Experienced Lawyers
Periodically, Potter Anderson has a need for experienced lateral hires from Delaware and other states with excellent qualifications who can fill a particular need in one of our practice areas. Please click here to view our current lateral attorney opportunities.
Note to search firms: you must have a signed agreement on file with the firm in order to submit candidate applications. Candidate applications must be submitted through the firm’s online application portal. Emailed submissions will not be accepted.
Why choose POTTER ANDERSON?
Maintaining and growing the firm’s outstanding reputation among its law firm peers and clients means hiring and retaining lawyers who are interested in and committed to their professional development. To match this commitment, the firm provides lawyers with the guidance, intellectual challenges and hands-on responsibilities they need to become leading professionals in their chosen fields. Professional development is vital to the future success of the firm, and we are dedicated to keeping the firm an exciting and collegial environment in which each lawyer’s best strengths and talents can flourish.
Here are a just a few things that we do to invest in our associates:
- Organized mentoring and feedback programs, including upward reviews
- Up to 100 hours of billable credit for pro bono, business development, training and mentoring, bar involvement, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and other important firm-building activities
- Legal Training Committee that is responsible for developing competencies, benchmarks and training curriculum for associates
- Associates Committee, comprised of associates and partners, which gathers associate feedback, and makes recommendations to firm leadership for addressing questions and suggestions
In addition to experienced lateral associates, former judicial clerks bring important experience to our legal practice. Clerks’ skills and knowledge contribute directly to our ability to meet the diverse needs of our clients. We've established a legacy of attracting and retaining former judicial clerks. Potter Anderson is proud that nearly a quarter of our lawyers have clerked.
Why choose Delaware?
For more than 100 years, Delaware has been recognized as the nation’s corporate domicile of choice, and many major businesses from around the nation and the world, including a majority of the Fortune 500, are incorporated here. Those entities necessarily look to Delaware law and to Delaware lawyers for advice on a wide variety of transactions and for representation in complex corporate, bankruptcy and IP litigation in our storied state and federal courts, ensuring that our lawyers are always on the cutting edge of an ever-changing legal landscape.
Along with a dynamic and cutting-edge legal environment, Delaware boasts a small and unique bar that creates a rewarding and collaborative environment for the practice of law. There is an emphasis on collegiality in the Delaware bar that is one of the key ingredients to the success of the system. In other jurisdictions, it may be unlikely that you will face your opposing counsel or your judge in other matters with any regularity. In Delaware, you are very likely to be working with your opposing counsel in another matter, and will routinely be before the same judges. Those relationships help to ensure that all parties cooperate to move the transaction or litigation forward in a reasonable and efficient manner. Potter Anderson strongly encourages and supports associates’ efforts to strengthen their profile and relationships within the Bar.