Clerkships
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Biglaw, Bonuses, Clerkships, Money, Skaddenfreude
$50k Club: Weil Makes It the Fab Four
It didn’t take long for the $50k club to gain another member! Multiple sources tell us that Weil, Gotshal & Manges decided last night to match the $50,000 clerkship bonus being offered by Sullivan & Cromwell, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and Paul Weiss. Who’ll be the next to join this exalted group? Programming Note: With […] -
Biglaw, Bonuses, Clerkships, Money, Skaddenfreude
Skaddenfreude: Paul Weiss Joins the $50k Club!
Multiple sources have just confirmed to ATL that Paul Weiss has matched the $50,000 clerkship bonus paid by Sullivan & Cromwell and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. The head of recruiting called people with outstanding offers today to make the announcement. From a source: PLEASE post this news so that it will continue to put pressure […] - Sponsored
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Biglaw, Bonuses, Clerkships, Money, Skaddenfreude
Skaddenfreude: Wilmer Raises Its Clerkship Bonus
In the comments to our last post on clerkship bonuses, there was a claim that WilmerHale has raised its clerkship bonus to $35,000. That claim is true. This email went out yesterday: From: Dunbar, AndriannaDate: Apr 19, 2007 5:52 PMSubject: Clerkship Bonus UpdateTo: As part of our commitment to providing attorney compensation that is at […]
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Biglaw, Bonuses, Clerkships, Job Searches, Money
Skaddenfreude: Simpson Matches S&C's $50,000 Clerkship Bonus
Apparently Sullivan & Cromwell is no longer the only Biglaw shop paying a $50,000 clerkship bonus. According to multiple sources, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett — which in January kicked off the latest round of base salary increases for associates — has followed suit. If S&C were the only member of the $50K club, competitor firms […] -
Biglaw, Clerkships, Money, Skaddenfreude
Skaddenfreude: A Clerkship Bonus Special Report
This is the rather belated update to our earlier report on the clerkship bonus policies of large law firms. We apologize for the delay, and we thank you for your patience and your tips. A summary of our findings: 1. No large law firm has matched the new Sullivan & Cromwell clerkship bonus of $50,000 […] -
Biglaw, Clerkships, Money, Skaddenfreude
Skaddenfreude: A Special Report on Clerkship Bonuses
Last week, we asked you for information about the clerkship bonus policies of large law firms. We also made a few phone calls and sent out a few emails, to obtain information from the law firms themselves. A summary of our findings: 1. No large law firm has matched the new Sullivan & Cromwell clerkship […] -
Biglaw, Bonuses, Clerkships, Money, Skaddenfreude
Skaddenfreude: Clerkship Bonus Information, Please
On the heels of Sullivan & Cromwell’s announcement of its new $50,000 clerkship bonus, we will endeavor to find out what other large law firms are doing on this front. If you know your law firm’s current clerkship bonus policy, please email us (subject line: “Clerkship Bonus”). We will serve as a clearinghouse for clerkship […] -
Biglaw, Clerkships, Money, Skaddenfreude
Sullivan & Cromwell: Great Clerkship Bonus, Crappy Gift Basket
Earlier this week, we wrote about Sullivan & Cromwell’s new $50,000 clerkship bonus. We have confirmed this news with multiple sources, so you can take it to the bank. This message about the S&C clerkship bonus bump included an amusing digression: “You may be interested to know that S&C just called its incoming associates who […] - Sponsored
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Blogging, Clerkships, Federal Judges
And You Thought We Were Bad
We find this hard to believe, but there are people out there who are even more obsessed than we are with law clerks. Like this person. The lists are not complete, and the information could be presented in a more user-friendly fashion. But we suspect that some of you will find this blog very interesting […] -
Biglaw, Bonuses, Clerkships, Money, Skaddenfreude
Skaddenfreude: Sullivan & Cromwell's Clerkship Bonus
Word on the street is that Sullivan & Cromwell is now paying a $50,000 clerkship bonus. In addition to Greedy Clerks, the news has surfaced in comments on this blog, and we’ve also heard about it via email. So the tip seems fairly reliable to us. We first learned the news from a tipster with […] -
Biglaw, Bonuses, Clerkships, Dahlia Lithwick, Money, SCOTUS, Skaddenfreude, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerks: Do They Live Up to the Hype?
