Junior Tax Associate

###Job Description### Summary:Fenwick & West has one of the nation's leading tax practices. The tax group's sophisticated and cutting-edge practice serves clients throughout the United States and across the globe through planning, controversy, and transactional tax work. Fenwick’s tax group has an exciting client base and has advised and represented more than 100 of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as hundreds of startups, investment funds, and private companies.

The group is a thought leader in rapidly developing areas of federal tax law, including developments relating to blockchain, AI, and other emerging technologies. Several tax partners teach international, corporate, and blockchain tax classes at Stanford Law School and UC Berkeley School of Law. Fenwick is deeply committed to training and mentoring the next generation of legal professionals.

Associates can expect meaningful responsibility, direct client contact, one-on-one mentorship with partners, and sustained professional development in a collaborative, growth-focused environment.

###experience### to join our Seattle Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Boston, New York, Santa Monica, or Washington, D.C. office. The ideal candidate will have some corporate, M&A, and international tax

###experience### at a law firm. Current judicial clerks are also welcome to apply. Superior academic credentials, intellectual rigor, excellent oral, written and interpersonal

###skills### are a must. We require that the candidate be barred in the state of the office they are submitting their application for or are eligible to sit/waive into the next bar exam in that state. Please apply online and include a cover letter, resume, and law school transcript.

###Benefits### and Compensation Details: At Fenwick, we believe that our partners and employees are our most important asset. Helping you and your families achieve and maintain good health - physical, emotional, and financial - is the reason we offer a comprehensive benefit program. We provide

###benefits### to eligible employees under plans such as Healthcare, Life Insurance, Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Wellbeing. Except as otherwise required by law, temporary employees are generally not entitled to these benefits.

###qualifications### of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and if applicable, the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. A discretionary bonus for eligible employees may also be available based on performance.

###benefits### and discretionary bonus will be made available upon request. Our Story For more than five decades, Fenwick & West has helped some of the world’s most recognized companies become, and remain, market leaders. From emerging enterprises to large public corporations, our clients are leaders in the technology, life sciences and cleantech sectors and are fundamentally changing the world through rapid innovation.

Having worked alongside such progressive and cutting edge companies for so long, our culture has come to reflect the entrepreneurial spirit of our client base. Unlike traditional law firms, we move at our clients’ speed and have earned the reputation as a go-to law firm for growing companies that need insightful, strategic counsel to help tackle the challenging issues that arise when the law cannot keep up with their pace of innovation.

With the same passion for excellence and innovation reflected in our client base, our firm is making revolutionary changes to the practice of law through substantial investments in proprietary technology tools and processes. Our clients demand—and deserve—new ways to receive best-in-class legal services more effectively. At Fenwick, we are proud to be shaping our legal services to do just that.

We are proud to have been named one of the Best Places to Work in the Bay Area for the twelfth year.

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