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Chart Your Journey at Secretariat From a collaborative culture to teammates who will always be by your side, find a career that will grow with you. Deliver your impact at Secretariat. ABOUT THE FIRM Secretariat is a consulting firm that helps companies, law firms, and organizations solve complex business problems—often when there is a dispute, investigation, major project challenge, or high-stakes decision involved.
At Secretariat, you’ll work on some of the most important legal, risk, and regulatory challenges facing businesses around the world. From your first day, you’ll be part of a fast-growing team of smart, curious, and driven people who enjoy solving complex problems. You’ll learn by working alongside experienced professionals and contributing to projects for leading law firms, global companies, and major institutions.
Our teams collaborate across offices and disciplines, bringing energy, fresh thinking, and commitment to every client challenge. We invest in your growth through hands-on experience, mentorship, professional development, recognition, and a culture that values diverse perspectives. Start your career where your work matters. Make your impact at Secretariat. ABOUT OUR ECONOMICS TEAM Secretariat’s Economics team helps clients understand the numbers behind major business and legal questions.
As part of our casework, our team members may analyze the impact of a merger on competition, estimate company losses in a dispute due to patent infringement or stolen trade secrets, determine employee fair compensation, or study the effect of market rules and regulations on businesses. Much of our work supports complex litigation, regulatory investigations, and business disputes, where our economists analyze evidence and help explain economic issues to courts, regulators, and decision-makers.
RESPONSIBILITIES Launch your career by putting your classroom skills to work on real cases, real data, and real business challenges. As an Associate, you will use your curiosity, analytical mindset, and communication skills to help clients navigate high-stakes decisions while learning directly from experienced experts in economics, intellectual property, finance, and litigation consulting. Associates play an active role on project teams, working under the supervision of experienced case managers and alongside recent graduates and PhD economists to address complex business challenges.
This opportunity is ideal for students who enjoy asking “why,” digging into data, solving puzzles, researching new industries, and writing reports that turn complex information into a clear story. The skills you develop as an Associate can support a wide range of career paths in consulting, economics, finance, analytics, and beyond. If you are excited by economics, finance, math, data, or coding—and want a role where you can grow quickly, contribute early, and see the impact of your work—Secretariat is the place to build that momentum.
What you’ll get to do: Dive into real-world data to uncover what is happening in companies, markets, and industries Support quantitative analysis, including gathering, processing, and analyzing data, and conduct qualitative market and industry research Explore business issues that go beyond the textbook by researching companies, competitors, and industries Turn numbers, research, and analysis into insights that clients and legal teams can act on Create clear visuals and presentations that bring complex ideas to life Build hands-on experience with tools like Excel, R, Stata, or Python QUALIFICATIONS Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in economics, finance, mathematics, statistics, data science or a related field Able to start between January 2027 and September 2027 Minimum GPA of 3.5 Comfortable using Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and experience with Stata, Python, or R Enjoys solving problems, thinking logically, and using analysis to support recommendations Has experience working with data through cour