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Clerkships, Fabulosity, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Say Hello to 2013
First an earthquake, and now a hurricane. If the world is coming to an end, let's go out doing what we love: talking about Supreme Court clerks. Since our last round-up, which was over a month ago, there have been a few new hires. And some of them are for the distant future -- namely, October Term 2013. Hopefully the world will still be around by then.... -
Clerkships, Fabulosity, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: The Official List for October Term 2011
On Monday we published an update on Supreme Court law clerk hiring. In the wake of that update, we received a veritable cornucopia of tips and news of new hires. The most welcome information came from the Supreme Court itself, so let's take a look! - Sponsored
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Clerkships, Diarmuid O'Scannlain, Fabulosity, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: The Changing of the Guard
At One First Street, home of the Supreme Court of the United States (aka "SCOTUS"), clerk classes are transitioning. July is when outgoing Supreme Court clerks leave the marble palace -- do pass go, do collect a $250,000 signing bonus -- and their replacements arrive. Interested in having a look at July's update on Supreme Court law clerk hiring?
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Clerkships, Fabulosity, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Over Half of October Term 2011 Clerks Have Been Hired
With a new Term underway, the Supreme Court geeks among you might want to check out, and sign up for, FantasySCOTUS. You can read about it here and register here. (There’s also an educational version for the kiddies.) The SCOTUS geeks among you might also be interested in the continued action on the law clerk […] -
Clarence Thomas, Clerkships, Elena Kagan, Feeder Judges, John Roberts, Politics, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: New Term, New Hires
Monday, October 4, marked the start of a new Supreme Court Term — October Term 2010, to be more specific. It also marked the first day of oral arguments for the newest member of the Court — Lady Kaga, aka Associate Justice Elena Kagan. As Justice White famously observed, a new justice makes a new […] -
Clerkships, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Immigration, Job Searches, Law Schools
Clerkship Application Season: Open Thread(And a tricky issue re: non-citizen law clerks.)
It’s that time of the year again: clerkship application season. Here is the requisite open thread for discussion, where you can trade news and gossip about which courts and judges are hiring, which ones are done, which clerkships are great, and which clerkships you’ll hate. Pursuant to the 2010 Law Clerk Hiring Plan for federal […] -
Clerkships, Fabulosity, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Law Schools, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: The Official List for October Term 2010
Earlier this month, we provided you with a fairly complete listing of Supreme Court law clerks for October Term 2010. The OT 2010 clerks are starting up at the Court this month, staggered over a few weeks. To get a sense of what they’ll be working on this summer, see this SCOTUSblog post, by Lisa […] -
Clerkships, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Job Searches
Clerkship Application Season: D-Day
It’s the afternoon of Thursday, September 17. Do you know where your clerkship is? Today is the first day, pursuant to the Law Clerk Hiring Plan for 2009 — which some judges follow, and some don’t — when interviews may be held and offers made. The plan even specifies a time of day for interviews […] - Sponsored
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Peering Into The Crystal Ball for Obama's Judicial Picks(Plus a live chat with the New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin)
The current New Yorker has an interesting piece by Jeffrey Toobin on President Obama’s judicial picks. Toobin took part in a live chat about the piece at NewYorker.com right now earlier today if you’re interested. (Try not to crash their website.). UPDATE: The chat’s quite interesting. Toobin reveals why he likes Justice Souter best and […] -
Clerkships, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Job Searches
Clerkship Application Season: Clear The Phones
A couple of days ago, we heralded the start of clerkship application season. Given the weakness in the legal economy, there should be a lot of people trying to snag a clerkship offer this year. Today is the day that judges can start calling around and setting up interviews. A tipster reports: Per the hiring […] -
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Clerkship Application Season: Open Thread
Once everyone gets back from Labor Day weekend, the craziness known as the clerkship application process will begin. This coming Tuesday is the first date when applications may be received, according to the 2009 Law Clerk Hiring Plan (followed by many but not all federal judges). It’s become pretty standard to advise law students and […] -
Alex Kozinski, Feeder Judges, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Clerks Are Fair Game, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: New Term, New Hires
Our last round-up of Supreme Court clerk hiring was published back in August, before the start of October Term 2008. Now that the justices are back in the country and back on the bench, they’re back to interviewing clerkship applicants. Over at the Clerkship Notification Blog, there was buzz about Justice Stephen Breyer interviewing and […] -
9th Circuit, Alex Kozinski, Fabulosity, Feeder Judges, Pictures, Stephen Reinhardt
Every Article III Groupie's Fantasy
A photo op with two of the nation’s most distinguished jurists: Ninth Circuit Judges Stephen Reinhardt and Alex Kozinski! (Judge Reinhardt seemed a bit skittish about the taking of this picture, but Judge Kozinski’s enthuasism was infectious. Or maybe it was just hard for Judge Reinhardt to say no to the incoming Chief Judge of […]
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Clerkships, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Law Schools
The Clerkship Application Process: What's Going On?
