Top 5 Biglaw Firm Creates New Way For Associates To Connect, Learn The Ropes

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Jun 4, 2025 - 00:45
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Top 5 Biglaw Firm Creates New Way For Associates To Connect, Learn The Ropes

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Trivia Question of the Day!

Which top-ranked Am Law firm has introduced an innovative professional development program that allows first-year associates to make connections through the use of practice group “pods”?

Hint: The firm first launched this program in 2020, and today, about 800 attorneys in the firm’s U.S. offices have gone through this program. “It came out of the pandemic,” the firm’s director of professional development said, “and it was such a success that we’ve just continued it ever since.”

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