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Re: Judges who female or LGBT law clerks should avoid

Post by jd20132013 » Tue Dec 12, 2017 6:43 pm

interestingly, Kosinski is the only judge I ever heard the whispers about. Obviously he can't be the only one, but one wonders if he really is that dramatic an outlier

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jd20132013 wrote:interestingly, Kosinski is the only judge I ever heard the whispers about. Obviously he can't be the only one, but one wonders if he really is that dramatic an outlier

Ha. Kozinski does not stand alone

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Post by Anonymous User » Thu Dec 14, 2017 7:22 pm

JusticeJackson wrote:Kozinski has probably hired clerks 3 years out. I bet at least some of them are getting cold feet at this point.
Rumblings are that 3 clerks just straight up quit.

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Re: Judges who female or LGBT law clerks should avoid

Post by JusticeJackson » Thu Dec 14, 2017 8:05 pm

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JusticeJackson wrote:Kozinski has probably hired clerks 3 years out. I bet at least some of them are getting cold feet at this point.
Rumblings are that 3 clerks just straight up quit.
Damn. Seems like you’d finish your year. I guess good for them if they were able to just do this. I’m not sure I even knew my landing spot this early in my clerkship (ie three months in).

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Post by Anonymous User » Thu Dec 14, 2017 8:48 pm

JusticeJackson wrote:
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JusticeJackson wrote:Kozinski has probably hired clerks 3 years out. I bet at least some of them are getting cold feet at this point.
Rumblings are that 3 clerks just straight up quit.
Damn. Seems like you’d finish your year. I guess good for them if they were able to just do this. I’m not sure I even knew my landing spot this early in my clerkship (ie three months in).
I don't think that people with the credentials necessary to get a Kozinski clerkship are worried about finding a soft landing.

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Re: Judges who female or LGBT law clerks should avoid

Post by rpupkin » Thu Dec 14, 2017 8:59 pm

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JusticeJackson wrote:Kozinski has probably hired clerks 3 years out. I bet at least some of them are getting cold feet at this point.
Rumblings are that 3 clerks just straight up quit.
The Ninth Circuit has confirmed that "one or more" of Kozinski's current clerks has resigned.

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Re: Judges who female or LGBT law clerks should avoid

Post by jd20132013 » Fri Dec 15, 2017 10:52 am

in some ways this is the best punishment we were likely to get for him, lol. Make him do all that work himself

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jd20132013 wrote:in some ways this is the best punishment we were likely to get for him, lol. Make him do all that work himself
Word on the street (I was the anon above that first reported them quitting) is that he is called senior associates and former clerks looking for immediate help. Hard to imagine it will be too successful as that group has little to gain. Have been trying to get the scoop on why 3 left and not 4, no avail.

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Post by A. Nony Mouse » Fri Dec 15, 2017 12:13 pm

Totally speculating, but I’d guess “I never saw anything inappropriate!” paired with guessing that despite this Kosinski will still be a good person to have in your corner (which I’d bet he will, in certain corners).

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jd20132013 wrote:in some ways this is the best punishment we were likely to get for him, lol. Make him do all that work himself
Word on the street (I was the anon above that first reported them quitting) is that he is called senior associates and former clerks looking for immediate help. Hard to imagine it will be too successful as that group has little to gain. Have been trying to get the scoop on why 3 left and not 4, no avail.
CA9 clerk here. The three clerks that packed up and left went to T10 law schools. The clerk still working for him went to a lower-ranked school. I believe he's staying (for now) in part because he is concerned about whether other opportunities will be available to him.

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jd20132013 wrote:in some ways this is the best punishment we were likely to get for him, lol. Make him do all that work himself
Word on the street (I was the anon above that first reported them quitting) is that he is called senior associates and former clerks looking for immediate help. Hard to imagine it will be too successful as that group has little to gain. Have been trying to get the scoop on why 3 left and not 4, no avail.
CA9 clerk here. The three clerks that packed up and left went to T10 law schools. The clerk still working for him went to a lower-ranked school. I believe he's staying (for now) in part because he is concerned about whether other opportunities will be available to him.
Any knowledge of how they did it? I just wonder if they all just gave notice or straight up walked out. Pretty wild.