Many judges are done hiring their law clerks for next year. We’re happy to report that several of our friends, whom we were informally advising on the process, landed clerkships with their top picks. For those of you who are still going through the process, this gossip might be of interest: Rumor check: word on […] -
Bad Ideas, Celebrities, Feeder Judges, Law Schools, Ridiculousness
Wherein Harvard Law School Hits Itself Over the Head With a Silly Stick
We’ve always admired Harvard Law School. It struck us as a place of high seriousness. It didn’t succumb to the latest trends in legal education. It didn’t train philsopher-kings; it trained LAWYERS, dammit. So what if its students were kinda miserable? They got the best, most rigorous legal education money could buy. In short, HLS […] -
7th Circuit, Dahlia Lithwick, Death Penalty, Feeder Judges, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Law Firm Mergers, Money, Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.13.07
* Dahlia Lithwick on SCOTUS and the death penalty. [Slate] * A panel of the Seventh Circuit is made up entirely of Sixth Circuit judges sitting by designation. Of course, recusal seems to make sense when the defendant plotted to attack the Seventh Circuit’s courthouse. [How Appealing] * Novak testifies: he got the info from […]
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Civil Rights, Department of Justice, Donald Stout, Duke Lacrosse Team Rape Case, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Feldsuk, Fred Fielding, Guantanamo Bay, Judicial Nominations, Michael Boudin, Real Estate, Shanetta Cutlar, Ty Clevenger, War on Terror, Week in Review, White House Counsel
ATL Week in Review: January 8 - 12
* Over at the Justice Department, the bad-ass Shanetta Cutlar, Chief of the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division, takes no prisoners. * Not even summer interns can escape her wrath. * But hey, at least they get to go back to school. Full-time attorneys can escape only by leaving the Section — […] -
10th Circuit, Alberto Gonzales, Anthony Kennedy, Brett Gerry, Department of Justice, Eyes of the Law, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Kellogg Huber, Neil Gorsuch, Office of Legal Policy, Rachel Brand, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Potential, Supreme Court
The Eyes of the Law: Judge Neil Gorsuch's Investiture
Last week, an investiture ceremony was held for Judge Neil Gorsuch, recently confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. And it was a star-studded affair. From the Denver Post: Seven-year-old Emma and 5-year-old Belinda helped their father, Neil Gorsuch, into his judge’s robes Monday after the newly appointed 10th Circuit Court […] -
Art, Celebrities, D.C. Circuit, Eyes of the Law, Fabulosity, Feeder Judges, R. Alexander Acosta, Samuel Alito, Stephen Williams
The Eyes of the Law: Judge Williams's Portrait Ceremony
If you, like us, find Supreme Court justice sightings more thrilling than Brangelina spottings, you would have died from excitement at the portrait ceremony for Judge Stephen F. Williams. Judge Williams is the brilliant former law professor who now sits on the venerated D.C. Circuit. Back in the day, before he assumed senior status, Stephen […]