It’s time for a quick bit of Biglaw bonus counterprogramming. We have collected enough Supreme Court clerk hiring news to issue our next update, which you should expect before Christmas. In advance of that round-up, please send us hiring news for October Term 2017 and beyond. You can email us (subject line: “SCOTUS clerk hiring”) or text us (646-820-8477; please include the words “SCOTUS clerk hiring” in your text). (To see the OT 2017 hires we’re already aware of, click here.)
If you don’t want to wait for that update to find out about new SCOTUS clerk hires, follow the @SCOTUSambitions Twitter feed (and scroll through its archives as well). I originally launched that account in connection with my book about the Supreme Court clerkship quest — Supreme Ambitions (affiliate link), which makes a great holiday gift for law students and lawyers — but I now use it to send out real-time news of Supreme Court clerk hiring, as well as tweets about the Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit, and the federal judiciary more generally. (If you’re not familiar with Supreme Ambitions, see this New York Times article about the book.)
Before we leave you, here’s an early holiday gift: the Supreme Court’s official list of law clerks for October Term 2016 (i.e., the clerks currently working at One First Street), now featuring law school and prior clerkship information. Back in July, we shared with you the Court’s official list of OT 2016 clerks without this background info. Now we have the updated list, courtesy of the Supreme Court’s wonderful Public Information Office, and we make it available to you below.
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As we’ve explained before, the Supreme Court’s clerk list includes just a single prior clerkship for each clerk, even though a fair number of SCOTUS clerks have done two (or more) prior clerkships. To see all prior clerkships for a given clerk, see this prior post; for assorted observations about the OT 2016 clerk class, see this prior post.
We realize, however, that the Supreme Court’s clerk list is the gold standard for many folks — e.g., law school clerkship advisors — because of its official status. So we present it to you below (or click here to download the original PDF).
Please send us your SCOTUS clerk hiring news, so Santa Clerk can deliver a new hiring report before December 25. Merry Christmas!
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David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at [email protected].