Legal Summer Associate - Summer 2025, Purchase, NY

Job description
Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Legal Summer Associate - Summer 2025, Purchase, NY

Mastercard is seeking first year law students to participate in our summer legal internship program. Selected candidates will spend the summer with the legal teams that are responsible for providing comprehensive, end-to-end, strategic legal counsel and support to Mastercard’s business units and providing cutting edge products and services to Mastercard’s customers and cardholders.
Role Description:
Mastercard’s law department offers an engaging and paid legal summer internship that provides talented, first-year law students from accredited law schools an opportunity to gain exceptional experience, build relationships and exposure across a variety of practice areas. Summer fellows will work under the supervision of attorneys in Mastercard’s law department and will benefit from training and feedback on substantive assignments, mentoring and professional development.
About you:
Mastercard seeks to attract talented, first-year law students from accredited law schools for its summer legal internship program. Successful applicants will have demonstrated superior academic achievement and will have distinguished themselves within their law school and communities. Each candidate will be evaluated individually. You must be enrolled in good standing at an ABA accredited law school and be authorized to work in the United States.
We encourage candidates who meet the following criteria to apply:
•  Inquisitive, with a positive attitude and willingness to learn;
•  Demonstrated academic achievement and in good academic standing;
•  Strong legal research, writing and analytical skills
•  Excellent written and oral communication skills;
•  Demonstrated leadership abilities;
•  Excellent interpersonal, team and collaboration skills;
•  Ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment; and
•  Have completed your first year of law school.
Application Materials and Process:
•   Please submit a copy of your resume,
•   Undergraduate and law school transcripts (unofficial),
•   A brief personal statement addressing either obstacles you have overcome in pursuit of your legal career or examples of your leadership abilities, and
•   one (1) letter of recommendation
•   Please include all requirement in one combined pdf file no later than, April 25, 2025.
•   You will be contacted if you are selected for an interview
Compensation: $19,250

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

Purchase, New York: $48,000 - $67,000 USD Read more