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 Post subject: Re: Clerks, taking questions for a bit
PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:12 am 
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How do you get a judicial internship.

And is there any way to find judge's emails? I know some want hard copies, but I am just as willing not to work for those Luddites. I hear more and more don't mind the emailed entreaty, but it's hard to find their emails.

It's hard to find judges' e-mails because if they were generally public, every pro se freak* and their dog would be e-mailing them about why the judge needs to overturn their criminal conviction from 1987 PRONTO. Don't e-mail the judge. Either suck it up and send hard copies, or call the chambers and ask whether they take applications on e-mail, and if so, where you should send them.

*Apologies to the reasonable pro se parties out there.


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 Post subject: Re: Clerks, taking questions for a bit
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nvm. Oops, sorry. Didn't mean to be anon.


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 Post subject: Re: Clerks, taking questions for a bit
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To those who clerked twice, I'm just trying to get a sense of what kind of chances I'll have in the spring or fall to make the jump to Circuit....2013 clerkship in relatively un-competitive district within Fourth Circuit, probably around top 10% (3.65ish) at T25 with LR (non e-board)/publication, to the extent that individual grades matter in clerkship classes I have A's in Fed Courts, Admin, and Con Law II. Obviously not looking at DC/2/9 but do I at least have a chance if willing to apply fairly broadly?


Would you mind sending me a pm?


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 Post subject: Re: Clerks, taking questions for a bit
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If you can't get an associate job at a law firm after clerking for a federal judge, where else should a former clerk apply to?


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 Post subject: Re: Clerks, taking questions for a bit
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Hi, 0L here. I know it's too early, but what should I do if I want a CoA clerkship from Harvard (intended matriculation)?

From what I've read, I know Law Review is necessary, but is there anything else I should do? Thank you!


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 Post subject: Re: Clerks, taking questions for a bit
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edamame wrote:
Hi, 0L here. I know it's too early, but what should I do if I want a CoA clerkship from Harvard (intended matriculation)?

From what I've read, I know Law Review is necessary, but is there anything else I should do? Thank you!


Law Review isn't necessary, but it certainly helps your application. Besides that, develop connections with professors (for letters of recommendation) and most importantly, get good grades.


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 Post subject: Re: Clerks, taking questions for a bit
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Does anyone want to guess how applying to CoA judges is going to look in the next 2-4 years given the breakdown of the plan? I've already heard some judges hiring in the late fall/winter of 2L year. Is that going to become the norm?


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Does anyone want to guess how applying to CoA judges is going to look in the next 2-4 years given the breakdown of the plan? I've already heard some judges hiring in the late fall/winter of 2L year. Is that going to become the norm?


It's hard to tell. While many judges have shifted off the plan, it's not necessarily that they'll be going earlier and earlier. Also, more and more judges want work experience for clerks and are hiring alumni/3Ls a year out to whom the plan does not apply thus eliminating any semblence of an ordered schedule.


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 Post subject: Re: Clerks, taking questions for a bit
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I'm not sure if more judges will really be going off either, it just seems like that from year to year. A good amount of CoA judges are already off, but I would say the majority of D. Ct. judges are still on plan.


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