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Debevoise Professional Development
At Debevoise, we help you build the best possible foundation for your career in the law. We believe that lawyers develop best through a combination of on-the-job work experience and formal legal education programs. Our curriculum today includes an array of 360 courses offered annually to educate you at every stage of your career. Orientation and introductory programs provide you with “frameworks and tools” for understanding the legal, business, ethical and practical issues and problems you are likely to encounter in your first years of practice. Milestone programs support you as you grow into more senior supervisory and leadership roles. Advanced programs help you keep abreast of developments in your area of practice and continue to hone your skills and expertise.
A Focused Approach to Professional Development
Our education programs focus on the core technical, management and leadership skills that you need to develop to become effective at both basic and advanced levels of practice. The core skills are outlined in a Development Model which provides a compass for our legal education curriculum as well as a common vocabulary for associates and senior lawyers to use in mentoring and feedback discussions. The Development Model was created internally by a team of senior partners and professional development staff who lead the firm’s talent initiatives and ensure our systematic and comprehensive approach to lawyer development.
Introductory Programs
You will participate in approximately 60 hours of formal training over your first two years of practice. Our introductory programs provide you with the technical grounding and skills to help get you off to a fast start in legal practice.
- Each fall we run a lawyering orientation to introduce you to the firm and the practice of law at Debevoise. Topics include the firm’s culture, basic lawyering skills, diversity and inclusion at Debevoise, legal ethics, and how to establish and maintain ethical and effective relationships with clients.
- New corporate and tax associates attend a full-time, one-week program led by partners and other senior lawyers covering the drafting and negotiation of acquisition documents and the art of shepherding a transaction from initial negotiations through closing. Our curriculum continues for second-year associates with a series of sessions designed to convey practical, substantive information that every associate should know about various corporate practice topics.
- New litigation associates attend an intensive program soon after their arrival, with participatory sessions on the lifecycle of a litigation matter, information management, research and fact development, developing a core theory of a case, pre-trial discovery and lawyer-client privilege, pleadings and an introduction to balance sheets for litigators. In addition, the litigation department conducts writing workshops, a series to introduce new litigators to core areas of the firm's litigation practice and a litigation skills seminar for second-year associates.
Milestone Programs
Our milestone programs help you navigate important transitions in your career.
- The mid-level program focuses on skills critical for third-year associates who are taking on greater responsibility for delegating and supervising, advising clients, understanding law firm economics and managing their career horizons.
- A senior associate leadership program for fifth-year associates explores leadership behaviors and skills and common challenges that arise in managing projects in a team-based practice.
- A new partner orientation program covers partners’ roles and responsibilities, including firm governance principles, economics and risk management; personal practice planning; coaching and mentoring associates.
Advanced Programs
Throughout the year the firm’s departments and individual practice groups conduct focused advanced training programs designed to help you enhance your substantive knowledge (of the law and of the industries in which our clients do business), stay ahead of the curve and refine your technical skills.
Many of our training programs are recorded and available in an online library, for the convenience of “just-in-time” or “refresher” training. We publish a monthly professional development newsletter that, among other things, publicizes upcoming training programs and includes articles and references to source material on a topic of current interest.
Debevoise is an accredited provider of continuing legal education programs for its lawyers in the State of New York. As a result, lawyers admitted to the New York bar can satisfy most, if not all, of their mandatory CLE requirements by attending in-house programs. Our lawyers also participate in outside CLE programs, including those sponsored by NITA, the City Bar Center for CLE, the Practising Law Institute (PLI) and ALI-ABA, among others.
Advisors
All corporate and tax associates are assigned an associate and a partner advisor when they arrive at the firm. For first-year associates, the primary advising relationship is with an associate advisor. Second- through fourth-year associates participate in a formal advising program with their partner advisor. This formal program includes an orientation session and regular individual and confidential meetings about career and practice development issues with the partner advisor where the agenda is set primarily by the associate.
Litigation associates in the firm's New York office are assigned to advising groups with partners, counsel and associates at all levels of seniority. The advising groups host discussion meetings on professional development topics and enjoy social activities.
After the fourth year, the firm expects that most associates will have formed one or more advising relationships - through the formal program and/or through work assignments - so that at this stage of associates' careers the advising they require can be more informal.
The firm monitors the formal advising relationships and, if necessary, changes advising assignments to ensure that associates have at least one active advising relationship available to them.
Support Technology
Debevoise provides all of its lawyers with state-of-the-art computer hardware. Lawyers in all offices worldwide are connected through a wide-area network. They also have desktop access to fax transmissions, the firm's Intranet, certain clients' Extranets and to the Internet through dedicated T-1 and fractional T-3 lines. Software support includes e-mail, MS Word word processing, Excel spreadsheet and Power Point presentation applications and a variety of online database research tools (Lexis, Westlaw, and assorted CD-ROM databases). Remote access software and related technical support enable lawyers to reach the firm's central network from home or while traveling. Debevoise offers all lawyers a technology budget which can be used to buy a personal laptop. The firm also maintains a large pool of lightweight notebook PCs for travel and other remote uses.
Experiencing other Debevoise Locations
We encourage our associates to consider a posting - generally for two to three years - to another Debevoise office at some point in their careers. In addition, associates based in New York often have the opportunity to spend shorter periods of time at an office abroad - typically two to four months - to work on particular projects or to be seconded to non-U.S. law firms or clients with whom we have long-standing relationships. As we grow globally, these opportunities for our associates to experience different Debevoise offices are increasingly important to our ability to operate as a single firm and maintain an integrated approach to practicing law.
Career path
Partnership Consideration
An associate is generally considered for partnership approximately eight years after graduation from law school. Each associate's candidacy is first discussed by the department within which the associate has worked, and then may be considered by the full partnership. Partnership decisions are made only after a series of meetings at which the candidates are considered in depth by the full partnership.
Counsel Program
A number of senior associates have been promoted to Counsel or International Counsel status. There are currently 64 senior lawyers in our counsel program.
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"Debevoise has an excellent mentoring and training system. Many people -- including partners -- spend a substantial amount of time and thought to analyze our careers as they develop, in an effort to help us maximize our potential."
Associate, Class of 2000
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