Or, perhaps more importantly, their $200,000 signing bonuses? That’s the question Dahlia Lithwick takes on in her recent Jurisprudence column for Slate. The sums in question are even larger than Lithwick notes. She writes: That will be [a] $200,000 [bonus] on top of a starting salary of $145,000 to $160,000. Which adds up to an […] -
9th Circuit, Airplanes / Aviation, Alex Kozinski, Blogging, Clerkships, Federal Judges, Judicial Divas, Kids, Marsha Berzon, Screw-Ups
A Response to Judge Alex Kozinski
Some time ago, we posted an anecdote about the family travel mishaps of Judge Marsha Berzon, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Many ATL readers enjoyed the story. But Judge Berzon’s colleague, Judge Alex Kozinski — one of the federal judiciary’s most brilliant thinkers and talented writers — was less pleased. […] -
Biglaw, Clerkships, Money, Skaddenfreude
Skaddenfreude: Clerkship Bonuses, and End of Day Open Thread
We have to step away for a bit. So we’ll do what we typically do under such circumstances, and set up an open thread. Earlier today, a number of you expressed an interest in chatting about Biglaw clerkship bonuses. Feel free to use this thread as a forum for that conversation. You can compare notes […]
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9th Circuit, Airplanes / Aviation, Alex Kozinski, Clerkships, Federal Judges, Kids
Flying the Friendly, Federal Judicial Skies: An Open Letter from Judge Alex Kozinski
Yesterday we put up a post about the mishaps of a federal judge and her family on a recent plane trip. You can read that post by clicking here. A number of you found it amusing. But not everyone was so pleased. This morning we received an email from Judge Alex Kozinski, of the U.S. […] -
Alex Kozinski, Blogging, Clerkships, Douglas Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
SCOTUS Clerk Hiring News: An Errata Sheet
Yesterday we put up a list of all the Supreme Court clerk hiring news that we have so far (for October Term 2007). We will update this post, or republish the list in a full post, as we receive more information. After we put up the list, we received several corrections and additions (for which […] -
Aditya Bamzai, Anthony Kronman, Antonin Scalia, Clerkships, John Bash, Rachel Kovner, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, Sandra Day O'Connor, SCOTUS, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
More SCOTUS Clerk Hiring News: October Term 2007 Hires
We’re continuing to profile the current class of Supreme Court law clerks. We’ve written up the Alito clerks for October Term 2006 already, and we’re working on profiles of the Breyer clerks. (We reiterate our prior request for tips about the SGB crew, especially Thiru Vignarajah. We probably have enough material about the other three.) […] -
3rd Circuit, Book Deals, Books, Clerkships, Dolores Sloviter, Judicial Divas, Saira Rao
A "Devil Wears Prada" for the Law Clerk Set
Saira Rao, who wrote the New York Post article we discussed this morning, has a juicy debut novel coming out this summer. Check out the blurb for Chambermaid: The devil holds a gavel in this wickedly entertaining debut novel about a young attorney’s eventful year clerking for a federal judge. Sheila Raj is a recent […] -
3rd Circuit, Clerkships, Department of Justice, Federalist Society, Kids, New Jersey, Office of Legal Policy, Pets, Pictures, Religion, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Clerks Are Fair Game, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks, UVA Law
Justice Alito's OT 2006 Law Clerks
Sorry it has taken us so long. As promised months ago, we now begin our series profiling current Supreme Court clerks (aka the “October Term 2006” or “OT 2006” law clerks). We’ll be going chambers by chambers, starting with the most junior justice. Here are the four law clerks to Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr.: […] -
Canada, Clerkships, Holidays and Seasons, Tax Law, Weirdness
Are the Canadians Better Than Us at Everything?
Last week we asked you for funny Halloween-related stories, including descriptions of wacky costumes or festivities. We were disappointed by your responses. So we had to turn to our neighbor to the north. These days, Canada is ascendant. Canadians are beating out Americans for jobs at top U.S. law firms. They have Supreme Court justices […] -
Clarence Thomas, Clerkships, Diarmuid O'Scannlain, Hotties, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
SCOTUS Clerk Hiring Watch: Justice Thomas Into OT 2009
While we were in Portland, Oregon, for the law clerk reunion in celebration of Ninth Circuit Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain’s 20th anniversary on the bench, we took oodles and oodles of pictures. We shared two of them with you yesterday. We’ll be publishing more photographs from the reunion in the near future. Unfortunately, it’s taking us […]