⚡ Quick Guide: Experienced Attorneys - Wilson Sonsini Careers

Changing firms mid-career—or returning to private practice after serving in government or in-house roles—can be an incredibly exciting time. Transitioning your practice at a time of your career marked by substantial growth means you need a firm who will set you up for success.

By joining Wilson Sonsini, you’ll have a global platform and an incredibly dynamic client base on which to grow your business. And our robust lateral integration efforts and associate training academies will ensure that you don’t miss a step on your way up the ladder.

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Office:: Palo Alto
Practice:: Corporate

Bring your 3-5 years of experience in debt capital markets and/or commercial finance to our dynamic Palo Alto Corporate Finance team. You will have done borrower/issuer-side work and have experience in connection with single-lender and syndicated credit facilities, venture lending transactions, leveraged buyouts, offerings of convertible, high-yield, and investment-grade notes, and other structured financial instruments. Be a part of our fast-paced, collegial and team-oriented practice.

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Office:: New York; Washington, D.C.
Practice:: General Corporate; Fund Formation

Join our collaborative, client-focused fund services team! We represent leading venture capital and growth equity firms and guide clients through every stage of the fund life cycle. If you want to lead and deepen our practice, we want to hear from you. Your 4-6 years of fund formation experience will include working with sponsors in connection with the structuring, formation and operation of investment funds, and representing investors in private investment funds as well as advising our clients on all aspects of their investment programs and the related legal, regulatory and compliance matters.

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Office:: Los Angeles; New York; San Francisco
Practice:: Corporate

If you want to represent companies at all stages of development in a diverse range of emerging and disruptive technologies, join our Corporate team. You will need an understanding of blockchain technology and markets as well as 3-6 years of experience advising crypto and web3 companies on transactions including: venture capital financings; crypto token, digital asset and NFT issuances; primary and secondary sales of crypto tokens and digital assets; or creation of offshore structures related to crypto token and digital asset issuances. Ideally, you will sit in our SF office. We are also open to candidates in LA and NY.

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Office:: Palo Alto; San Francisco
Practice:: Employment Litigation

The employment litigation team at Wilson Sonsini has a uniquely broad practice. We are not a cookie-cutter employment department; it’s an exciting, varied, and collaborative practice working with cutting-edge clients ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies in technology, life science, green energy, and cleantech. On any given day, you might be conducting an internal investigation, advising on a spin-out merger, or preparing a brief. Mid-level associates in our practice work on significant litigation matters spanning the employment relationship, including trade secret misappropriation claims, covenants not to compete and other contract issues, and high-profile sexual harassment and discrimination matters.

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An Inside Look

Inside the Corporate Department: What’s a Neighborhood?

Every firm has its own insider knowledge base—the quirks and ways of working that are hard to understand until you actually work there. Wherever possible, we try to tell you about those quirks as you’re researching us so that you can get a better understanding of how we operate. Which leads us to answer the question: At Wilson Sonsini, what do we mean by “neighborhoods”?