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What is the typical class size of Bricker & Eckler’s summer associate program?
Class size varies, but the number of summer associates over the past 10 years has averaged between six and eight people each summer.
What is the proportion of 1L and 2L students?
Over the past 10 years, summer associate classes have contained an average of 77 percent 2L students and 23 percent 1L students.
What are the percentages of offers and acceptances at the conclusion of the summer?
Over the past 10 years, 90 percent of Bricker & Eckler’s summer associates received offers at the conclusion of their summer associateship—89
percent of those offers were accepted.
How does Bricker & Eckler’s diversity measure against other firms?
Bricker & Eckler has a longstanding commitment to diversity. The late John Eckler, the firm's first associate and longtime firm leader, was Branch Rickey's son-in-law. Mr. Rickey is most famous for giving Jackie Robinson the opportunity in 1947 to pursue a career in major league baseball. Just as Mr. Rickey brought Jackie Robinson into the Brooklyn Dodgers to make major league baseball more representative of its audience, our firm has worked hard to diversify our professional staff so that we mirror the communities we serve.
In fact, Bricker & Eckler was the first Columbus, Ohio majority law firm to hire an African-American attorney and award partnership to an African-American male and female. Almost eight percent of the firm's partners are minorities and over 20 percent of the firm's partners are females. In addition, one of our partners recently became the first African-American to be elected as chairman of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association.
At Bricker & Eckler, we perpetuate the cycle of diversity by electing women and minorities to leadership positions so that the firm, from top to bottom, reflects the communities we serve.
What is the billable hour requirement?
The summer associates do not have a billable hour requirement. Unless part-time, partnership track associates generally have a yearly billable hour
target.
Can summer associates split their summer between two firms?
Because the firm has historically given offers to approximately 90% of its summer associates, we strongly prefer
to have summer associates for the entire summer so that we can evaluate the summer associate and the summer associate
can fully evaluate the firm. However, summer
splits will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Are judicial clerkship opportunities encouraged?
Yes. The firm will consider allowing summer associates given offers of full-time employment to defer for a year in
order to pursue most judicial clerkships.
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