Supreme Court Clerk Bonuses Hit An Incredible New High

These signing bonuses are GIGANTIC!

onAugust 22, 2017 at 11:42 AMAugust 22, 2017 at 11:47 AM

Our value pitch here is we’re going to recruit and continue to recruit and train the best lawyers of this generation. If we think they’ve got the talent and the work ethic to succeed, we are more than willing to pay the market.

— Name partner Sean Eskovitz of trial boutique Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz, commenting on the firm’s decision to offer $350,000 signing bonuses to former Supreme Court clerks. Until now, the market rate for SCOTUS clerkship bonuses has been somewhere in the range of $300,000 to $330,000.

Although Wilkinson Walsh was first founded in 2016, the firm is no stranger to paying its associates big salaries and even bigger bonuses. The lucky Supreme Court clerks who will receive this enormous signing bonus are Elizabeth “Betsy” Henthorne (who clerked for Justice Kagan) and John James “JJ” Snidow (who clerked for Justice Kennedy).

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