Where Ambition Meets Excellence
At Latham & Watkins, you’ll apply your talent and drive to the most challenging and complex matters making headlines worldwide.
With our unmatched capabilities, vast scale, and integrated global platform, you will work with the absolute best-in-class lawyers across markets, practices, and industries. You’ll achieve success through collaboration, taking initiative and providing input at all levels.
Our open-door policy ensures you can always seek guidance and expertise whenever you need it. And our upwards and downwards review process fosters accountability while reinforcing our collegial culture.
Honesty and transparency are among the hallmarks of our firm. The firm’s Associates Committee, consisting of an equal number of associates and partners, manages associate reviews, bonuses, and promotion recommendations, fostering a level of transparency unmatched by other firms. This committee is a cornerstone of our culture, offering associates meaningful influence over their career paths and a significant voice in firm leadership.
Empowered and involved, at Latham you have the freedom to pursue your vision and become a market leader. If you aspire to be the best and seek a firm that invests in your future, this is where you belong.
New York
The Financial Regulatory and Derivatives practice groups of the NY office is seeking a highly qualified mid-level associate with a minimum of three years of experience covering a mix of transactional commodities, futures and derivatives matters to join our 4th to 6th year associate class.
Boston, Century City
Data and Technology Transactions Practice is seeking a highly qualified associate with a minimum of three years of experience to join our 4th to 6th year associate class.
Austin, San Francisco, Silicon Valley
The Emerging Companies & Growth Practice is seeking a highly qualified associate with a minimum of two years of experience in emerging growth companies, public companies, and/or capital markets to join our 3rd to 5th year associate class.
Washington, D.C.
The Washington, D.C. office seeks an experienced FDA regulatory associate to join our established Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice Group. The ideal candidate has a minimum of two years of experience advising clients in FDA regulatory matters, including transactional matters involving FDA-regulated entities.
New York
The Corporate Department of the New York office seeks a skilled and highly qualified corporate associate with at least three years of life sciences licensing experience.
San Francisco, Silicon Valley
The Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice seeks an associate with a minimum of four years of experience advising companies operating in the digital health space, including on healthcare regulatory, data protection, and AI-related matters.
New York, Boston, Chicago, Houston, San Diego, Washington, D.C.
The Investment Funds Practice is seeking to add highly qualified associates with a minimum of three years of experience in private equity fund formation and related fund operational matters.
Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York
The Investment Funds Regulatory Practice is seeking a highly qualified associate candidate with at least three years of relevant investment management experience. Candidates should be familiar with the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the Investment Company Act of 1940. Private equity and hedge fund formation experience is also helpful.
Chicago
The Mergers & Acquisitions Practice is seeking a highly qualified associate with a minimum of two full years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, specifically company representation and strategic acquisitions, to join our 3rd through 6th year associate class.
Austin, Boston, Century City, Houston, Orange County, Washington, D.C.
The Mergers & Acquisitions/Private Equity Practice is seeking a highly qualified associate with a minimum of two years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and/or private equity to join our 3rd through 5th year associate class.
Century City
The Mergers & Acquisitions/Private Equity Practice is seeking a highly qualified associate with a minimum of five years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and/or private equity to join our associate class.
San Francisco, Silicon Valley
We are seeking a highly qualified associate with a minimum of two years of privacy experience to join our 3rd to 5th year associate class.
Houston
The Houston office seeks top-quality attorneys with a minimum of one year of experience working on debt finance transactions, including syndicated credit facilities, leverage loans, and revolving credit facilities. Experience with energy-related transactions will be viewed as a positive but is not required.
Century City, Chicago, New York, Orange County, San Diego
The Latham Banking Practice is seeking associates with a minimum of two years of private credit, acquisition finance or leveraged finance experience to join our cutting edge and constantly growing team. Our clients are arrangers and direct lenders. This is a high growth practice with a supportive, collegial culture that continues to expand every year.
Washington, D.C.
The Energy Regulatory and Markets Group (within the Project Development & Finance Practice) of the Washington, D.C. office is seeking a highly qualified associate with a minimum of three years of federal energy regulatory experience, including experience practicing before FERC with respect to power and/or natural gas, at a national or international firm to join our associate class.
Washington, D.C.
The Latham Private Equity Finance Practice is seeking associates with a minimum of two years of fund finance experience to join our cutting edge and constantly growing team.
