Closing Date: 31st August, 2025
Description:
Thank you for your interest in Holland & Hart! This opportunity is with Holland & Hart's Las Vegas office. We are seeking candidates who are interested in the Commercial Litigation Practice Group.Holland & Hart invites second-year law students to apply to our 2026 Summer Program. Ideal candidates will have strong academic performance records and personal qualities that align with our firm's core values: integrity; excellence; innovation; teamwork; our commitment to one another; our diverse work force; our communities, and; living full lives.
Summer clerks receive substantive research and writing assignments and participate in a variety of legal projects. The summer clerk experience includes legal and practical skills training programs, work assignment supervision, dedicated mentorship, and opportunities to work on pro bono matters and to give back to our communities. In addition to real work experience, the summer program offers a variety of social, networking, and community activities that are designed to get to know the members of your summer class and colleagues throughout the firm.
Hiring criteria:
Holland & Hart seeks second-year (2L) students who bring a balance of strong academic performance, intellectual capability, and effective interpersonal skills. We look for well-rounded individuals who display motivation, maturity, creativity, and independence. Participation in mock trial, moot court or on a journal is highly preferred.
Required Materials
Please be prepared to submit your resume, unofficial law school transcript, and cover letter. Second-year law student summer clerks are hired based on the needs of practice groups as well as those of each of the offices and the firm in its entirety. In your cover letter, please specify the office in which you are interested as well as your practice area(s) of interest.
About Holland & Hart:
Holland & Hart is known for fostering an intentional culture that prioritizes integrity and a passion for ongoing learning and collaboration. We offer sophisticated, challenging projects and diverse, innovating clients.
Holland & Hart is ranked as one of Vault's “Best Law Firms in the Mountain States.”
Our core values—integrity, excellence, innovation, teamwork, our commitment to one another, our diverse workforce, our communities, and living full lives—influence all aspects of Holland & Hart's culture. Holland & Hart attracts those who love what they do at work as much as they love what they do on the weekend. We intentionally create opportunities for attorneys to seek balance in work and in life through longstanding programs including sabbaticals, service opportunities through the Holland & Hart Foundation, team retreats, and flexible-hour, remote, and hybrid work arrangements so they can be in the moment at their job, with their families, or when pursuing personal interests.
Holland & Hart is a full-service law firm with more than 500 lawyers in 14 offices. Throughout the Mountain West, from coast to coast and beyond, Holland & Hart provides clients with astute legal counsel from a vantage like no other. For more information, visit hollandhart.com.
Holland & Hart is an equal opportunity employer.
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The firm also gathers data regarding veteran status and LGBTQ+, both of which are not required for EEO-1 reporting purposes, however, data related to LGBTQ+ data is requested as part of other surveys or questionnaires we receive. Your decision to provide the information is also entirely voluntary, and your candidacy will not be affected by your decision to participate or not.
