have advised on virtually every major high stakes aviation and aerospace matter and our marine team is part of the largest global marine practice in the world.

Handling complex business disputes in state and federal courts throughout the US, our New York team represents clients in a wide variety of commercial disputes and before reinsurance arbitration panels such as AAA, ICDR, ICC and others. The New York office also has a strong focus on Bermuda-form arbitrations.

Our New York attorneys come from leading firms, drawn by the opportunity to represent world class companies without the conflict issues and high-cost structures that beset many large US firms. By focusing on core sectors and services, this has helped attract some of the most talented insurance coverage and corporate attorneys in the US, as well as leading litigators representing corporations.

Clyde & Co is one of the largest international law firms in the US. With 15 offices across the country, we are well-placed to help clients succeed in a volatile world in which managing risk requires experience across a range of business areas and economies.

The Program

Our program is designed to provide you with a realistic view of what it’s like to be an attorney in our New York office. Throughout the course of the summer, you’ll have the opportunity to work on meaningful work assignments, participate in training and development programs, and observe the law in practice. As a summer associate, you will work with our attorneys on a variety of substantive projects that involve tasks like legal research, analysis and drafting for ongoing client matters.

Clyde & Co’s summer program will equip you with the skills and legal knowledge needed to become a successful attorney. Our legal skills curriculum includes topics like legal research and writing; negotiations; and other practice specific skills. Our practice group seminars will enable you to learn about our areas of practice and hopefully discover your own unique interests along the way. We strive to offer you as much hands-on experience as possible. Summer associates are invited to attend depositions, court appearances, and other professional events.

We recognize the critical role mentorship plays in fostering your professional and personal development. From day one, you will be assigned a contact attorney who will provide guidance and support to help you thrive at Clyde & Co. As a summer associate, you will receive continuous and individualized feedback from our attorneys regarding your work assignments. We also want to hear from you – we encourage you to share feedback with us so we can make your summer at Clyde & Co an exceptional one.

Our social and networking opportunities ensure you are meeting and building relationships with other members of the firm. We are known for our entrepreneurialism and believe in giving our people the room to develop in their chosen field.

Eligibility

The expectations and standards are high, and you’ll be working at pace and with agility to deliver your best. If you’re a self-starter with a growth mindset, here you can play a big part in a winning team.

We're looking for:

Belonging at Clyde & Co

We recognize creating a positive culture is vital to the success of our business. It is crucial our people feel happy, respected, and able to be their whole selves at work. Having a workforce that brings a variety of backgrounds and experiences will help us harness the power of different perspectives to better innovate, problem solve, and drive change.

We are proud to have achieved Mansfield Rule 6.0 certification in the US.

Summer Associate Scholarship:

Clyde & Co is proud to offer the Summer Associate Scholarship, the goal of which is to support students who bring a unique perspective to Clyde & Co based on their life experience, resilience and cultural understanding.

When you work with us, you’ll join a team of 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide. Our drive for success, our pursuit of excellence and our aim to do our best for our clients and each other, have fuelled our growth for over 90 years.

We welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity. Let us know if you need us to make adjustments or changes to the interview process to help you best demonstrate your suitability for the role. We will do our best to accommodate your request. If you wish to discuss anything regarding the interview process, please let your recruitment contact know ahead of your interview. Find out more about the interview process and examples of adjustments we can put in place.

Please take a moment to read our privacy notice. This describes what personal information Clyde & Co may hold about you and how we use it, your rights and how to contact us. If you are submitting a candidate as a recruitment agency partner, it is an essential requirement and your responsibility to ensure that candidates have authorised the application and are aware of this privacy notice.

We will not accept agency submissions unless the agency has specifically instructed by a member of the recruitment team.

This is the job description as constituted at present; however, Clyde & Co reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.

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