2026 1L Summer Associate

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

2026 Overview 
Summer associates will be immersed in AbbVie’s in-house legal and compliance teams, learning about and handling real-world matters under the supervision of AbbVie attorneys and compliance officers. Summer associates will work with one of the following departments within the in-house legal or compliance team for the duration of the summer internship:  

Patent Legal Academy 

Work on a wide variety of patent prosecution and IP (patent, trade secret) litigation-related tasks, which may include drafting materials for U.S. and foreign patent prosecution, listing patents in the FDA’s Orange Book, analyzing freedom-to-operate issues, addressing contractual issues, evaluating issues related to biopharmaceutical patent and trade secret litigation, and participating in strategy meetings with in-house and outside prosecution and litigation counsel.

Clinical R&D Legal Academy 

Work on a wide range of clinical-trial related legal and regulatory matters in support of AbbVie’s therapeutic pipeline. Provides support for AbbVie’s global clinical research-based pharmaceutical business, including: clinical trial design; executing transactions required to get a clinical trial up and running, conducting legal analysis relating to patient-related matters such as informed consent, recruitment and retention strategies, and integration of novel technologies into AbbVie’s clinical trials; and providing global regulatory advice relating to AbbVie’s pipeline programs.

Corporate Legal

Work in key corporate legal areas such as corporate financing, securities compliance and disclosure, compensation and benefits, and corporate gov