Build provides opportunities to engage in pro bono and community service work that broadens your networks, strengthens your skills, and reinforces the values that define our profession.
Lawyer Development
At King & Spalding, you have the opportunity and support to grow and thrive while collaborating with colleagues across practices, offices, and the globe. Our career development resources are designed to help you find your focus, sharpen your skills, deepen your expertise, build meaningful relationships, and advance with confidence wherever your career takes you. With a global platform and multiple practice specialties, opportunities abound. We don’t take a “one size fits all” approach, so you can focus on what you need to further your goals.
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Opportunities for Individualized Development
We invest in you so you can direct your career. We provide opportunities and support to build skills, broaden experience, strengthen relationships, and shape your career with purpose. Your support includes:
Opportunities for Professional Guidance
From day one, we help you create relationships with other lawyers who guide you as you integrate into the firm and who help you identify and pursue opportunities for growth.
Opportunities for Collaboration: Associate Academies
Through the firm’s associate academies, you will have the opportunity to come together with lawyers from across the globe to learn, connect, and collaborate. These programs deepen legal knowledge, strengthen core skills, and build relationships that spark future collaboration across offices and practices.
Opportunities for Advancement: Milestone Programming
Our Milestone Program meets you where you are at each stage of your career, helping you build leadership skills and become more proficient in mentoring others, developing business, and managing matters—equipping you with the tools, perspective, and confidence to succeed in your role and transition to the next stage of your career.
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Based in London, through the Connect K&S program, I visited the firm’s New York and D.C. offices. As a result, I feel much more integrated into the larger firm. It planted the seeds for future collaborations and opportunities.
Shouvik Bhattacharya, Counsel
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As a first-year associate in Washington, D.C., I was given the opportunity to attend a Los Angeles media and entertainment law conference, where I joined a client dinner, met client contacts, attended a media and entertainment industry group meeting, and was added to new cases.
Negassi H. Tesfamichael, Associate
For partners and counsel, we support your continued practice and professional growth in a number of ways. If you’d like more information, reach out to the Lawyer Talent Development Team.