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A partnership between Quarles & Brady
Streich Lang and two Native American reser-
vation communities has resulted in a unique
summer program - splitting law student
duties between Indian law issues and main-
stream legal practice in the firm’s Phoenix
and Milwaukee offices. The program targets
Native American law students.
Conceived in 1999, the program began in
2000 with the hiring of Kerry Patterson, a
Seneca Nation member and law student at
Arizona State University. Patterson and sum-
mer associates who followed spent half the
program working on legal issues within the
Gila River Community and half in Quarles &
Brady’s Phoenix offices.
More recently, the firm signed an agree-
ment with the Forest County Potawatomi
tribe in Wisconsin to begin a similar program
through Quarles & Brady’s Milwaukee offic-
es. Jim Ryan, a Phoenix-based partner who
has played a leading role in the program,
said the firm planned to hire at least one Na-
tive American first year student in Milwaukee
this summer.
He said the firm has expanded its recruiting
search for the program from Arizona to law
schools and Native American Legal Students
Association members nationwide. In the
program’s second year, the firm brought in
a Navajo law student at Cornell University.
Two former summer program participants
have received and accepted permanent offers
from the firm, Ryan said, including Patter-
son.
Associates alternate weekly stints between
the reservation and the firm’s office. In addi-
tion to Indian law issues, associates receive
the same types of projects and assignments
that the firm’s other associates handle.
Quarles & Brady pays the entire summer
associate salary of the Native American pro-
gram participants.
This story appeared in the February, 2003
edition of The National Jurist, www.nation-
aljurist.com
Firm runs Native American summer program
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A law firm has partnered with two Native American reservations to create a unique summer program for Native American law students. The program splits the students' time between working on legal issues for the reservations and working in the law firm's offices. It began in 2000 with one student from Arizona State University spending half their time at the Gila River Community and half at the firm. The program has since expanded to include a similar arrangement with the Forest County Potawatomi tribe and the firm's Milwaukee office. The firm recruits nationwide and fully funds the salaries for the Native American students in the summer program.
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- 1. 1.800.973.1177CAREER COUNSELOR’S CORNER PAGE1 A partnership between Quarles & Brady Streich Lang and two Native American reser- vation communities has resulted in a unique summer program - splitting law student duties between Indian law issues and main- stream legal practice in the firm’s Phoenix and Milwaukee offices. The program targets Native American law students. Conceived in 1999, the program began in 2000 with the hiring of Kerry Patterson, a Seneca Nation member and law student at Arizona State University. Patterson and sum- mer associates who followed spent half the program working on legal issues within the Gila River Community and half in Quarles & Brady’s Phoenix offices. More recently, the firm signed an agree- ment with the Forest County Potawatomi tribe in Wisconsin to begin a similar program through Quarles & Brady’s Milwaukee offic- es. Jim Ryan, a Phoenix-based partner who has played a leading role in the program, said the firm planned to hire at least one Na- tive American first year student in Milwaukee this summer. He said the firm has expanded its recruiting search for the program from Arizona to law schools and Native American Legal Students Association members nationwide. In the program’s second year, the firm brought in a Navajo law student at Cornell University. Two former summer program participants have received and accepted permanent offers from the firm, Ryan said, including Patter- son. Associates alternate weekly stints between the reservation and the firm’s office. In addi- tion to Indian law issues, associates receive the same types of projects and assignments that the firm’s other associates handle. Quarles & Brady pays the entire summer associate salary of the Native American pro- gram participants. This story appeared in the February, 2003 edition of The National Jurist, www.nation- aljurist.com Firm runs Native American summer program [Jim Dunlap]