At Harter Secrest & Emery, providing exceptional client service is paramount to our success as a firm, and our clients appreciate the high quality legal work and service that they receive. Our culture is informal, collaborative and collegial - not competitive with each other. We value teamwork and mutual respect. Our clients are clients of the firm, not of any one particular lawyer. What really sets us apart, however, is that we offer the sophistication and diversity of a "big city" law practice with the feel of a "small town" firm.

Founded in 1894, Harter Secrest & Emery LLP maintains a diversified and dynamic law practice shared by over 120 lawyers. Our offices are located in Rochester, Buffalo, Albany, Corning, and New York, New York. Our firm is organized into four units (Business, Employment, Litigation and Property) with many cross-disciplinary practice groups, including, corporate, securities, intellectual property, banking and finance, labor, litigation, real estate, trusts and estates, tax and employee benefits, and immigration, among others. Our clients range from entrepreneurial start-up businesses to nationally prominent institutions, including several Fortune 100 companies.

We are committed to making each community in which we have an office a better place to live, and we support the efforts of our people to give back to and enrich our communities. We are proud that our attorneys play an active role in this regard. Our attorneys participate in local pro bono representation, serve on various community and charitable boards and are active in local, state and national bar associations.

We place a premium on our people, with considerable focus on the training, development and career satisfaction of our attorneys. Associates receive substantial and direct client contact early on in their careers at HSE. We staff our matters with small teams of attorneys, and consequently, associates gain hands-on experience more quickly than at larger firms. In addition to the learning opportunities inherent in our day-to-day practice, and the feedback and mentoring that takes place in the course of a case, transaction or other matter, we also offer our attorneys a curriculum of in-house formal training programs that assist in the development of substantive knowledge and lawyering skills.

Our summer program is designed to give our summer associates a realistic view of our firm and what it is like to be an associate here. Because our summer program is on a smaller scale, students benefit from working closely with and getting to know the firm's attorneys, while at the same time getting real responsibility on important and challenging matters. Summer associates can expect to work with a range of attorneys from various practice groups and are given the opportunity to attend court hearings, depositions, closings and client meetings. We invite our summer associates to become fully integrated into the firm during the summer and participate in our practice group meetings, firm-wide events, training programs, and social events.

For more information about Harter Secrest & Emery LLP, please visit our website at www.hselaw.com.