Let's just tell it like it is: our summer program ROCKS! Our summer program is designed to give you an accurate idea of what it is like to be a Q&B lawyer (plus a lot of free lunches). Our summer program means that you will be given a healthy variety of real work assignments for real clients (see Real Work Experiences ). And you will have a chance to "try on" as many practice areas as you want during your summer with us. If you're already interested in a specific practice area, we will do everything we can to make sure you work with firm lawyers on projects in that area.

Here is a promise: if you are one of our summer associates, you will be a better legal writer by the time your summer ends.  We have many ways to make you a better writer: the rack, boiling oil, oh yes, and a multi-part writing seminar taught by a very engaging and knowledgeable professor, as well as frequent feedback from your reader and assigning attorneys.

An important part of your summer experience will be your "out-of-office" opportunities. Many of them are not really out of the office, but get over it, we're talking semantics here. You'll get to accompany Firm lawyers to hearings, depositions, closings, client meetings or trials. This will help you get a flavor for many aspects of the practice of law, learn through observation and participation, and get a sense of when you have to wear a suit.

And of course, the Q&B summer is FUN! The purpose of the fun (does one need a purpose for fun?) is threefold: (1) to allow you to get to know your office's city; (2) to allow you to get to know the Q&B attorneys and their families; and (3) to allow the Q&B attorneys and recruiters to get to know you. Some of our past summer associates have enjoyed: a lazy canoe trip down the Kickapoo River near our Madison office, wine and beer tastings, movie nights, Laverne and Shirley bowling night in Milwaukee, art crawl, Chicago Architectural boat tour, getaway weekend to Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, Jazz in the Park (Milwaukee), Jazz on the Rooftop (Madison), dinners at partners' homes, the Miller Brewery tour, baseball games, weekend in the White Mountains of Arizona, progressive dinner (Phoenix), trip to Nogales, Mexico, happy hours, and Xtreme bowling (Phoenix).

The 2008 Summer Associates attend the following schools: Arizona State University, Chicago-Kent, Cornell, Marquette, Northwestern, Ohio State, University of Arizona, University of Florida, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of New Mexico, University of Texas, University of Wisconsin, and West Virginia.