Entry Level and Lateral Hiring // Firm Culture and Environment // Raleigh, North Carolina // Hiring Criteria // Application Process // Salary and Benefits // CLE/Professional Dues // The Summer Program // The Interview Process // Contact Information

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Entry Level and Lateral Hiring

Wyrick Robbins is always looking for excellent, motivated attorneys and support staff. Please open the PDF for a listing of our currently available entry level and lateral attorney positions and other support staff openings.

Firm Culture and Environment

Wyrick Robbins offers a unique atmosphere, combining challenging opportunities for personal and professional growth with a casual, collegial and supportive environment. We believe in teamwork and mutual respect among and between partners, associates and staff. Although we work hard to provide our clients with excellent legal services, we also believe in balancing work with commitments to family and community.

Our office dress code is business casual every day, and both attorneys and staff address one another by first name. The Firm sponsors numerous social events throughout the year, both to strengthen our relationships and to have some fun. Activities include Friday afternoon ACC Tournament pizza parties, a holiday party for clients in December, a summer party for all attorneys and staff, and their families, outings to Durham Bulls baseball games, Carolina Hurricanes hockey games, and college football and basketball games and our very own Annual John Bryce Memorial Very Wide Open Golf Tournament. The Firm also sponsors attorney retreats to golf or seaside resorts annually in order to renew our commitment to the practice and to sharing our professional lives.

Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh is one of the three North Carolina cities, together with Durham and Chapel Hill, that makes up what is known locally as "the Triangle." In the center of the Triangle, just minutes from our office, is Research Triangle Park, one of the top science and technology centers in the country, home to such multi-national corporations as Cisco, IBM, GlaxoSmithKline, Ericsson and Nortel, as well as many emerging growth companies. The Triangle is also home to eight excellent colleges and universities, including Duke University, the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University.

The Triangle offers an attractive quality of life, with excellent public and private schools and an active cultural and arts community. In addition to the Triangle's numerous collegiate athletic venues, Raleigh's RBC Center, just minutes from our office, offers many outstanding sporting and entertainment events, and is home to the Carolina Hurricanes, a National Hockey League Team. Walnut Creek Amphitheater, an outdoor amphitheater, provides a venue for most major concert tours and other entertainment events. The BTI Performing Arts Center is the home of the North Carolina Symphony, and hosts many other musical and theatrical events as well.

Hiring Criteria

Wyrick Robbins is looking for candidates who are self-motivated and who have a strong work ethic and who share our commitment to teamwork and collegiality. We especially value excellent communications and problem-solving skills. We focus our recruiting on individuals who have excelled academically (generally in the top 25% of their law school class) and who have shown, through academics and through their personal and professional experiences, that they have the ability and commitment to provide the quality of professional services that our clients expect and deserve.

Application Process

It is the policy of Wyrick Robbins not to accept or consider unsolicited employment applications or resumes. Only those who submit an application or resume for a published, open position with the firm, who specifically identify the position for which they wish to be considered and who are qualified for that position, will be considered as applicants.

A qualified applicant's expression of interest in an open position will be considered "active" for a period of thirty (30) days following receipt by the firm. After that time, the applicant will be required to reapply for any published, open position.

Salary and Benefits

• Compensation
  Our associates are offered starting compensation that is competitive with that offered by firms of comparable size in the Raleigh market.
  
• Monthly Benefit Plan Costs
  The firm pays 100% of employee only medical, life insurance and long term disability. In addition, we offer flex credit dollars to be used to purchase dental, short term disability and family premiums for medical coverage. This credit can also be used to offset Flexible Spending Account payroll deductions. You will receive $19.78 flex credit dollars per pay period in addition to the medical employee premium. If you elect to waive medical coverage, you will receive an additional $43.67 flex credit dollars per pay period.
  
• Health Insurance
  Health insurance is provided and administered by United Healthcare.  There is a 30 day waiting/enrollment period and eligible employees must work at least 30 hours per week.  The Firm pays the cost for employee coverage. The employee pays the cost of dependent coverage.
  
• Health Club Membership / Exercise Class Reimbursement Program
  The program provides reimbursement of membership fees at a qualified health club or reimbursement for exercise class fees of up to $35 per month.  The reimbursement program is available to employees working at least 30 hours per week.
  
• Flexible Spending Plan
  The Flexible Spending Plan enables employees to pay with pre-tax dollars for certain health care expenses not reimbursed by insurance. It also allows employees to set aside pre-tax dollars from their pay to cover eligible dependent care expenses. Insurance premiums for dental, short term disability and dependent coverage in the health insurance plan may be paid with pre-tax, rather than after-tax dollars.
  
• Dental Insurance
  Dental insurance is offered by the firm on a voluntary basis thru Guardian.  "Flex credit dollars" can be used toward the purchase of this benefit.  There is a 30 day waiting/enrollment period and eligible employees must work at least 30 hours per week. 
  
• Life Insurance
  After a 30 day waiting period, group life insurance is provided equivalent to 2 times annual salary for staff working at least 30 hours per week with a maximum of $150,000, and $250,000 in coverage for associates working at least 30 hours per week.
  
• Long Term Disability Insurance
  Long-term disability insurance is provided by the Firm, equal to 60% of total income.
  There is a 30-day waiting/enrollment period, and eligible employees must work at least 30 hours per week.
  
