2L Spring 2025 Food + Beverage Diversity Law Clerk

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is offering a paid, school-term law clerk position to a 2L student to work with our Food + Beverage team for the Spring 2025 Term. This is a remote position with the potential to travel to DWT’s Portland office at some point during the clerkship.

Our Food + Beverage team provides seamless legal services to leading-edge food, beverage, and agriculture businesses across a wide spectrum of areas of expertise including food and alcohol regulatory, antitrust, business and corporate, employment, food safety, venture capital financing, land use and real property, supply chain and intellectual property. Our clients include emerging food brands, large and small food and alcohol manufacturers, and agriculture businesses including fruit growers and milk producers.

The 2L Food + Beverage Diversity Law Clerk opportunity is available to all second-year law students who:

• Commit to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive legal profession; 
• Have a demonstrated interest in working with Food + Beverage (including Agriculture) businesses and supporting their legal needs;
• Currently attend an ABA-Accredited law school;
• Are able to commit to 5-10 hours of work each week during Spring semester in 2025;
• Are interested in collaborating with F+B attorneys across practice groups, contributing to blog posts, client alerts, and presentations;
• Are highly organized, able to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines; and
• Have great communication skills, both written and verbal.

The hourly salary for this position is $40.00/hour.

We require the following application materials: 

• Current resume (please omit GPA information);
• Cover letter (describing why you have an interest in working with our Food + Beverage team and explaining how you meet the criteria set forth above);
• Personal Statement of 500 words responding to the prompt below; and
• List of two or three references, one of whom should be a person qualified to comment on your law schoolwork and/or other related professional skill and experience.

Personal Statement Prompt:

Your personal statement should help us learn more about you and should address the requirements of the position, including a commitment to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive legal profession. This includes your personal experiences and information not readily available on your resume.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and must be received by 11:59 p.m. PDT on October 20, 2024.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are part of the fabric of Davis Wright Tremaine - central to who we are and what we do. Our vision is to foster a culture where all talented individuals - including those who are from traditionally underrepresented communities in the legal profession - can have, and can see, a path to success.  We embed DEI throughout our law firm with our four-pillar framework: Community, Growth, Education, and Engagement.  We invite you to learn more about our commitment to DEI at https://www.dwt.com/about/diversity-equity-and-inclusion.

Davis Wright Tremaine provides reasonable accommodations for those who need them to complete the application or recruiting process and for employees who need reasonable accommodations to perform the essential functions of their positions due to a disability or for religious reasons. If you need to request accommodation during the application or recruiting process, please email HumanResources_Confidential@dwt.com.