Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr wants its recruits to know that Wilmer lawyers are real people, too.
This month, the firm launched a series of associate blogs, written by four associates, each from a different office. D.C.-based securities associate Kevin Chambers writes of his “Big Sky Adventure” on a family vacation in Montana. Litigation associate Anne McLaughlin writes from the Boston office that she’s hoping to improve her French. New York-based Ross Firsenbaum blogs from Rome, where he’s taking a vacation from Wilmer’s litigation department. Transactional associate Julie Smolinski tells of the beautiful beaches just an hour’s drive from her office in Palo Alto, Calif.
Wilmer debuted the associate blogs internally earlier this summer, but took them public this month. The firm plans to continue them through the end of the fall recruiting season. They are meant to provide a glimpse into each associate’s life both inside and outside of work. Heather Hayes, Wilmer’s legal personnel and recruiting communications manager, says recruits “want to have a good sense of what might their life be like were they to join us.” She says summer associates and other entry-level recruits often complain that it’s tough to distinguish one big firm from another. Hayes says the new blogs will hopefully help “personalize” Wilmer.
Hayes asks each associate to blog at least one 200- to 500-word entry a week. She says feedback within the firm is so far positive.
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