RECRUITING

With over thirty attorneys and more than forty support staff, Santoro, Driggs, Walch, Kearney, Holley & Thompson is one of the largest law firms in Las Vegas. The Firm is a general practice law firm and has developed a strong corporate and business clientele. The Firm, relatively newly established, has brought together a dynamic group of attorneys from several of Nevada's older law firms with decades of experience to form a new way of providing legal service. Although the Firm maintains a general law practice, its attorneys concentrate in commercial litigation, corporate law, bankruptcy, trademark and intellectual property, workers compensation insurance defense, and private land use law. The Firm also has broad experience in administrative law, estate planning, probate and tax law.

The Firm encourages its attorneys to engage in pro bono and professional activities. Such activities include legal services to public service organizations in need of assistance.

The Firm is located in the City Centre Building in the heart of downtown Las Vegas within walking distance of the United States federal courthouse and the Clark County Regional Justice Center, which consolidates county and municipal courts and other major justice system components. Within seven unique downtown neighborhoods you'll find a variety of cultural and historical attractions including museums, galleries, shops, public art, architectural landmarks and other points of interest.

The Firm is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of the Firm, from recruitment through employment and promotion, training and work assignments, to provide equal opportunity at all times without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability.

The Firm typically recruits its attorneys through its summer clerkship program, which usually consists of one or two law clerks between their second and third years of law school each summer. The Firm hopes to receive resumes from interested candidates who have completed their first year of law school from June through December each year. Although the Firm hopes to select its law clerks from the upcoming summer during the preceding autumn, the Firm on occasion selects additional law clerks after the fall recruiting season; thus the Firm continues to receive and review applications from interested law students after January 1 each year through the beginning of each summer clerkship program.

The Firm's summer associate program is designed to acquaint law students with as many areas of legal practice as possible, as well as provide the opportunity for the student to work, with each of the Firm's attorneys as time permits. The goal of the Firm's summer associate program is to provide each student broad exposure to our Firm, its practice, and its attorneys, as well as allowing the Firm ample opportunity to observe each student's work ability and potential as a future attorney, so that both the Firm and each student can make an informed decision regarding what the Firm hopes in each case will be a position as a permanent associate upon graduation from law school.

Although the Firm looks to its summer associate program as the principle source of attorney recruitment, the Firm also accepts applications from lateral transfer attorneys who have already begun their legal careers, particularly from those attorneys who have prior work experience in commercial litigation. The Firm's continually expanding commercial litigation practice has historically created a regular need for additional litigators admitted to the State Bar of Nevada.

The Firm reviews each associate attorney candidate on individual merit, with the objective being to select those candidates with the intellectual ability, legal training, work ethic, and interpersonal skills requisite to being a shareholder of the Firm. The Firm's sincere hope and expectation is that each of the Firm's associate attorneys will develop his or her legal skills to ultimately become qualified to be a shareholder of the Firm and accept that position and the responsibilities attendant to it.

The Firm is also keenly aware of the vital role that professional and capable paralegals and staff play in the Firm's continued success. As with attorneys, the Firm is always receiving and reviewing resumes for qualified individuals who are interested in pursuing a career in the legal community. The Firm offers its employees an excellent benefits package as well as competitive salaries. Interested applicants are encouraged to submit their resumes.