Opportunities for Attorneys

We practice in seven core areas, including tax, litigation, international, ERISA, white collar defense, government contracts, and government affairs. Each encompasses issues, policies, and controversies with a federal government focus. While our practices are distinct and identifiable, they do not operate independently of one another. The companies and individual clients who bring their most complex issues to us seek creative resolutions that often require the blending of talents, experience, and perspectives from more than one practice. For example, lawyers in our tax practice have collaborated with civil litigators on federal tax litigation, and with criminal defense lawyers on complicated white collar criminal matters. Our investigations teams blend lawyers with great depth in technical subject matter areas in substantive law with experienced trial lawyers. Our ERISA practice combines lawyers with significant benefits capabilities, experienced industry litigators, and veteran trial lawyers to develop novel approaches to benchmark claims. Just as we seek to mesh traditional and cutting-edge methods within a particular practice area, we seek to bring our diversity of experience and perspective to bear on our clients' most pressing challenges.    

We are always looking for bright and entrepreneurial entry-level attorneys who are serious about developing a career in one of our core practice areas. We expect our associates to develop substantive legal skills and to participate in problem-solving from day one. We also encourage our lawyers to begin building their practice profiles from the moment they join the firm, so an entrepreneurial spirit is a must. We generally fill our entry-level positions with those who have been in our summer programs.

Outreach on Campus

Our lawyers seek to connect with students in substantive ways. We cultivate relationships with professors at numerous law schools and embrace opportunities to appear as guest lecturers in their classes, allowing us to form real connections with students. We have engaged with many student organizations over the years, attending group meetings to discuss important topics of interest, participating in panels, and supporting events with those groups. In addition to events on campus, we organize events at the firm for students to get to know us better.

2L On-Camera Interviewing (OCI) 

Our summer program typically consists of three to five highly qualified law students who have a demonstrated interest in at least one of the firm's core practice areas. Our firm is engaged with Career Services offices (OCS) at most major law schools and we participate in OCI at several nationally recognized schools. We are always looking for qualified candidates, wherever you may be. If you are interested in pursuing an opportunity with us, contact us directly at recruiting@milchev.com or visit your OCS on campus to find out when we may be visiting your school.

Individual Applicants

If we are not visiting your school, please feel free to send a letter and resume to us at recruiting@milchev.com. We note that we generally fill our summer program soon after most schools' OCI process is complete.

Miller & Chevalier seeks talented, entrepreneurial, and motivated individuals who appreciate our values and welcome the opportunity to join the Miller & Chevalier community. We are particularly interested in lateral candidates with experience in the government agencies with which our clients interact, as well as those whose private practice experience has included extensive involvement in our core practice areas. 

If you are interested in pursuing an opportunity with us, please contact us at recruiting@milchev.com.

Attorney Development

Miller & Chevalier recruits top talent from across the country and recognizes that retaining that talent rests heavily on several factors, including professional development and the maintenance of a work environment that is respectful of the personal priorities of our attorneys.

The firm strives to maximize attorney development through its holistic sponsoring and mentoring program, a Lawyer Development Committee (LDC), and a firm-wide commitment to facilitating meaningful interactions from the very beginning of an Associate's career. We also provide regular firm-wide training programs focused on a variety of substantive legal skills and overall skill development.

The firm's LDC is made up of a diverse group of Members from each of our primary practice areas. The role of the LDC is to implement and oversee initiatives related to the development and advancement of our Associates and Counsel. We understand that each individual will meet different challenges along the path to becoming a successful lawyer and, as such, we invest significant time and resources in developing programming that meets those individual needs. 

Centralized Workload Reporting

To ensure that work opportunities are equitably distributed, we created a centralized workload reporting system so that our assignment coordinators can objectively assign work based on real metrics. The assignment process also is informed by feedback from LDC representatives and Associates on the types of experiences and subject area expertise each Associate needs to advance.

Real-Time Feedback 

We know that Associates need regular feedback to advance and do not want to learn of a performance issue for the first time in their annual review. Our Real-Time Feedback system is linked to our centralized workload reporting system, allowing an Associate to request feedback on an assignment at any time. We encourage our Associates to utilize this feature often, not only to obtain immediate feedback, but also to create a record in our system to be used in their annual evaluation.