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Negotiating Clerkship Bonuses
I'm currently a district court clerk. After that, I'm clerking on the Federal Circuit. Has anyone (or does anyone know someone who) successfully negotiated a higher clerkship bonus or benefit?
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Re: Negotiating Clerkship Bonuses
Former CAFC clerk here. Sure people negotiate. You can sometimes get a firm who comes in a bit below market to match market also you should get a bump for the D. Ct. clerkship as well and sometimes you need to "ask" for that bump.
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zomginternets
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Re: Negotiating Clerkship Bonuses
Is there any additional bump for CAFC clerks over other COA clerks? Seems like there would be a premium for them if going into patent litigation.Anonymous User wrote:Former CAFC clerk here. Sure people negotiate. You can sometimes get a firm who comes in a bit below market to match market also you should get a bump for the D. Ct. clerkship as well and sometimes you need to "ask" for that bump.
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I've never heard of any firms differentiating among circuit courts when it comes to bonus levels.zomginternets wrote:Is there any additional bump for CAFC clerks over other COA clerks? Seems like there would be a premium for them if going into patent litigation.Anonymous User wrote:Former CAFC clerk here. Sure people negotiate. You can sometimes get a firm who comes in a bit below market to match market also you should get a bump for the D. Ct. clerkship as well and sometimes you need to "ask" for that bump.
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Re: Negotiating Clerkship Bonuses
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Re: Negotiating Clerkship Bonuses
zomginternets wrote:Is there any additional bump for CAFC clerks over other COA clerks? Seems like there would be a premium for them if going into patent litigation.Anonymous User wrote:Former CAFC clerk here. Sure people negotiate. You can sometimes get a firm who comes in a bit below market to match market also you should get a bump for the D. Ct. clerkship as well and sometimes you need to "ask" for that bump.
Surprisingly, yes (assuming market for other circuits is still 50k, but wtf do I know about other circuits). Market bonus for CAFC is generally 70k, though not all firms that routinely recruit CAFC clerks pay 70k.
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Re: Negotiating Clerkship Bonuses
What is the market rate among V20 (or whatever) firms for a one year district court clerkship followed by a one year COA clerkship?
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Re: Negotiating Clerkship Bonuses
OP here. So does that mean that a CAFC clerk with a district court clerkship might be able to get more than 70k, given that the "market" rate for district court plus a non-CAFC COA clerkship tends to be 70k? I guess this was the crux of my question originally. Not to be greedy, but it's a bit unfortunate that I've clerked for an extra year (and given up big firm pay for an extra year) but will get no greater bonus than if I had gone straight to CAFC (assuming, of course, that that would've been possible), which is why I'm curious if firms don't offer more in that situation.Anonymous User wrote:zomginternets wrote:Is there any additional bump for CAFC clerks over other COA clerks? Seems like there would be a premium for them if going into patent litigation.Anonymous User wrote:Former CAFC clerk here. Sure people negotiate. You can sometimes get a firm who comes in a bit below market to match market also you should get a bump for the D. Ct. clerkship as well and sometimes you need to "ask" for that bump.
Surprisingly, yes (assuming market for other circuits is still 50k, but wtf do I know about other circuits). Market bonus for CAFC is generally 70k, though not all firms that routinely recruit CAFC clerks pay 70k.
(poster above me, ^^^ the answer to your question is in mine)
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Re: Negotiating Clerkship Bonuses
Anonymous User wrote:OP here. So does that mean that a CAFC clerk with a district court clerkship might be able to get more than 70k, given that the "market" rate for district court plus a non-CAFC COA clerkship tends to be 70k? I guess this was the crux of my question originally. Not to be greedy, but it's a bit unfortunate that I've clerked for an extra year (and given up big firm pay for an extra year) but will get no greater bonus than if I had gone straight to CAFC (assuming, of course, that that would've been possible), which is why I'm curious if firms don't offer more in that situation.Anonymous User wrote:zomginternets wrote:Is there any additional bump for CAFC clerks over other COA clerks? Seems like there would be a premium for them if going into patent litigation.Anonymous User wrote:Former CAFC clerk here. Sure people negotiate. You can sometimes get a firm who comes in a bit below market to match market also you should get a bump for the D. Ct. clerkship as well and sometimes you need to "ask" for that bump.
Surprisingly, yes (assuming market for other circuits is still 50k, but wtf do I know about other circuits). Market bonus for CAFC is generally 70k, though not all firms that routinely recruit CAFC clerks pay 70k.
(poster above me, ^^^ the answer to your question is in mine)
Same former CAFC clerk here.
It depends on the firm, but yes some firms that pay 70k will also give you additional $$$ for a district court clerkship. I'm not sure there is a standard mark-up for the district court clerkship, but several of my co-clerks got extra coin.