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Re: Judges who female or LGBT law clerks should avoid

Post by ggocat » Fri Dec 15, 2017 2:57 pm

jd20132013 wrote:in some ways this is the best punishment we were likely to get for him, lol. Make him do all that work himself
Presumably cases can be reassigned to other judges? It wouldn't hurt him to keep the cases as much as it would the litigants.

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jd20132013 wrote:in some ways this is the best punishment we were likely to get for him, lol. Make him do all that work himself
Word on the street (I was the anon above that first reported them quitting) is that he is called senior associates and former clerks looking for immediate help. Hard to imagine it will be too successful as that group has little to gain. Have been trying to get the scoop on why 3 left and not 4, no avail.
CA9 clerk here. The three clerks that packed up and left went to T10 law schools. The clerk still working for him went to a lower-ranked school. I believe he's staying (for now) in part because he is concerned about whether other opportunities will be available to him.
He may also think Kozinski's scandal will help him get a Thomas clerkship.

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Re: Judges who female or LGBT law clerks should avoid

Post by Anonymous User » Fri Dec 15, 2017 4:05 pm

I'm actually given to understand that Thomas never hires from Kozinski FWIW.

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Post by beepboopbeep » Fri Dec 15, 2017 4:33 pm

You got whooshed, second anon

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Post by lavarman84 » Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:45 pm

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jd20132013 wrote:in some ways this is the best punishment we were likely to get for him, lol. Make him do all that work himself
Word on the street (I was the anon above that first reported them quitting) is that he is called senior associates and former clerks looking for immediate help. Hard to imagine it will be too successful as that group has little to gain. Have been trying to get the scoop on why 3 left and not 4, no avail.
CA9 clerk here. The three clerks that packed up and left went to T10 law schools. The clerk still working for him went to a lower-ranked school. I believe he's staying (for now) in part because he is concerned about whether other opportunities will be available to him.
If you can get a Kozinski clerkship, I think you'll have options. My guess is that the clerk is the sort of striver who gets a Kozinski clerkship from a lower-ranked school and views it from the perspective of, "If I stick by Judge when everyone else bails, he's going to love me for it and go out of his way to back me for whatever gig I want." The person also is probably rationalizing it in the way Nony described, "Well, I didn't see anything bad, and it hasn't happened to me."

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Post by AOT » Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:51 pm

lavarman84 wrote:
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jd20132013 wrote:in some ways this is the best punishment we were likely to get for him, lol. Make him do all that work himself
Word on the street (I was the anon above that first reported them quitting) is that he is called senior associates and former clerks looking for immediate help. Hard to imagine it will be too successful as that group has little to gain. Have been trying to get the scoop on why 3 left and not 4, no avail.
CA9 clerk here. The three clerks that packed up and left went to T10 law schools. The clerk still working for him went to a lower-ranked school. I believe he's staying (for now) in part because he is concerned about whether other opportunities will be available to him.
If you can get a Kozinski clerkship, I think you'll have options. My guess is that the clerk is the sort of striver who gets a Kozinski clerkship from a lower-ranked school and views it from the perspective of, "If I stick by Judge when everyone else bails, he's going to love me for it and go out of his way to back me for whatever gig I want." The person also is probably rationalizing it in the way Nony described, "Well, I didn't see anything bad, and it hasn't happened to me."
I don't think this is particularly fair. We have no idea who this is or what their personal situation is.

