CAREER PATH
Summer Associate
Build the skills you need to thrive in today’s dynamic legal workplace. Writing, tech, and other essential practice skills—all in one compact career path. From writing fundamentals to word processing basics, the Summer Associate Career Path will help you succeed in your summer job or externship.
Jump Into This Career Path
What You’ll Learn
Discover everything you’ll learn in this Career Path—course by course.
LW 1: Writing Mechanics
Master the nuts and bolts of effective writing—from basic grammar and punctuation to essential sentence structure. At the end of this course, you’ll be able to write clearer and error free prose.
LW 2: Writing Clearly
Discover how to write clear, convincing, and persuasive prose with an emphasis on cutting clutter, editing techniques, and understanding your reader’s psychology.
LW 3: Writing Style Foundations
Improve your writing’s flow and readability with tried and tested techniques for effective organization, writing stronger sentences, and choosing the right words.
LW 5: Writing About Facts
Embrace the story you have to tell! In this course you’ll learn how to write fact sections that subtly persuade and focus readers on the key facts you need them to remember.
LW 6: Legal Research
Take your legal research to the next level with skills like crafting a research plan and understanding citations. You’ll also learn how the latest legal research platforms can help you find better authority and save you time.
LW 8: Persuasive Legal Writing
Learn how to develop persuasive arguments for your target audience with the fundamental cognitive science principles, document organization, and advanced legal analysis techniques.
LIT 1: Drafting Litigation Documents
Equip yourself with simple and effective skills for drafting litigation documents like memos, emails, motions, briefs, and more!
CORP 1: Transactional Drafting Foundations
Develop your contract drafting skills with Ross Guberman—and have fun doing it. Bite-sized videos and interactive practice help you learn the basic parts of a contract and key drafting principles to set you up for success.
LP 1: Legal Practice Foundations
Hit the ground running at your legal job by learning the foundations of how law firms and other legal teams work, providing excellent client service, techniques for effective verbal communication. and more.
TECH 2: Word Processing and Spreadsheets
Take your word processing and spreadsheet skills to the next level with lessons designed to target skills most useful to daily practice as a legal professional.
Legal skills for the 21st-century
We use 21st-century learning science to train today’s legal professionals. Bite-sized training, data-backed techniques, and lessons that are actually fun make it possible for you to pick up a new skill in no time.
“Write.law's training fundamentally changed my writing. My first drafts got better. My editing became more effective. And my final drafts became much more like the writers I admire.”
Alex Velto
Associate Attorney at Hutchison & Steffen LLP
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Career Path?
A Career Path is a collection of curated courses designed to help you achieve specific career goals over several weeks or months. Each Career Path features pre-selected courses so you never have to guess what to learn next. Whether you're a summer associate or a new corporate attorney, Career Paths make it easy from day one.
How many courses are in a Career Path?
Each Career Path has a different number of courses depending on the path you’re learning. Career Paths with more courses usually take longer to complete.
What’s the difference between Career Paths and Skill Paths?
Career Paths help you prepare for specific career goals—like becoming a Summer Associate or a Junior Litigation Attorney. Career Paths tend to include courses from across different skill areas, like legal writing, litigation, corporate, technology, and more. Skill paths, on the other hand, are designed to help you master a specific set of skills—like writing fundamentals or litigation writing.
Can I buy a Career Path?
Not exactly. A Career Path is a collection of courses. You can buy each course in a Career Path individually or save money by becoming a Write.law member and unlocking all courses.
Should I become a Write.law member?
If you want to buy more than one Write.law course, consider becoming a member. Our monthly or annual memberships unlock access to all Write.law courses.
I really want Write.law but I can't afford it...
We want to make legal skills training accessible to as many people as possible. If you really can’t afford our products, please contact us. Just let us know your situation and what products interest you. We’ll do everything we can to help.
