About the Collaborative
The LiTD Collaborative is a cross-company legal internship program among 26 leading technology companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Boston. We provide a vibrant ten-week summer experience for approximately 45 accomplished, first-year law students, with each tech company hosting the student(s) for five weeks and a partner law firm hosting the student(s) for an additional five weeks. Inspired by eBay's legal internship program, the Law in Technology Diversity Collaborative was launched in 2018 by Patricia Svilik and David Pilson. By collaborating across companies, we are able to scale this enriching experience to more law students, and develop heartfelt mentoring by attorneys and alumni across teams. We vastly expand the students' networks to support and sustain them in the legal profession.
The program incorporates the following elements:
We view this program as an opportunity to introduce high-potential law students to rare in-house technology company experience and also create a pipeline for companies and firms to cultivate diverse talent. For our inaugural summer program in 2019, seven tech companies and 12 law firms participated to provide internships to 16 exceptional law students. They were eBay, Facebook, HPE, LendingClub, Symantec (now NortonLifeLock), Turo, and Uber. The 14 law firms were Baker McKenzie; Boies Schiller Flexner; Cooley; Covington & Burling; Fenwick & West; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Hogan Lovells; Mayer Brown; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; Morrison Foerster; Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; and Perkins Coie.
In our second year, 2020, we more than doubled our list of participating tech companies to 15, including eBay, GoPro, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP, Intel, Intuit, LendingClub, Lyft, NortonLifeLock, Segment, Snap, Thumbtack, Turo, Uber Technologies, Inc., and Zynga. Together, we partnered with 18 top-tier law firms to provide this awesome opportunity to 25 law students!
For the 2021 and 2022 summers, we grew to 26 tech companies and 22 law firms, and hosted a class of nearly 45 law students! For the 2023 summer program, we will be recruiting from the following law schools:
Working together, we are a cross-company team of heartfelt attorneys and legal professionals passionately collaborating to give these exceptional students the work experience, resume credentials, mentoring, networks, and confidence to succeed. Join us!
The program incorporates the following elements:
- Exposure to legal issues facing the tech company;
- Opportunity to work on legal projects supervised by in-house and outside counsel, experiencing firsthand the difference in how legal advice is crafted between both legal environments; and
- Cultivation of meaningful networking opportunities, both vertically with attorneys in the various legal departments and firms involved, and horizontally with legal interns at the other companies in the Collaborative.
We view this program as an opportunity to introduce high-potential law students to rare in-house technology company experience and also create a pipeline for companies and firms to cultivate diverse talent. For our inaugural summer program in 2019, seven tech companies and 12 law firms participated to provide internships to 16 exceptional law students. They were eBay, Facebook, HPE, LendingClub, Symantec (now NortonLifeLock), Turo, and Uber. The 14 law firms were Baker McKenzie; Boies Schiller Flexner; Cooley; Covington & Burling; Fenwick & West; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Hogan Lovells; Mayer Brown; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; Morrison Foerster; Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; and Perkins Coie.
In our second year, 2020, we more than doubled our list of participating tech companies to 15, including eBay, GoPro, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP, Intel, Intuit, LendingClub, Lyft, NortonLifeLock, Segment, Snap, Thumbtack, Turo, Uber Technologies, Inc., and Zynga. Together, we partnered with 18 top-tier law firms to provide this awesome opportunity to 25 law students!
For the 2021 and 2022 summers, we grew to 26 tech companies and 22 law firms, and hosted a class of nearly 45 law students! For the 2023 summer program, we will be recruiting from the following law schools:
- American University Washington College of Law
- Howard University School of Law
- Loyola Law School
- Northeastern University School of Law
- Santa Clara University School of Law
- Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University
- UC Berkeley School of Law
- UC Davis School of Law
- UC Hastings College of the Law
- UC Irvine School of Law
- University of Miami School of Law
Working together, we are a cross-company team of heartfelt attorneys and legal professionals passionately collaborating to give these exceptional students the work experience, resume credentials, mentoring, networks, and confidence to succeed. Join us!