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Re: Judges who female or LGBT law clerks should avoid

Post by lavarman84 » Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:56 pm

AOT wrote:
lavarman84 wrote:
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jd20132013 wrote:in some ways this is the best punishment we were likely to get for him, lol. Make him do all that work himself
Word on the street (I was the anon above that first reported them quitting) is that he is called senior associates and former clerks looking for immediate help. Hard to imagine it will be too successful as that group has little to gain. Have been trying to get the scoop on why 3 left and not 4, no avail.
CA9 clerk here. The three clerks that packed up and left went to T10 law schools. The clerk still working for him went to a lower-ranked school. I believe he's staying (for now) in part because he is concerned about whether other opportunities will be available to him.
If you can get a Kozinski clerkship, I think you'll have options. My guess is that the clerk is the sort of striver who gets a Kozinski clerkship from a lower-ranked school and views it from the perspective of, "If I stick by Judge when everyone else bails, he's going to love me for it and go out of his way to back me for whatever gig I want." The person also is probably rationalizing it in the way Nony described, "Well, I didn't see anything bad, and it hasn't happened to me."
I don't think this is particularly fair. We have no idea who this is or what their personal situation is.
I'm not saying they're doing anything wrong. They're making a personal choice.

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lavarman84 wrote:
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If you can get a Kozinski clerkship, I think you'll have options. My guess is that the clerk is the sort of striver who gets a Kozinski clerkship from a lower-ranked school and views it from the perspective of, "If I stick by Judge when everyone else bails, he's going to love me for it and go out of his way to back me for whatever gig I want." The person also is probably rationalizing it in the way Nony described, "Well, I didn't see anything bad, and it hasn't happened to me."
I don't think this is particularly fair. We have no idea who this is or what their personal situation is.
I'm not saying they're doing anything wrong. They're making a personal choice.
If this person happens to read this I imagine they might feel pretty shitty about being called a striver and an apologist

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AOT wrote:
lavarman84 wrote:
AOT wrote:
lavarman84 wrote:
If you can get a Kozinski clerkship, I think you'll have options. My guess is that the clerk is the sort of striver who gets a Kozinski clerkship from a lower-ranked school and views it from the perspective of, "If I stick by Judge when everyone else bails, he's going to love me for it and go out of his way to back me for whatever gig I want." The person also is probably rationalizing it in the way Nony described, "Well, I didn't see anything bad, and it hasn't happened to me."
I don't think this is particularly fair. We have no idea who this is or what their personal situation is.
I'm not saying they're doing anything wrong. They're making a personal choice.
If this person happens to read this I imagine they might feel pretty shitty about being called a striver and an apologist
If you're a Kozinski clerk, you're a guaranteed striver. I'm sure that person is well aware of that. I'm not insulting them. If I were in their shoes, I don't know if I'd do it differently.

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Post by A. Nony Mouse » Fri Dec 15, 2017 9:05 pm

@ lavarman - I don't know how, but that at once seems to criticize the person who stayed at the same time as suggesting staying would be reasonable. Impressive.

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Post by jd20132013 » Fri Dec 15, 2017 9:22 pm

If the new stories are true (no real reason to think they aren't) how arrogant do you have to be to respond to
The first wave in the dismissive way that he did ?

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Post by A. Nony Mouse » Fri Dec 15, 2017 10:45 pm

Kozinski? Arrogant?

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Post by JusticeJackson » Fri Dec 15, 2017 11:42 pm

I think we have no right to judge whether a clerk should stay at the job in the face of allegations against the judge. I grew up in a rough neighborhood, and some of my old friends have been accused of actual crimes (i.e. beyond just being incredibly creepy). My continued contact with someone that’s been accused of burglary isn’t an endorsement of the alleged burglary; I accept my friends notwithstanding their (alleged and unproven) faults and I really don’t think I owe anyone an explanation for my choice to maintain contact with those folks even in light of criminal accusations. In the same way, in my view, there’s nothing wrong with a clerk deciding “this isn’t what I signed on for, but I gave the judge my commitment and I’m going to keep it.”

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