Legal Intern - Summer 2025
Legal Intern - Summer 2025
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About Us
Our purpose at Avient Corporation is to be an innovator of materials solutions that help our customers succeed while enabling a sustainable world.
Innovation goes far beyond materials science; its powered by the passion creativity and diverse expertise of 9000 professionals worldwide. Whether youre a finance wizard a tech enthusiast an operational powerhouse an HR changemaker or a trailblazer in materials development youll find your place at Avient.
Join our global team and help shape the future with sustainable solutions that transform possibilities into realities. Your unique perspective could be the key to our next breakthrough!
Job Summary
Avient is seeking a Law Clerk for summer 2024. The Law Clerk will support the Corporate Legal Department. The ideal candidate will be local to the Cleveland area and able to work full time during the summer months (MayAugust) This role provides an opportunity to gain exposure to many aspects of our business provides firsthand knowledge of how an inhouse legal department operates and allows you to put into practice the legal research writing and analytical skills youve learned. The Law Clerk can also participate in a companywide summer intern program that promotes professional development networking and community involvement.
Essential Functions
Assist all members of the Corporate Legal Department with projects in a wide variety of areas for example contract review and revision negotiation support and special projects
Work on legal projects in areas to include due diligence mergers and acquisitions support corporate governance employment and labor relations intellectual property commercial and antitrust
Analyze and summarize detailed legal documents to include contracts; recommend strategy where applicable
Research and analyze the law on complex issues and write memos as necessary/requested
Other projects as assigned.
Education and Experience
Bachelors degree required
Currently pursuing a law degree 1L and 2L)
Minimum 3.0 GPA required 3.5 highly preferred
Previous work experience a plus but not required
Additional Qualifications
Ability to work independently with strong time management and organizational skills
Analytical skills with strong attention to detail
Effective research and writing skills
Strong team orientation and the ability to work within a collaborative environment
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Desire to learn and develop within the legal field
Requires excellent computer skills (Microsoft Word Excel and PowerPoint)
Physical Demands
The characteristics listed below are representative of the physical and environmental demands required by an individual to successfully perform the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
Requires standing and sitting for prolonged periods of time talking and listening.
Typical work is in an office environment where the noise level is low to moderate.
Avient Leadership Behaviors
We believe that all of our global employees are leaders and that the six most important behaviors for driving our strategy and culture are the same no matter if an employee is a leader of self a leader of others or a leader of the business.
By playing to win acting customer centric driving innovation and profitable growth collaborating seamlessly across Avient and motivating and inspiring and developing others and yourself you will accelerate your ability to achieve Avients strategic goals to meet our customer needs and to accomplish your career goals.
At Avient we believe a wide variety of thoughts ideas and backgrounds gives us the creativity to be successful in a rapidly changing world. In support of this we stress equality of opportunity for all qualified individuals in accordance with applicable laws. Decisions on hiring promotion development compensation or advancement are based solely on a persons qualifications abilities experience and performance.
Avient is an equal opportunity employer. We maintain a policy of nondiscrimination in providing equal employment to all qualified employees and candidates regardless of race sex sexual orientation gender identity age color religion national origin disability genetic information protected veterans status or other legally protected classification in accordance with applicable federal state and local law. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to complete an online application please contact the Avient HR Team by emailing
Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Intern
