As a Baird Holm associate, your career can grow as fast as you determine. We do not place artificial restraints on career paths or the areas of law in which your practice can grow. You won't be lost in the crowd.

Each associate has a supervising partner, and begins his or her career in one practice group. Your supervisor will be your mentor, and assist you in learning the law. We don't treat our work as a "commodity" at Baird Holm or your role in the process as that of an assembly line worker, which means that you will truly learn how to practice law…and how to develop business…and how to balance your career and your life outside of the Firm.

Baird Holm associates are required to bill 1,850 hours a year, which leaves plenty of time to develop areas of interest outside of the Firm. We work hard, but we also maintain a strong sense of family and community. We hire new lawyers with the expectation that if they perform excellent work, they can make partner. This is not done on a "numbers game." We welcome new partners after 6 1/2 years of practice with the Firm.

Our associates have real client contact, and develop the skills to solve complex legal problems early in their careers. Our associates also play important roles in shaping the future of the Firm -- there is an associate seat on the recruiting committee, and management's doors (and the doors in all the corner offices) are always open.