Supreme Court Clerks
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Clerkships, SCOTUS Clerks Are Fair Game, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerks Are Fair Game: Part 4
Here’s the fourth post in our continuing series about why there’s nothing wrong with writing about Supreme Court clerks. Prior installments are available here (Part 1), here (Part 2), and here (Part 3). We’d also like to direct your attention to this excellent comment by a reader — replete with an eloquent quote from Schopenhauer. […] -
Clerkships, SCOTUS Clerks Are Fair Game, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerks Are Fair Game: Part 3
This is the third post in a series defending the propriety of writing about Supreme Court clerks. The first two installments are available here and here. The rest of this post, making the third point in our multi-part argument, appears after the jump. - Sponsored
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Clerkships, SCOTUS Clerks Are Fair Game, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerks Are Fair Game: Part 2
This is the second post in our continuing manifesto, started this morning, as to why it’s okay to write about former Thomas clerk Chantel Febus’s appreciation for Lenny Kravitz. Most of you probably have no interest in the rest of this post; if you’re visiting a site like this one, you probably enjoy rather than […]
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Clerkships, Linda Greenhouse, SCOTUS Clerks Are Fair Game, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerks Are Fair Game: Part 1
We understand that some of you have been upset by our recent coverage of a certain future Supreme Court clerk. As we mentioned over the weekend, we are instituting a moratorium on coverage of this clerk, at least for the time being. So all of you irate commenters can unwad your panties, spray Febreze on […] -
Antonin Scalia, Contests, Depositions, ERISA, Hotties, Reality TV, Summer Associates, Supreme Court Clerks, Survivor, Viet Dinh, Week in Review
ATL Week in Review
* Our first annual ERISA Hotties Contest is over, and America’s hottest pension and employee benefit lawyers have been crowned. Some other great candidates were passed over; but hey, not everyone can win. * The new season of Survivor: an exotic Cook Islands setting, interracial conflict — and hot Asian lawyers. * Practice pointer: When […] -
Bruce Kovner, Money, Rachel Kovner, Ridiculousness, Supreme Court Clerks
Rachel Kovner: Poor Little Rich Girl?
In light of our earlier posts about Cristina Schultz and Rachel Kovner, Friday is rapidly turning into “Women of Stanford Law” day here at ATL. And that’s not about to change. We’ve received some interesting responses to our wall-to-wall coverage of Ms. Kovner — whom we are determined to turn into a celebrity, whether she […] -
Aditya Bamzai, Antonin Scalia, John Bash, Rachel Kovner, Supreme Court Clerks
SCOTUS Clerk Hiring Watch: No More Nino for OT 2007
Earlier this week, we filled you in on three of Justice Antonin Scalia’s four brilliant law clerk hires for October Term 2007: John Bash, Aditya Bamzai, and — last but definitely not least — the fantabulous Rachel Kovner. Well, now Nino is all done hiring his clerks for October 2007. The name of his final […] -
Anna Schneider-Mayerson, Asians, Eugene Volokh, HP, Supreme Court Clerks, Viet Dinh
Viet Dinh: Still As Cuddly As Ever
The recent HP leak investigation scandal has drawn into the spotlight a legal celebrity of the first rank: Viet Dinh. Dinh represents venture capitalist god Thomas Perkins, in Perkins’s (rather tense) dealings with HP’s board and lawyers. Dinh, for those of you visiting from other planets, is one of the highest-flying legal eagles in the […] - Sponsored
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Antonin Scalia, Bruce Kovner, Fabulosity, Money, Philosophy, Rachel Kovner, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
An Open Letter to the Empress of Palo Alto
Based on the feedback we’ve received, it seems that you share our obsession with the brilliant Rachel Kovner. In case you don’t know, Ms. Kovner is (1) the best student in the history of Stanford Law School (“the Empress of Palo Alto”); (2) a future law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia (“Nino’s Girl”); and (3) […] -
Bruce Kovner, Fabulosity, Rachel Kovner, Supreme Court Clerks
More on the Fabulous Rachel Kovner
It appears that our post yesterday on Rachel Kovner — the young legal genius clerking this year for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson (4th Cir.), and next year for Justice Antonin Scalia — has struck a nerve. It’s been getting emailed around, and we’ve also gotten a lot of mail about Ms. Kovner. So we’d now […] -
Bruce Kovner, Money, Nauseating Things, Rachel Kovner, Supreme Court Clerks
Definitive Proof that Life Isn't Fair
As we reported earlier today, Rachel Kovner — a.k.a. “the Empress of Palo Alto” — just landed herself an October 2007 Supreme Court clerkship, with judicial icon Antonin Scalia. It’s a well-known fact that Justice Scalia doesn’t hire women often. But when the woman in question is (1) a staunch conservative with (2) the highest […] -
Aditya Bamzai, Antonin Scalia, Brett Kavanaugh, J. Harvie Wilkinson III, J. Michael Luttig, John Bash, Rachel Kovner, Supreme Court Clerks
SCOTUS Clerk Hiring Watch: Nino Almost Done for OT 2007
If you have dreams of clerking for Justice Antonin Scalia next year (October Term 2007), and your name doesn’t appear below, sorry — your dreams are fading fast. Here are the OT 2007 hires of Justice Scalia (thus far): 1. Aditya Bamzai (University of Chicago/Sutton/OLC). Here’s an equation that’s as reliable as E=mc2: Clerkship with […] -
Money, Supreme Court Clerks
Will Review Cert Petitions for Food
The brilliant young lawyers who clerk at the Supreme Court, after hanging out with the justices for a year, can head to the private sector and collect signing bonuses of $200,000 (and up). Former SCOTUS clerks get these bonuses just for showing up to work — they’re in addition to the six-figure salaries they’ll earn […]
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Ann Althouse, Bad Ideas, Clerkships, Larry Sonsini, Non-Sequiturs, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Non-Sequiturs: 09.08.06
* Larry Sonsini reminds us of why we should use the phone, and NOT email, if we’re going to do something sketchy. Also, his spelling and typing skills aren’t perfect. (But by the standards of Biglaw partners of his generation, he’s in the 95th percentile — assuming he typed this all himself.) [WSJ Law Blog] […] -
Asians, China, Dan Markel, Gender, New York Times, Non-Sequiturs, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks, Too Clever By Half
Non-Sequiturs: 09.01.06
–Ah, so Goulston & Storrs is going to China.* [WSJ Law Blog] –Our Legal Eagle Wedding Watch is already generating controversy — see this post (and the comments). But Dan Markel — at right, with Wendi Adelson, his lovely wife — isn’t impartial when it comes to the NYT wedding pages.** [PrawfsBlawg] –Yes, ATL will […] -
Antonin Scalia, Hurricane Katrina, Kenneth Starr, New Orleans, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Morning Docket: 8.30.06
* The number of women clerking at the Supreme Court has fallen to the lowest level since 1994. It’s all Scalia’s fault. Oh wait, no it isn’t — he never hires women anyway. [New York Times] * Former Whitewater prosecutor Ken Starr has asked the Supreme Court to hear the appeal of a high school […] -
Akhil Amar, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, John Roberts, Miguel Estrada, Neal Katyal, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Neal Katyal: The Paris Hilton of the Legal Elite?
Today’s Wednesday. Guess what that means? Time for another sycophantic profile of Georgetown Law Professor Neal Katyal! Katyal, you surely recall, successfully argued Hamdan v. Rumsfeld before the Supreme Court. For that achievement, he earned a place in the footnotes of legal history — and, even more importantly, an appearance on the Colbert Report. After […]