Keller Rohrback Summer Associates Program
Keller Rohrback's Summer Associate Program provides law students with meaningful, hands-on experience in plaintiffs' complex litigation. Summer associates work as part of active litigation teams, contributing to significant cases while receiving mentorship, training, and regular feedback from experienced attorneys.
Keller Rohrback 2027 Summer Associate Program
Seattle | Plaintiffs’ Complex Litigation
Keller Rohrback is accepting applications for its 2027 Summer Associate Program in Seattle, Washington. We expect to hire:
• Second-year law students through our 2L Summer Associate Program.
• One first-year law student through our 1L Diversity Fellowship.
• Additional first-year law students through our general 1L Summer Associate Program.
We seek candidates with excellent academic credentials, strong research and writing skills, sound judgment, demonstrated leadership, and a serious interest in plaintiffs’ complex litigation. Successful candidates will be intellectually curious, collaborative, and prepared to take responsibility for substantive work on significant cases.
The Summer Associate Experience
Summer associates are integrated into active litigation teams and work alongside partners and associates on substantive projects that contribute directly to ongoing cases.
Assignments may include:
• Researching novel legal and factual issues.
• Drafting motions, briefs, discovery requests, and other litigation materials.
• Analyzing documents, expert materials, and evidentiary records.
• Assisting with depositions, hearings, mediations, and trial preparation.
• Participating in case-strategy discussions and team meetings.
Each summer associate is paired with a supervising attorney and an associate mentor who provide guidance, regular feedback, and professional development support.
Plaintiffs’ Complex Litigation
Keller Rohrback’s Complex Litigation Group is a nationally recognized plaintiffs’ practice that prosecutes high-stakes civil litigation on behalf of individuals, classes, public entities, and institutional clients.
Our class action and multi-district practice includes consumer-protection, antitrust, ERISA, environmental, public-health, data-privacy, and product-liability litigation. We pursue sophisticated cases designed to hold corporations accountable, compensate those harmed by misconduct, and achieve meaningful real-world change.
2027 Summer Opportunities
1. 2L Summer Associate Positions
The 2L Summer Associate Program is one pathway to a full-time associate position with Keller Rohrback after graduation.
We expect to hire a small and highly selective 2L summer class. Some members of the class will be returning participants in Keller Rohrback’s 1L Summer Associate Program, and at least one position will be available to a 2L student who is new to the firm.
The 2L program requires a commitment of ten to twelve weeks. Start and end dates are flexible. Compensation is $2,300 per week.
At the end of the summer, 2L Summer Associates may receive offers to join Keller Rohrback as associates. Offer decisions are based on the quality of a summer associate’s work, judgment, professionalism, collaboration, and fit with the firm’s practice and values. Keller Rohrback strongly encourages both summer associates and current associates to pursue judicial clerkships after graduation or after joining the firm.
Application Schedule
• Application deadline: August 21, 2026.
• Decisions communicated by: September 8, 2026.
2. 1L Diversity Fellowship
Keller Rohrback’s 1L Diversity Fellowship is designed to expand access to meaningful experience in plaintiffs’ complex litigation and to support the development of a more diverse and inclusive legal profession.
In addition to Fellowship-specific mentorship and networking opportunities, the Fellow will participate fully in the Summer Associate Program, including substantive case assignments, training, mentoring, feedback, and firm programming.
Students who are attending Washington State law schools and come from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in the legal profession are encouraged to apply. We seek candidates who have made outstanding contributions to their law school or community and who have demonstrated leadership and a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The 1L Diversity Fellowship program requires a commitment of ten to twelve weeks. Start and end dates are flexible. Compensation is $2,100 per week.
The Fellowship is a summer position and does not guarantee an offer to return for a second summer. Strong 1L Diversity Fellows may receive offers to return for their 2L summer. Return offers are based on firm needs, quality of work, judgment, professionalism, collaboration, and fit with the firm’s practice and values.
Application Schedule
• Application deadline: January 8, 2027.
• Decisions communicated by: January 22, 2027.
3. 1L Summer Associate Positions
Keller Rohrback’s 1L Summer Associate Program is designed to introduce law students to the day-to-day practice of plaintiffs' complex litigation.
The 1L program requires a commitment of ten to twelve weeks. Start and end dates are flexible. Compensation is $2,100 per week.
The 1L program offers summer positions; however, return offers are not guaranteed. Strong 1L summer associates may receive offers to return for their 2L summer. Return offers are based on firm needs, quality of work, judgment, professionalism, collaboration, and fit with the firm’s practice and values.
Application Schedule
• Application deadline: January 8, 2027.
• Decisions communicated by: January 22, 2027.
Application Instructions
Applicants for any of the three positions should submit a single PDF to [email protected] containing:
• A cover letter of no more than 500 words.
• A one-page résumé.
• A law school transcript.
• A writing sample, preferably 5–10 pages.
• And a list of references.
The cover letter should identify the position for which the applicant is applying:
• 2L Summer Associate.
• 1L Diversity Fellowship.
• 1L Summer Associate.
Applicants for the 1L Diversity Fellowship will automatically be considered for a general 1L Summer Associate position and need not submit a separate application.