Summer Associates are hired to support project work aligned to one of BRG’s practice areas, though there may be flexibility to work across multiple practice areas. Candidates can select a preferred practice area as part of the application process. You can find more information about them below.
1. Antitrust & Competition: Experts in our antitrust practice apply learning from industrial organization, econometrics and microeconomic theory to provide testimony to counsel, corporations, and governments in matters involving antitrust litigation and merger reviews. Our experts and academic affiliates have testified in some of the largest and most significant antitrust matters of the past two decades, including antitrust actions involving platforms and multi-sided markets, automobile manufacturers, insurance companies, financial markets (e.g., LIBOR and foreign exchange) and other industries. Our project teams frequently evaluate industry conduct and assess antitrust liability, calculate damages from anticompetitive conduct and build simulation models to understand the impacts of proposed mergers.
2. Business Insurance Claims (BIC): We provide immediate and strategic guidance to policyholders following a catastrophe. Our BIC experts meticulously analyze financial data and operational records, develop robust financial models, and prepare comprehensive, well-documented insurance claims, accelerating resolution and maximizing claim payments.
3. Construction: We specialize in data analytics, litigation support, claims/dispute analysis, scheduling/logistics management and expert witness testimony within the construction, engineering, and architectural fields. Our team supports clients through budget and payment advisory, loss assessment and valuation, estimations and takeoffs, and insurance and damages claim valuations. We also specialize in providing our clients with budgetary and payment oversight, project management recommendations, project scheduling generation, and constructability and viability analyses for both upcoming and ongoing construction projects.
4. Commercial Disputes: We combine exceptional analytical and accounting skills and industry-specific knowledge to provide comprehensive support throughout the legal process. From initial case assessment and in-depth damages analysis to litigation support and expert testimony in hearings, trials, arbitration, regulatory proceedings, and mediation, we deliver data-driven insights to secure favorable outcomes.
5. Consumer Protection, Product Liability & Environment: Our experts are regularly engaged in matters involving claims of consumer fraud, product liability, false advertising, data privacy and data breach, and alleged violations of environmental and natural resource law. Associates in this area employ techniques from microeconomic theory, econometrics, marketing and environmental and resource economics to address in class certification, liability and damages.
6. Energy & Climate: We help clients across the global energy value chain address complex strategic, commercial, financial, market, regulatory, and dispute-related issues. Our work spans power and utilities, oil and gas, renewables, storage, advanced nuclear, eMobility, hydrogen and low-carbon fuels, carbon management, infrastructure, and the broader energy transition. We conduct rigorous market research, economic modeling, and detailed reporting, helping clients address legal and business challenges.
7. Financial Institutions Advisory: We are a trusted advisor to leading financial services companies. We work to help clients meet and execute strategies related to risk and regulation, compliance, financial crime, innovations in technology, accounting, cryptocurrency and blockchain, business process outsourcing, the Bank Secrecy Act, anti-money laundering, lookbacks, data quality, and evolving customer experience expectations.
8. Healthcare Advisory: As healthcare organizations navigate increasing reimbursement pressure, workforce challenges, regulatory and enforcement complexity, and rapid technological change, we work alongside executive teams and governing bodies to identify opportunities, implement practical solutions, and deliver measurable, lasting results. Our integrated team combines deep industry expertise across strategy, revenue management, operational excellence, clinical transformation, and technology and AI with the comprehensive capabilities of a global advisory firm and the agility, senior attention, and client service of a boutique consultancy.
9. Healthcare Analytics and Disputes: We tackle complex legal and operational challenges in the healthcare industry using data-driven, objective, and innovative approaches. Our experts lead advisory, risk management, and litigation matters, combining deep healthcare industry expertise with cutting edge research, analytics and financial modeling.
**10. Intellectual Property:**Our intellectual property experts and academic affiliates regularly testify on damages, trademark confusion, irreparable harm and commercial success. Many of our matters require expertise in consumer behavior, judgment and decision-making and our project teams work on some of the world’s largest patent infringement, trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and copyright infringement cases. Associates in this practice regularly build econometric models of market prices, analyze survey data and the results of choice experiments and assist with the preparation of expert reports and other client deliverables.
Summer Associates will primarily be hired in locations like Boston, Washington DC, Chicago, New York, Houston, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. There are also a limited number of opportunities in smaller offices like Tampa and Pittsburgh. Summer Associates are expected to work in the office five days per week to take full advantage of the mentorship, collaboration, and relationship-building opportunities that support their professional growth. Remote roles for practices that require frequent travel to client sites are also available.