Supreme Court Clerks
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Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Justice Sotomayor(Plus info about Justice Thomas for OT 2010.)
The complete, official list of Supreme Court clerks for October Term 2009 — i.e., the clerks who recently arrived at One First Street — will be released by the Public Information Office shortly, perhaps by the end of this week. We’ve previously listed many of the Court’s OT 2009 law clerks in these pages. But […] -
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Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 7.12: French Kissing
Rejoice, wedding fans! We have some compelling mid-summer material for you this week: Wachtell, SCOTUS, lesbians, French nobility — read on for the details on all of that and more, as reported in the New York Times and filtered by us. Our finalist couples: 1. Rebecca Gutner and Rodman Forter Jr. 2. Laura Hammond and […] - Sponsored
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Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: A Look at OT 2010
Welcome to July, a month of transitions at the U.S. Supreme Court. The law clerks for October Term 2009 will be starting up at One First Street this month. The OT 2008 clerks are riding off into the sunset — and six-figure signing bonuses. [FN1] So OT 2009 clerk hiring is pretty much done — […]
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Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 6.14: Chemistry Lesson
We’ll bottom-line this week’s contest, folks: The SCOTUS clerk wins. Yep, after a long absence, LEWW’s favorite credential makes a welcome appearance in the NYT weddings section, and we’ve got the details for you. But first, congratulations to Sabrina Charles and Jamie Dycus, who readers overwhelmingly voted Legal Eagle Couple of the Month for May, […] -
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SCOTUS Clerkship Bonus Watch: Still at $250K?
The National Law Journal suggests that the down economy could be hitting the pockets of the Elect. Some firms are suggesting that the $250,000 bonus to hire a former Supreme Court clerk is just too expensive in today’s economy: At firms that have been shaken by the downturn, however, a $250,000 bonus will be hard […] -
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The Theater of the Courtroom (Or, A Review of A More Perfect Union)
Your ATL editors kicked off the Memorial Day weekend with a trip to the East 13th Street Theater in Manhattan, where we saw A More Perfect Union, presented by the Epic Theater Ensemble. The play, by Canadian playwright Vern Thiessen, is about two members of The Elect — i.e., two Supreme Court clerks, who fall […] -
Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Clerks
Is Justice Thomas 'A Little Tired' of His Job?(He has hired his clerks. Who are they?)
In today’s Morning Docket, we linked to an interesting article, by Adam Liptak of the New York Times, concerning a recent public appearance by Justice Clarence Thomas before a group of high school essay contest winners. The WSJ Law Blog collects a number of fun tidbits — such as Justice Thomas’s declaration that “the dishwasher […] -
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Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: A First for Seton Hall
We take back what we previously wrote about Justice Samuel Alito being “a bit secretive about his clerk hiring.” Presumably Justice Alito signed off on this press release issued by Seton Hall Law School, announcing the hiring of Lucas Townsend (Seton Hall 2004 / Ackerman (D.N.J.) / Trump Barry) as an Alito clerk for October […] - Sponsored
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Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Chief Justice Roberts
Okay, so Chief Justice John Roberts can’t administer an oath of office to save his life. But he can hire brilliant and fabulous law clerks: 1. James McDonald (UVA 2007 / Sutton) 2. Stephen Sachs (Yale 2007 / S. Williams) 2. Erik Zimmerman (Stanford 2007/Wilkinson) They join the previously hired Roman Martinez (Yale 2008 / […] -
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Musical Chairs: The Obama White House Counsel's Office(And ODAG picks, too.)
Last night we wrote about some of the top-notch talent that will be filling senior legal positions in the Obama Administration. These are big names, and you probably also read about them in big publications, like the Legal Times or the Wall Street Journal. ATL is willing to drill down deeper. We now bring you […] -
Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Justice Breyer's 2010 Hires
With Barack Obama about to assume the presidency, alongside a heavily Democratic Senate, the justices in the liberal wing of the Supreme Court are free to retire if they like. Don’t be surprised if Justice David Souter, never a fan of life at One First Street, heads for the exit early in the Obama presidency. […] -
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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 […] -
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Musical Chairs: Kannon Shanmugam To Williams & Connolly
He's W&C's first lateral partner hire in 22 years.
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ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so…
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2nd Circuit, Cass Sunstein, New York Times, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samantha Power, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: July's Couple of the Month
Good news for Legal Eagle Wedding Watchers: LEWW will be returning to a more frequent and timely posting schedule! Beginning next week, we’ll once again feature our gold standard of three fabulous couples per week to ogle and dissect. We’ll bring you more hot August weddings tomorrow and Friday, but for now, it’s time for […] -
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A Hot New Trend: State Solicitors General
Former Supreme Court clerks, also known as the Elect, have no shortage of job opportunities. And a new development in state government is giving them even more. From the National Law Journal: A trend among states in recent years to appoint a solicitor general has increased opportunities for young attorneys to get into court and […] -
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Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 7.13 and 7.20: Columbian Dictatorship
We interrupt the spirited smackdown of ATL Idol to bring you a couple of LEWW-related announcements. First, as expected, Team Ho-Glover scored a decisive win in June’s Couple of the Month voting. LEWW salutes this glorious SCOTUS – WGWAG – Friend-of-Lat juggernaut! In other news, two notable grooms didn’t make our list of finalists this […] -
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Musical Chairs: Jim Ho Replaces Ted Cruz as Texas SG
Congratulations to our old friend James Ho. The good news first surfaced on Sophistic Miltonian Serbonian Blog: A quiet trickle of a rumor last week was that James C. Ho, currently of counsel with Gibson Dunn and a former law clerk to Justice Thomas at SCOTUS, has been tapped to serve as the next Solicitor […] -
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Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: D-H-S is D-O-N-E
Thanks to everyone who responded to our open call for Supreme Court clerk hiring news. We now know the identities of Justice David H. Souter’s four law clerks for October Term 2008: 1. Erin Delaney (NYU 2007 / Guido-maniac)2. Michael Gerber (Yale 2005 / Leval)3. Warren Postman, (Harvard 2007 / W. Fletcher)4. Noah Purcell (Harvard […] -
Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Surely They Must Be Done By Now
Over a month has passed since our last update on Supreme Court clerk hiring. We hear through the grapevine that Justice David H. Souter has finally picked his law clerks for October Term 2008. And we’re guessing that Justice Samuel A. Alito has too (since we’ve known about his first two hires for quite some […] -
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Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Saved By the Bell Star To Clerk for Justice O'Connor!(And another OT 2009 hire, by Justice Breyer)
Taken as a group, Supreme Court clerks can claim pretty much every honor under the sun. At One First Street, Rhodes and Marshall scholars are commonplace, law review editors-in-chief are a dime a dozen, and law school valedictorians abound. But how many SCOTUS clerks have their own IMDb entry? Meet Isaac Lidsky (Harvard 2004 / […]