Clerkships
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Clerkships, Feeder Judges, Neil Gorsuch, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Meet Justice Neil Gorsuch's Clerks
These clerks are like their boss: brilliant, well-credentialed, and (seemingly) conservative. -
Clerkships, Feeder Judges, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: The Next Generation (Of Feeder Judges)
These emerging feeder judges are a high-powered and diverse group. - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
Clerkships, Federal Judges, Neil Gorsuch, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Liberals And Gays For Gorsuch? (Or, The Virtues Of Non-Ideological Clerk Hiring)
It's nice to have friends on both sides of the aisle.
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Department of Justice, Federal Government, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Congratulations To The 2017 Bristow Fellows
Congratulations to the new fellows, their law schools, and their judges! -
Clerkships, Feeder Judges, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: October Term 2017 Is Done; Let's Turn To 2018
Don't count on any justice retiring before the end of next Term. -
SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
'Orphaned' Scalia Clerk Breaks His Silence On Finding A New Home With Justice Thomas
What was it like for clerks after Justice Scalia passed away? -
Clerkships, Feeder Judges, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: October Term 2017 Is Filling Up Fast
All the justices are done hiring for next Term, except for one -- can you guess who? -
Clerkships, Feeder Judges, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Send Us Your Tips (Plus An Updated Official Clerk List)
We're about to do a new update, so please share hiring news for October Term 2017 (and beyond). - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.08.16
* Brad Pitt filed a motion to seal the details of his custody arrangement with Angelia Jolie to protect his children’s privacy, but a judge has rejected the actor’s request. A lawyer for Jolie had this to say: “His … request is a thinly veiled attempt to shield himself, rather than the minor children, from public view.” Ouch. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
* CHECK YOU EMAILS OFTEN, PARTNERS! Several Biglaw firms — including Cravath and Weil Gotshal — were hit by data breaches over the course of last year, and it’s now been confirmed that those data breaches were carried out by Chinese operatives who were successful in stealing about seven gigabytes of data by hacking their way into partners’ email accounts. [Fortune]
* Each December, Jeffrey Toobin creates a “semi-accurate, semi-serious” list of his predictions for the top legal stories for the coming year. Perhaps most notably, Toobin predicts President Donald Trump will appoint Judge Diane Sykes of the Seventh Circuit to the Supreme Court as the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s replacement. [New Yorker]
* Which is more prestigious, a judicial clerkship or a first-of-its-kind Capitol Hill clerkship? Earlier this week, four senators introduced a bill to create a dozen yearlong Congressional clerkships for recent law school graduates. The bill would allow law school graduates to “spend a formative year in the legislative branch.” [National Law Journal]
* Per the most recent Corporate Equity Index survey released by the Human Rights Campaign, more Biglaw firms are doing well when it comes to protecting their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees. One hundred and twelve firms earned perfect scores for their inclusive policies in the survey, up from 95 last year. [Am Law Daily]
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Anthony Kennedy, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Anatomy Of A Rumor: On Justice Kennedy's 'Retirement' Next Year
Wherein we dispel the latest rumors about a justice leaving the Supreme Court. -
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Federal Judges, Richard Posner, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Judge Richard Posner Corrects The Record Regarding His Supreme Court Comments
Two important clarifications from Judge Posner about his controversial remarks. -
Federal Judges, Richard Posner, Supreme Court
Judge Richard Posner On SCOTUS: 'The Supreme Court Is Awful'
Judge Posner thinks that only two justices are qualified to sit on the high court.
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.21.16
* Rhonda Crawford, the Illinois law clerk who allegedly posed as a judge and was running unopposed for her own judgeship, was indicted for her judicial impersonation. Crawford does not intend to drop out of the race for a seat on the bench, despite the state bar ethics commission seeking to suspend her license to practice. [Chicago Tribune]
* London firms CMS and Olswang are merging with international firm Nabarro for a three-way combination that’s set to close in May 2017 and operate under the name CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang, but rumor has it an American firm wants to get in on the action. Will Hunton & Williams join in for four-way fun? [The Lawyer]
* “[M]aybe Republicans can stop with the 60-something repeal votes they’ve taken … and just work with the next president to smooth out the kinks.” President Obama hopes that maybe when his second term in the White House is over, his signature healthcare law can be fixed. He doesn’t even care if they change its name to “Reagancare.” [Reuters]
* “The panic is starting to set in. Those who have a lot of interests at stake need to do work now.” Lawyers across the pond are poised for a profitable 2017 thanks to people scrambling for legal advice following Brexit, but those billables won’t last forever; after all, lawyers aren’t “immune to a broader economic slowdown.” [Big Law Business]
* More law schools are partially or completely covering bar exam preparation costs for their students, but with pass rates plummeting across the nation, you must be curious if this trend has had any positive effect. It worked for Loyola New Orleans and Southern University, whose pass rates for first-timers increased quite a bit. [ABA Journal]
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Boutique Law Firms, Litigators, Small Law Firms, U.S. Attorneys Offices
Former Federal Prosecutor Jessica Ortiz's Career Advice For Up-And-Coming Attorneys
A federal prosecutor turned law firm partner offers insights to law students and young lawyers. -
Pregnancy / Paternity, State Judges, Women's Issues
Law Clerk Alleges She Was Fired By Judge While On Maternity Leave
If judges allegedly can't follow the law when it comes to maternity leave, how can we expect other employers to do any better? -
Biglaw, Bonuses, Clerkships, Money, Susman Godfrey
Clerkship Bonus Raises: Three Is A Trend
Raising clerkship bonuses in the wake of the Biglaw base salary raises makes a lot of sense. -
Bad Ideas, Legal Ethics, State Judges
Judge Removed After Allegedly Allowing Law Clerk To Wear Robe, Hear Cases
Sorry, but there's no such thing as playing judicial dress-up. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.11.16
* More cases are working their way up to the Supreme Court to define a religiously affiliated employer’s obligations to its employees. [Rewire]
* Is there a particular formula for getting yourself a coveted Supreme Court clerkship? [Empirical SCOTUS]
* The conservative interpretation of the Second Amendment has been prelude to Donald Trump’s veiled assassination “joke.” [Slate]
* Is criminal sentencing about to go all precog in this country? [FiveThirtyEight]
* Yes, even liberals can commit sexual assault. [The Slot]
* Remember — these pages and pages of redactions were probably done by some poor contract attorney trying to make a living. [Gawker]
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Clerkships, Feeder Judges, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: An Analysis Of The October Term 2016 Clerk Class
Which law schools and feeder judges produced the most SCOTUS clerks for the upcoming Term?