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Latham highly values the experience judicial clerks bring to the firm. We are proud to have an impressive list of former clerks from the US Supreme Court, every federal appellate court, and many federal district courts throughout the country.We are currently accepting judicial clerkship applications for 2026 associate positions in the Litigation & Trial Department.We award progression credit and a bonus to associates who have completed a qualifying clerkship. Clerks from the US Supreme Court are given an additional bonus.
Latham highly values the experience judicial clerks bring to the firm. We are proud to have an impressive list of former clerks from the US Supreme Court, every federal appellate court, and many federal district courts throughout the country.We are currently accepting judicial clerkship applications for 2026 associate positions in the Litigation & Trial Department.We award progression credit and a bonus to associates who have completed a qualifying clerkship. Clerks from the US Supreme Court are given an additional bonus.
Latham & Watkins is always willing to consider strong candidates on an opportunistic basis. If you do not see a role that aligns with your background or experience, please submit your application here for future consideration.Please note, the location of the role will vary depending on actual openings.
The Tax Department of the Los Angeles office is seeking an associate with a minimum of one year of transactional tax experience to join our 2nd to 5th year associate class.
The White Collar Practice is seeking a highly qualified associate with a minimum of two years of experience to join our 3rd to 6th year associate class.
The Supreme Court & Appellate Practice is seeking highly qualified associates to join our group. This is an exciting opportunity to work with our nationally recognized, Chambers Band 1 appellate practice on high-stakes appeals, key trial-court motions, and legal strategy. At minimum, candidates must have completed an appellate clerkship and possess strong analytical, research, and writing skills. We also welcome candidates with appellate litigation experience at a firm or in government service.
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.
The Privacy & Cyber Practice is seeking an associate with a minimum of 3 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. Successful applicants will have some mix of experience with government regulation, US, EU, and APEC policy enforcement and litigation matters regarding privacy and data security issues. A strong aptitude for technology and an understanding of how technologies work is strongly preferred. CIPP certification is a plus. Superior verbal, written, and interpersonal skills required.
The Executive Compensation, Employment & Benefits Practice is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented labor and employment associate with a minimum of two years of broad-based employment counseling experience to join our 3rd to 6th year associate class. Ideal candidates would have direct experience in employment law, with a focus on transactional work and client counseling, along with strong analytical, drafting, and communications skills. This is an opportunity to join a small, dynamic, and growing team dedicated to providing exceptional legal services regarding employment matters, working in close collaboration with practices across the firm. This non-litigation role will focus on: - providing labor and employment assistance in mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate...
Latham’s market-leading Copyright Practice is seeking an associate with a minimum of 3 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. Learn more about our Copyright Practice.
The Latham Tax Department is conducting a national search for attorneys with a minimum of 5 years of executive compensation and employee benefits experience. Qualified candidates will have significant experience in company representation and compensation disclosure issues and a broad array of transactional executive compensation and benefits matters (and the tax, securities and other relevant law associated with such matters).
The Tax Department is seeking an associate with a minimum of 2 years of benefits & compensation experience.
The Litigation Department is seeking an associate with a minimum of three years of complex commercial litigation experience to join our 4th to 6th year associate class.
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. The ideal candidate will have substantive knowledge of antitrust law, strong writing skills, and would join our 3rd to 7th-year associate class.
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. The ideal candidate will have substantive knowledge of antitrust law, strong writing skills, and would join our 3rd to 7th year associate class.
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. Experience with sponsor-side private equity acquisition financings is required.
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. Experience with sponsor-side private equity acquisition financings is preferred.
The Latham Banking Practice in San Diego is seeking associates with a minimum of two years of private credit, acquisition finance, or leveraged finance experience to join our cutting edge and growing team. Our practice includes financing and development in the gaming and hospitality space. Our clients are borrowers, arrangers, and direct lenders. This is a high growth practice with a supportive, collegial culture that continues to expand every year.
The Structured Finance Practice is seeking highly qualified associates with a minimum 2 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.
The Latham Banking Practice is seeking associates with a minimum of 2 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.
The Project Development & Finance Practice is seeking a highly qualified senior associate with a minimum of 4 years of experience, preferably including experience with project development and/or finance at a large national or international firm.
The Project Development & Finance Practice is seeking a highly qualified mid-level associate with a minimum of 2 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.
The Finance Department of the New York office is seeking an associate with a minimum of 2 years of experience in financial restructuring to join our associate class. Latham’s restructuring group represents corporations, banks, creditors’ committees, hedge funds, sponsors, and other financial institutions on a wide range of domestic and international workouts, restructurings and in-court bankruptcy proceedings.
The Mergers & Acquisitions/Private Equity practice is seeking a highly qualified associate with a minimum of 2 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and/or private equity to join our 3rd through 6th year associate class.
