NO ONE DOES IT ALONE AT SKADDEN.
Here, you’ll benefit from a network of attorneys with unmatched experience and a passion for teaching their craft. The knowledge you gain and the impact you make at Skadden will create ripple effects that will last throughout your career.
Let’s begin to carve your path.
Here, you’ll benefit from a network of attorneys with unmatched experience and a passion for teaching their craft. The knowledge you gain and the impact you make at Skadden will create ripple effects that will last throughout your career.
Let’s begin to carve your path.
Ryan Dzierniejko
Partner, Capital Markets
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Who is the “Skadden attorney”?
Someone who checks all of the expected boxes: smart and hard-working; a team player with strong ethics. Equally important, someone who understands that being a good lawyer isn’t just knowing rules and procedures — it’s also providing strategic advice that helps position clients for success. Unpacking complex laws and systems in a way that distills complicated concepts to facilitate better-informed decisions. Using EQ as much as IQ to solve problems.
Best career advice I’ve received
To carve my own path — whether as a junior associate or as a partner. There are so many types of matters to work on at Skadden — it’s up to each of us to figure out our areas of interest and a career direction. That process begins on day one at the firm, and it never stops.
Maya Florence
Partner, Litigation
(BIO)
How have you “carved your path” at Skadden?
After my second year in the New York Litigation Group, I left to clerk in federal court. Two years later, a partner convinced me to join the firm’s new health care team, and then another partner introduced me to life sciences work. I was quickly hooked. I volunteered for every opportunity and learned through doing. Everyone supported my development of a new practice focus, even though I was a fifth year. The partners had plenty of interesting and challenging assignments for me and really took the time to teach me about the field.
What do you enjoy most about working at Skadden?
My colleagues. Everyone is smart and resourceful and shares a commitment to doing the best job possible for our clients. I’m continually amazed by what we can accomplish working together. When we face a challenging question without an easy answer, we assemble a team of extraordinary attorneys from across practice areas and offices and put our heads together to figure it out. Skadden’s success truly comes from our teamwork.
Abby Davis
Partner, Litigation
(BIO)
How has Skadden helped build your career as an attorney?
From the beginning, I’ve worked alongside some of the world’s most brilliant attorneys, especially the many mentors I’ve had in our Litigation Group. Being in the conference room as these top legal minds brainstormed solutions to extraordinarily challenging issues played a huge role in my development. No matter how fast-paced the work became, partners and other senior attorneys in the group always took the time to explain the nuances of our work. They mentored me and gave me room to take on new assignments and broaden my practice. Now that I’m a partner, I’m grateful to have the opportunity to pay it forward.
What do you enjoy most about working at Skadden?
The work. At Skadden, we represent clients in a steady stream of interesting, high-profile, first-of-their-kind cases. I love the process of collaborating with my colleagues and diving into the issues. In my time here, I’ve learned that you win an argument weeks or even months before you step into the courtroom — I know that I’m ready when I feel like I understand the plaintiff’s arguments better than they do. I love being a litigator, and there’s nowhere better to do it.