New York, Washington, D.C.
The Latin America Practice is seeking a highly qualified associate with a minimum of two years of experience to join our 3rd to 5th year associate class. The ideal candidate would have a combination of project finance and M&A experience. Spanish and/or Portuguese fluency is preferred.
Boston, Century City, Chicago, New York, San Diego, Washington, D.C.
The Latham Private Equity Finance Practice is seeking mid-level associates with a minimum of one year of borrower-side private credit, acquisition finance, or leveraged finance experience to join the 2nd, 3rd or 4th year class of our cutting edge and constantly growing team.
Boston, Century City, Chicago, New York, San Diego, Washington, D.C.
The Latham Private Equity Finance Practice is seeking senior associates with a minimum of four years of borrower-side private credit, acquisition finance, or leveraged finance experience to join our cutting edge and constantly growing team.
Houston, New York, San Diego
The Project Development & Finance Practice is seeking a highly qualified mid-level associate with a minimum of two years of experience, preferably including experience with project development and/or finance at a large national or international firm to join our 3rd to 4th year associate class.
Houston, New York, San Diego
The Project Development & Finance Practice is seeking a highly qualified senior associate with a minimum of four years of experience, preferably including experience with project development and/or finance at a large national or international firm.
New York
The Finance Department of the New York office is seeking an associate with a minimum of two years of experience in financial restructuring to join our 3rd to 4th year associate class.
Austin, Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Washington D.C.
The Litigation & Trial Department seeks a skilled and highly qualified associate with a minimum of three years of patent litigation experience to join its rapidly expanding practice.
Century City, Chicago, New York, San Francisco
The Structured Finance Practice is seeking highly qualified associates with a minimum two years of experience in structured finance transactions and securitizations. The practice group is recognized for its work on complex and cutting-edge structured finance transactions, development of innovative structures, and first-time securitizations of new asset classes.
New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C.
Our International Visiting Associate Program provides a select number of visiting lawyers the opportunity to work with Latham’s award-winning Latin America Practice as they help clients navigate some of the largest and most sophisticated business transactions and disputes in the region.
Austin, Century City, Chicago, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Washington, D.C.
Latham’s Global Antitrust and Competition Practice seeks a skilled and highly qualified associate with a minimum of two years of experience in antitrust litigation and/or merger control to join its rapidly expanding practice.
Century City, San Diego, San Francisco
Latham’s Global Antitrust and Competition Practice seeks a skilled and highly qualified associate with a minimum of two years of experience in antitrust litigation and/or merger control to join its rapidly expanding practice.
Century City, Chicago, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Washington, D.C.
The Litigation Department is seeking an associate with a minimum of two years of complex commercial litigation experience to join our 3rd to 6th year associate class.
San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Washington, D.C., New York
Latham’s market-leading Copyright Practice is seeking an associate with a minimum of three years of experience to join our team. We work with a range of clients — from startups to the world’s leading technology companies — on matters that run the gamut from providing strategic counsel to technology and media companies to litigating headline-grabbing music-industry and infringement claims, including the recent wave of cutting-edge cases challenging generative AI technology.
San Francisco, Washington, D.C., New York
The Privacy & Cyber Practice is seeking an associate with a minimum of three years of experience to join our group. Our global team represents leading clients across industries and of all sizes to help them through complex data privacy and security issues in high-profile and cutting-edge litigation, regulatory, and counseling matters
New York, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Washington, D.C.
The Litigation Department is seeking an associate with a minimum of two years of securities litigation experience to join our 3rd to 5th year associate class.
Washington, D.C., New York
Candidate should have experience with renewable energy tax credits, including financings and M&A pertaining to wind energy, solar energy projects, carbon capture and sequestration, and other major energy transition projects.
Century City, New York, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Washington, D.C.
The Tax Department is seeking an associate with a minimum of two years of benefits & compensation experience.
Boston, Century City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley
The Latham Tax Department is conducting a national search for attorneys with a minimum of five years of executive compensation and employee benefits experience.
Century City, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York
The Executive Compensation, Employment & Benefits Practice is seeking an employment associate with a minimum of three years of broad-based employment counseling experience to join our team.
Century City
The Tax Department of the Century City office is seeking an associate with a minimum of one year of transactional tax experience to join our 2nd to 5th year associate class.