Summer season affiliate packages are nonetheless underway at Biglaw corporations throughout the nation, however quickly, for many who haven’t already been precruited, early recruitment interviews will start for subsequent yr’s keen crop of would-be summer time associates. With present summers itching to obtain their gives, what higher time to launch Vault’s intently watched rankings for the very best summer time affiliate packages?
Scorching on the heels of Vault’s rankings of essentially the most prestigious legislation corporations and the legislation corporations with the very best quality of life comes the profession web site’s rating of the very best summer time affiliate packages in Biglaw. Junior associates (first- by means of third-year attorneys) who summered at their present corporations had been requested to rank their experiences on how a lot enjoyable this system was and the way nicely it ready them for all times on the agency by means of six completely different classes (legal professional interactions, substantive assignments, coaching and mentoring, preparation for affiliate life, high quality of occasions, and satisfaction with firm-sponsored social alternatives and social interactions). From these scores, Vault ranked the very best summer time affiliate packages in three classes: Legal professional Interactions, Profession Growth, and Social Experiences. It shouldn’t come as a shock that lots of the corporations that made the Prime 10 checklist for having the very best quality of life made the Prime 10 for having the very best summer time affiliate program.
There was as soon as once more an enormous quantity of motion within the Prime 10 this yr. Which corporations made the reduce? With none additional ado, listed below are the Prime 10 Corporations With the Greatest Summer season Affiliate Packages based mostly on Vault’s Annual Affiliate Survey for 2026:
1. O’Melveny & Myers (no change)
2. Bracewell (no change)
3. Morgan Lewis & Bockius (no change)
4. Clifford Probability (up from #6)
5. Benesch (up from #10)
6. McDermott Will & Emery (up from #9)
7. Pillsbury (up from #23)
8. Eversheds Sutherland (up from #18)
9. Vedder Value (unranked)
10. Mayer Brown (up from #39)
O’Melveny, Bracewell, Morgan Lewis, Clifford Probability US, McDermott, Eversheds, and Mayer Brown every made appearances within the Prime 10 for corporations with the very best quality of life. Let’s give these corporations a spherical of applause for conserving their attorneys blissful from their days as summers by means of their days as junior associates.
Listed here are the Prime 3 Greatest Summer season Packages for Legal professional Interactions:
- O’Melveny & Myers
- Bracewell
- Clifford Probability US
Listed here are the Prime 3 Greatest Summer season Packages for Profession Growth:
- O’Melveny & Myers
- Morgan Lewis & Bockius
- Benesch
Listed here are the Prime 3 Greatest Summer season Packages for Social Experiences:
- Bracewell
- O’Melveny & Myers
- McDermott Will & Emery
Congratulations to all 50 of the Biglaw corporations that made the most recent version of the Vault Greatest Summer season Affiliate Program rankings — and a good larger congratulations to O’Melveny for popping out on prime in one more rating. How did your agency do? E-mail us, textual content us at (646) 820-8477, or tweet us @atlblog to tell us.
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Regulation, the place she’s labored since 2011. She’d love to listen to from you, so please be at liberty to e mail her with any suggestions, questions, feedback, or critiques. You possibly can observe her on Bluesky, X/Twitter, and Threads, or join together with her on LinkedIn.
