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Join Your Law School's Supreme Court Clinic If You Want An Elite Job After Graduation

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The U.S. Supreme Court (by Joe Ravi via Wikimedia – CC-BY-SA 3.0)

It’s one thing to study constitutional law and the Supreme Court in the abstract in a classroom, and it’s another to then actually be working on actual Supreme Court briefs and cases. It was really the capstone experience of my legal education.

— Scott Keller, an alumnus of the University of Texas School of Law’s Supreme Court Clinic, commenting on how the experience impacted his career. Keller, who formerly served as solicitor general of Texas, is now the chair of the Supreme Court and constitutional law practice at Baker Botts. Alumni from other top Supreme Court clinics have gone on to do wonderful things with their careers, from heading appellate practices in private firms to working as assistants to the U.S. solicitor general where they argue cases before the high court on behalf of the government.

Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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