Associate

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Ashby & Geddes has never set any billable hour requirements or targets for its lawyers.  The firm’s experience has been that its relatively selective hiring process has made such requirements unnecessary.  The lawyers here all know when a particular case or matter requires one to work long hours, and they willingly do so because they also know that the firm encourages the use of the same professional judgment in setting priorities for family, friends and community.  If you interview with us, please ask our associates about the firm’s approach to balancing work with other priorities.

Associates at Ashby & Geddes work closely with the firm’s seasoned practitioners.  In their first few years at the firm, associates generally receive assignments from all of the firm’s practice areas.  Eventually, however, an associate’s true interests and talents become both clearer and more developed, and an associate will find that he or she works more and more with one practice group in a natural progression on a self-selected basis. Many matters are staffed by one or two directors and a single associate.  That dynamic means that even the newest associates have day-to-day interaction with directors, co-counsel, and clients.

The directors of the firm take it as a personal responsibility to the profession to coach the firm’s associates in all areas of their professional development.  Mentoring occurs in all of the associate’s daily interactions–whether in an impromptu office conference discussing case strategy, a review of an assignment completed by an associate, or at a local restaurant.  Finally, Ashby & Geddes purposefully hires only a small number of associates each year because, as a matter of policy, the firm extends offers only to those candidates believed to have the potential to become a director and shareholder of the firm.

Given the firm’s desire to hire from among the best and brightest, Ashby & Geddes has committed to paying its associates a salary that is competitive region-wide (if not nationwide). That salary is typically augmented by a merit-based bonus at the end of the year.  The firm also provides a number of other benefits at no cost to its associates, including comprehensive health and dental insurance (individual or family coverage as needed), participation in a 401(k) retirement plan with a substantial matching contribution by the firm, and all costs associated with the Delaware bar examination and other professional fees.

Company info

Ashby & Geddes, PA
Phone : 302-654-1888
Fax : 302-654-2067
Website : http://www.ashby-geddes.com