11:58 -- You can negotiate, but you are limited in what experience you can count. Bar admissions, time studying for the bar, work during law school, and prior practice as an attorney before clerking can give you a bump if they add up to more than a year or two years experience total. Don't expect a bump for irrelevant nonlegal degrees or prior nonlegal work experience. The way to negotiate is to have your judge agree to hire you as a full-time clerk for more than 1 year -- i.e. 1 year and a day. That puts you in another category of employee who is elegible for full governmental benefits. Then go from there and provide evidence of your prior income. There is a salary matching program that if you qualify for can be huge, but it only applies if you are going to work for longer than one year and if you are joining the government from a higher paying private sector job. Good luck.
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11:58 -- You can negotiate, but you are limited in what experience you can count. Bar admissions, time studying for the bar, work during law school, and prior practice as an attorney before clerking can give you a bump if they add up to more than a year or two years experience total. Don't expect a bump for irrelevant nonlegal degrees or prior nonlegal work experience. The way to negotiate is to have your judge agree to hire you as a full-time clerk for more than 1 year -- i.e. 1 year and a day. That puts you in another category of employee who is elegible for full governmental benefits. Then go from there and provide evidence of your prior income. There is a salary matching program that if you qualify for can be huge, but it only applies if you are going to work for longer than one year and if you are joining the government from a higher paying private sector job. Good luck.