Your Success Is Our Success: Training and Mentoring at Bracewell

Formal and informal mentoring and training programs help ensure you develop the skills need to grow as a lawyers, but also as a future leader within the firm.
Learn more about Bracewell’s professional development program from our partners, associates and recent summer associates.
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Nancy Davis: Bracewell is a good place to build a career because there’s really no limit on what you can do.
Kate McGregor: You really get to jump in with both feet from day one. You are immediately given responsibility that I think at other firms you won’t see.
Dewey Gonsoulin: We invest in our associates in a number of ways. One, we make sure that we have really good training programs, but the real training and learning comes from hands-on doing.
Kyra Link: In terms of mentoring opportunities, Bracewell gives each summer associate for each rotation an associate mentor and a partner mentor.
Mollie Naegeli: I feel I have been able to go to partners and associates alike with any questions I have, and they’re just there to guide you through the practice area and teach you what they do on a daily basis.
Julia Boyce: Our summer event programming offers a lot of opportunities for more organic mentorship.
Sam Folb: All of the attorneys are very open, and I know it is a door open policy where if you have any questions, I am more than welcome to come into anybody’s office and they will take the time to answer my question and be honest with me, which I really appreciate.
Amber Krupp: At Bracewell, I’ve had great mentors. People who are super knowledgeable, experts in the field, but also kind and really generous with their time and their mentoring.
Garrett Merville: Something that really struck me is the willingness of partners and associates to sit down with me and just discuss what I was doing so that I had some context, and it really made the work more meaningful.
Jay Harper: I’ve got senior associates, mid-level associates who all care about me and want to see me succeed, but also partners, which is I think what truly makes Bracewell special.
Nancy Davis: The firm really invests a lot, not just in your development of your skill set as a lawyer, but also your development and your skill set as a professional.
Nate Guerra: Some of these things you just cannot learn from a book, and the only way you can really soak that in is just riding shot gun with some of the most knowledgeable people in their profession. That’s what I think this firm does so well.
Kate McGregor: I think this idea that you have one mentor and that they are all things to you is a little bit misguided and you really get to pick and choose, it’s buffet style who your mentors are and what they bring to the table.
Jay Harper: There’s a boot camp that you go through every first and second year. So they teach us not only stuff we might see in our individual practice areas but in an overall broad sense of what we might see, which I think has been extremely helpful so I’m not surprised. When a partner puts something on my desk. I can say, hey, I’ve seen that before, and I have some back up for that.
Nancy Davis: The firm does a really good job of helping associates as they progress in their careers, change their focus from just the work in front of me to what am I going to be doing and where do I want to go in my career.
Nate Guerra: It’s more than culture. It’s the people that help make that culture taking an interest in you and in particular seeing your growth.
Bronwyn Tuff: I’ve had great relationships with both the associates and the partners who have taken so much time out of their busy schedules to sit with me and always discuss any questions I have.
Dylan Benac: I think that’s just indicative of where the firm wants me to succeed, because my success is their success. It’s not just a line but actually backing it up. It’s one thing to say. It’s another thing to do it.
Jay Harper: I think the level of mentorship that we get and the investment in our career as attorneys…It could be really easy for people to give us work and say get it done. I feel like Bracewell actually invests in you and wants you to succeed. That’s something I appreciate.
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