Saya & Associates
Responsibility earlier than you expect.
A deliberately small practice where the person who researches the question usually drafts the note and attends the hearing.
A small practice, deliberately.
This is not a firm where juniors spend two years in a document room. The practice is small on purpose, which means the person who researches a question is usually the person who drafts the note and sits in the hearing.
The trade-off is real: less structure, more responsibility, earlier. That suits some people and not others.
Fewer credentials, more judgment.
Writing that can be read by a non-lawyer
If advice cannot be acted on by the person who has to make the decision, it has not been given. Clear writing is the core skill here.
Comfort with unfamiliar ground
Matters cross from contract to regulation to courtroom. The useful instinct is to find the primary source rather than wait to be told.
Interest in how technology actually works
Much of the practice concerns data, systems and AI. You do not need to write code, but you do need to want to understand the thing you are advising on.
Care with detail
Dates, citations, figures and filings. The work is unforgiving of approximation.
How to apply.
There is no standing vacancy list. Positions — including internships and assessment periods for law students — open as the practice grows, and applications are read whether or not something is advertised.
Write to [email protected] with a CV and a short writing sample: a note, a memo or a section of a brief you drafted yourself. Tell us which part of the practice interests you and why.
Applications are acknowledged. Where there is a fit, we will ask for a conversation before anything else.