The Real Estate Practice is seeking a highly qualified associate with at least three years of experience in complex real estate transactions involving joint ventures, development projects, acquisitions, dispositions, real estate M&A, and financings. The global Real Estate Practice is a dynamic group that has a broad practice representing a diverse group of clients across the United States and internationally, including in the hospitality and healthcare sectors. These clients include private equity and investment funds, public and private real estate operating companies, development partners, S&P 500 REITs, financial institutions, and other institutional investors. Associates have the opportunity to work with attorneys both locally and across the firm, regardless of their assigned office....
The Emerging Companies & Growth Practice is seeking a highly qualified associate with a minimum of 3 years of experience in emerging growth companies, public companies, and/or capital markets to join our 4th- 7th year associate class.
The Mergers & Acquisitions/Private Equity practice is seeking highly qualified associates with a minimum of five years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and/or private equity to join our senior associate class.
The Corporate Department is seeking a highly qualified associate with a minimum of two years of experience in capital markets and/or public company representation to join the 3rd through 6th year associate class.
The Mergers & Acquisitions/Private Equity practice is seeking highly qualified associates with a minimum of 2 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions to join our 3rd through 6th year associate class.
The Corporate Department is seeking a highly qualified associate with a minimum of three years of experience in capital markets and/or public company representation to join the 4th through 5th year associate class.
The Mergers & Acquisitions practice is seeking highly qualified associates 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.
The Investment Funds Practice is seeking to add highly qualified associates with a minimum of three years of experience in liquidity transactions, secondaries markets, and related fund operational matters, to join our 4th through 6th year associate class. The practice group acts as counsel for fund sponsors around the globe, comprehensively handling liquidity transactions including but not limited to continuation funds, recapitalizations, traditional LP portfolio sales, fund-level and GP-level preferred equity investments, and investments in firm sponsors.
The Investment Funds Practice is seeking to add highly qualified associates with a minimum of three years of experience in private investment fund formation and related fund operational matters, to join our 4th through 6th year associate class. The practice group acts as counsel for fund sponsors around the globe, handling all aspects of the structuring and fundraising of private investment funds across a broad spectrum of asset classes, as well as internal sponsor arrangements, co-investments, fund operations, and regulatory and compliance matters.
We are seeking a highly qualified associate with a minimum of five years of privacy experience to join our 5th+ year associate class. 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 compliance and transactional matters. Applicants should have a mix of experience with commercial contracts, regulatory compliance and corporate transactional work in relation to data privacy and security issues. The ideal candidate will have counselled clients on compliance with privacy laws, negotiated the privacy and security components of commercial services agreements, and handled all privacy and security components of corporate transactions (including M&A deals, IPOs, etc.). The...
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. The ideal candidate will have an undergraduate and/or advanced degree in engineering, computer science, chemistry, biology, physics, or a similar field.
The Investment Funds Regulatory Practice is seeking a highly qualified associate candidate with at least 3 years of relevant asset management regulatory experience. Candidates should have strong working knowledge of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the Investment Company Act of 1940. Private equity and hedge fund formation experience is also helpful. The group’s investment funds attorneys provide legal, regulatory, and compliance advice to investment advisers, family offices, and other financial institutions around the globe, including in connection with operating and managing private equity funds, private credit funds, hedge funds, and real estate funds, and the structuring of complex corporate transactions involving investment advisers and investment funds. Investment funds...
The Latin America Practice is seeking a highly qualified associate with a minimum of 2 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.
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. The ideal candidate will have experience working with healthcare providers, digital health/technology companies, and other organizations on complex regulatory frameworks, including HIPAA, CCPA/CPRA, evolving AI laws, and healthcare fraud and abuse laws (e.g., Stark, anti-kickback).This role includes advising clients on data protection/AI and healthcare regulatory counseling and transactions. The candidate must have excellent drafting and negotiation skills, as well as superior verbal and interpersonal skills, and not only be able to manage multiple...
Data and Technology Transactions Practice is seeking a highly qualified associate with a minimum of three years of experience to join our 4th to 7th year associate class. The ideal candidate will have experience working on technology and intellectual property transactions such as technology licensing agreements, development agreements, consulting services agreements, distribution agreements, strategic alliances, website and mobile application licenses, and terms of use. Additionally, the candidate should have experience in IP-related work on acquisition, investment, or financing transactions.
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. The ideal candidate will have a degree in Biology or Chemistry-related fields or experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. The candidate should have excellent drafting and negotiation skills.
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. Experience in product development, clinical trials, launch and marketing, and with the government regulators at every stage of the FDA-regulated product life cycle is preferred. Candidate should possess outstanding writing skills and a desire to join a dynamic, diverse, and fast-paced practice area.
