Associate - Food, Drug, and Medical Device Regulatory

THE FIRM: Sidley Austin LLP, with offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia and more than 1,800 lawyers, is one of the largest law firms in the world. Our diversified global practice encompasses the entire spectrum of corporate, transactional, litigation and governmental matters. Nationwide and throughout the world, Sidley Austin LLP prides itself on the breadth of its practice and the quality of its representation of an extraordinary client base, including many of the world's leading industrial enterprises, financial institutions, professional firms, health care providers and media and communications companies, as well as governmental and public entities and sovereign nations. THE WASHINGTON, D.C. OFFICE: Founded in 1963-and celebrating over 50 years in the nation's capital-Sidley’s Washington, D.C. office has over 300 lawyers engaged in traditional Washington litigation and regulatory practices often involving significant issues of public policy. Our Washington, D.C. office handles a wide range of litigation and regulatory issues in over two dozen discrete areas of law. Key practice areas include Appellate, International Trade/Arbitration, Healthcare, Life Scien...ces, FDA Regulatory and Enforcement, Intellectual Property, White Collar and Internal Investigations, Commercial Litigation, Environmental, Energy, Communications Regulatory, and Privacy, Data Protection and Information Law. The cutting-edge matters on which our D.C. lawyers work — predominantly litigation-focused — across this broad diversity of practice areas often bring us into contact, either as adversaries or otherwise, with the federal government. Led by Managing Partner Mark Hopson, the office has a strong and longstanding bipartisan tradition of public service. Many of our lawyers have served in high-level government positions including in the White House Counsel’s office of the last several Administrations, the Department of Justice, and federal agencies such as HHS, EPA, DOE, and FDA. In addition, more than 120 DC lawyers have joined us following federal and state clerkships across the country, including 20 who served as U.S. Supreme Court clerks.