• Short Term Disability Insurance
  Short Term Disability is available on a voluntary basis.  "Flex credit dollars" can be used toward the purchase of this benefit.  There is a 30 day waiting/enrollment period and eligible employees must work at least 30 hours per week. 
  
• Short Term Medical Leave related to Maternity or Paternity.
  All full-time employees, male and female, are entitled to two weeks paid leave due to childbirth, without doctor's orders. Female employees with authorized doctor's orders may take an additional eight weeks paid leave.
  
• Retirement - 401(k) and Profit Sharing
  Authorized contributions are automatically deducted from employees' paychecks each pay period. For non-highly compensated employees (determined under IRS rules), the Firm matches up to 1% of annual salary in contributions. Employees are eligible to participate in the 401(k) plan after a 90-day waiting period. After July 1, 2007, new employees will be automatically enrolled at a 3% deferral percentage. The money will be invested in the All-Weather Strategic Fund. The deferral can be changed or stopped by submitting paperwork to the firm's payroll department. After July 1, 2007, the 401(k) plan will also offer Roth provisions to participants.
  
  The Profit Sharing Plan is designed for the Firm to contribute on the employee's behalf into a retirement plan. If an employee has worked 1,000 hours in a calendar year and is employed on the last day of the calendar year, that employee is entitled to participate in the Profit Sharing Plan. Although profit sharing contributions are discretionary, the Firm has historically made annual contributions. After 6 full years, profit sharing funds are 100% vested.
  
• Personal Days Off
  Personal Days Off (PDO) may be used as vacation, sick time, doctor visits or other personal time off. A new full-time employee accrues PDO at the rate of 1.25 days per month, or 10 hours per month. PDO increases based on years of service as follows:
  0-2 years of service receive 15 days per year
  3-4 years of service receive 17 days per year
  5-6 years of service receive 19 days per year
  7-9 years of service receive 22 days per year
  10 years of service receive 25 days per year
  
  Staff members also receive their birthday as an additional paid day off.
  
• Parent/School Leave
  Non-exempt employees are granted a maximum of 8 hours per year paid time off to attend or otherwise be involved at their child/children's school.
  
• Holidays
  The Firm observes 9 paid flexible holidays each year.
  
• FMLA (Family & Medical Leave Act)
  After 12 months of full-time service, an employee is eligible for up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the guidelines of the FMLA. (See the Employee Handbook for details.)
  
• Other Types of Leave
  Funeral Leave - A maximum of 3 days of paid leave will be granted for the death of an immediate family member.
  Jury Duty - An employee who is required to serve as a juror will receive regular pay for each workday missed, minus any jury pay, while on jury duty to a maximum of 15 workdays.

CLE/Professional Dues

CLE annual allowance

$1,000 for Associate
$1,750 for Of Counsel
$2,500 for Partner

Wake County Bar Association
NC Bar Association
NC State Bar
American Bar Association
10th Judicial District

The Summer Program

Our Summer Program provides second year law students with an opportunity to experience firsthand how legal problems are solved, tasks accomplished and clients served. We generally invite selected summer associates to intern with us for one-half of the summer, or six to eight weeks. Each summer associate is assigned a pair of mentors. The summer associate and his or her mentors are together responsible for crafting a summer program that combines hands-on participation and opportunities to observe our attorneys in action, in client meetings, in negotiations and in court. We also encourage each summer associate to customize his or her summer program in accordance with his or her particular interests in various practice areas of the Firm.
We provide prompt feedback on each summer associates progress and success in meeting expectations and accomplishing tasks. We also sponsor social outings throughout the summer so that our summer associates can get to know our attorneys on a more casual level. Wyrick Robbins looks to its summer associate class for entry-level hiring the following year.

The Interview Process

Our summer associates and entry level associates are selected from candidates who either apply for an on-campus interview at selected schools or who contact us directly. Selected candidates will then interview at our office with attorneys in a series of twenty-minute interviews with two attorneys in each interview. If a candidate's schedule permits, we may also host the candidate's lunch or dinner with selected attorneys. Following these "call back" interviews, candidates selected to receive an offer will be notified by telephone and by mail, generally within two weeks.

Lateral interviews are generally conducted in the same manner as the summer associate and entry level call back interviews. We try to introduce the interviewing attorney to a variety of our attorneys, both partners and associates, as well as to the attorneys in the practice group for which the candidate is interviewing. Lateral candidates may also be asked to return to the office for a follow up interview and/or a lunch or dinner with selected attorneys. Candidates selected to receive an offer will be notified by telephone and by mail.

Wyrick Robbins conducts its on-campus recruiting at selected law schools annually, each Fall.

Contact Information

Attorneys & Summer Associates Lisa D. Inman, Recruiting Coordinator Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP 4101 Lake Boone Trail, Suite 300 Raleigh, North Carolina 27607 Telephone : (919) 781-4000 Facsimile: (919) 781-4865 e-mail: linman@wyrick.com

Support Staff Debbie L. Zievis Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP 4101 Lake Boone Trail, Suite 300 Raleigh, North Carolina 27607 Telephone : (919) 781-4000 Facsimile: (919) 781-4865 e-mail: dzievis@wyrick.com

This summary of benefits is provided for informational purposes only. The plan documents and the Wyrick Robbins Employee Handbook will provide more accurate and complete descriptions of these benefits.