Consequences of rescinding on state supreme court judge? Forum

[Anonymous User]

State court applications are going on now (or should have already gone out). So what if I end up with an interview, and an offer at a state supreme court where I'm okay with working (say, e.g., Alaska), but prefer to be elsewhere, and then during the federal clerkship hiring plan I get an offer from a federal judge. To take it one step further, what if the offer comes from a highly preferable state (say, e.g.. EDNY). Is there any negative consequences to rescinding from the state supreme court judge? ... I can't think of any reason I would ever need to go back to, e.g., Alaska, and I can't really think of much that my school could do at this point as a 3L, and obviously EDNY would be the hands down more prestigious and career boosting clerkship. Thoughts?

[thesealocust]

never mind

[ScaredWorkedBored]

This will generally get you blackballed from your law school forever. This will also put you in enormous shit with the "better" judge if he finds you did this - and the odds he'll find out (say, from the very pissed off state supreme court judge) are quite high.

[TTTGrad]

This would be tantamount to professional seppuku. Don't do it.