Best and worst judges to clerk for Forum

[Anonymous User]

I think she was known as a hot bench on CA2, which got some attention when she was nominated, but that doesn’t mean she treats her clerks badly. Easterbrook is a hellacious bench and treats his clerks well.

[Anonymous User]

Any info on Tuchi in AZ?

[Anonymous User]

Interested in applying to Robin Rosenbaum (Eleventh Circuit) among other 11th cir. But read in other forum she works clerks hard-it said until 11PM “routinely”. Is this true?

[Anonymous User]

Interested in applying to Robin Rosenbaum (Eleventh Circuit) among other 11th cir. But read in other forum she works clerks hard-it said until 11PM “routinely”. Is this true?

Rosenbaum has kind of a hokey and bombastic writing style imo, and if you see a fight over collegiality when dissenting, etc. on the 11th she always seems to be involved, but I have no idea what her chambers is like

[Anonymous User]

Judge Nannette Brown from ED of LA is a big avoid. Others are welcome to elaborate -- I don't feel comfortable going into more detail and potentially outing someone. However, I haven't seen her mentioned so I feel obligated to warn others.

[Anonymous User]

Judge Nannette Brown from ED of LA is a big avoid. Others are welcome to elaborate -- I don't feel comfortable going into more detail and potentially outing someone. However, I haven't seen her mentioned so I feel obligated to warn others.

Anyone from my school who applies to her is told firmly but certainly by the career office not to apply for this reason. I think I had 70+ judges on my initial app list, and she was the only one for whom a warning was merited.

[Anonymous User]

Judge Nannette Brown from ED of LA is a big avoid. Others are welcome to elaborate -- I don't feel comfortable going into more detail and potentially outing someone. However, I haven't seen her mentioned so I feel obligated to warn others.

Anyone from my school who applies to her is told firmly but certainly by the career office not to apply for this reason. I think I had 70+ judges on my initial app list, and she was the only one for whom a warning was merited.

Did they said why?

[Anonymous User]

Anon because obviously don't want to be identified by school. I talked to an alum of my school who said both she and her predecessor had a miserable year due to anger and name-calling, late nite phone calls, and a general lack of mentorship.

[Anonymous User]

Any info on Tuchi in AZ?

Tuchi is absolutely beloved by clerks and his students alike. And I am neither a former clerk nor a former student- his reputation is just that good, and that widespread.

[Anonymous User]

There was some discussion of Daniel Collins on the 9th as being a bad judge to clerk for. Does anyone have any info on that or was it solely based on the LA Times article complaining that he dissents a lot? Because he's been immensely successful at that and has now gotten the Court to unanimously sign onto his reasoning twice in two years: https://twitter.com/fedjudges/status/13 ... 7719495686

[Anonymous User]

There was some discussion of Daniel Collins on the 9th as being a bad judge to clerk for. Does anyone have any info on that or was it solely based on the LA Times article complaining that he dissents a lot? Because he's been immensely successful at that and has now gotten the Court to unanimously sign onto his reasoning twice in two years: https://twitter.com/fedjudges/status/13 ... 7719495686

I have heard he can be demanding and isn't super warm and fuzzy, but nothing actually bad.

[Anonymous User]

Some SD Iowa intel from a recent clerk. Ebinger has a mixed reputation with the bar--smart but very formal which runs against the local culture--but is good to her clerks. Rose is probably the best clerkship and the best-regarded, but only does two-year terms. Jarvey is not hiring obviously. Pratt is public-interest-focused and a great guy but pretty senior now and maybe a little checked out.

[Anonymous User]

Some SD Iowa intel from a recent clerk. Ebinger has a mixed reputation with the bar--smart but very formal which runs against the local culture--but is good to her clerks. Rose is probably the best clerkship and the best-regarded, but only does two-year terms. Jarvey is not hiring obviously. Pratt is public-interest-focused and a great guy but pretty senior now and maybe a little checked out.

Thanks! What about the Northern District of Iowa? I've heard good things about Judge Williams and mixed things about Judge Reade, but nothing about Judge Strand. The Northern District also seems extraordinarily busy so info on work-life up there would be nice.

[Anonymous User]

Lynn Hughes on SD Tex just cot reversed by CA5 for generally being a crackpot.

https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/p ... 53-CV0.pdf

He has had a couple of notable sexism controversies before, probably best to avoid.

Whatever help they've gotten Lynn Hughes seems to have worked for a short while:

"The judge also denounced the plaintiffs for equating the vaccine mandate to forced experimentation by the Nazis against Jewish people during the Holocaust. "Equating the injection requirement to medical experimentation in concentration camps is reprehensible," Hughes said. "Nazi doctors conducted medical experiments on victims that caused pain, mutilation, permanent disability, and in many cases, death.""

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... -dismissal

[Anonymous User]

Some SD Iowa intel from a recent clerk. Ebinger has a mixed reputation with the bar--smart but very formal which runs against the local culture--but is good to her clerks. Rose is probably the best clerkship and the best-regarded, but only does two-year terms. Jarvey is not hiring obviously. Pratt is public-interest-focused and a great guy but pretty senior now and maybe a little checked out.

Thanks! What about the Northern District of Iowa? I've heard good things about Judge Williams and mixed things about Judge Reade, but nothing about Judge Strand. The Northern District also seems extraordinarily busy so info on work-life up there would be nice.

Reade is a notoriously rough judge on criminal defendants and isn't very active. She might be a perfectly good boss--I don't know any Reade clerks--but from what I know she'd be my last choice of the Iowa judges.

[Anonymous User]

Anybody know what Lamberth is like?

[Anonymous User]

Anybody know what Lamberth is like?

Super Texan, loves UT. I don’t know anything else.

[Anonymous User]

Any thoughts on Analisa Torres, Andrew Carter, or Ronnie Abrams? (SDNY),

[Internationalist]

Any thoughts on Analisa Torres, Andrew Carter, or Ronnie Abrams? (SDNY),

Andrew Carter is amazing. Very thoughtful in general, but incredibly considerate of his clerks specifically.

[Anonymous User]

Any thoughts on Chen (EDNY)?

[Anonymous User]

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/ ... -15498.pdf

Today would be a great day to dish on that Judge VanDyke orientation video.

(But then again, so would any other day.)

[Anonymous User]

Any thoughts on Chen (EDNY)?

From my personal experience interacting with her, she's awesome and her clerks love her. She's smart and thoughtful, gives her clerks a lot of independence, and is a great mentor.

[Anonymous User]

Any thoughts on Chen (EDNY)?

From my personal experience interacting with her, she's awesome and her clerks love her. She's smart and thoughtful, gives her clerks a lot of independence, and is a great mentor.

also heard she is an incredible mentor

[GoneSouth]

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/ ... -15498.pdf

Today would be a great day to dish on that Judge VanDyke orientation video.

(But then again, so would any other day.)

This opinion is so unnecessarily personal toward Judge Fletcher. It’s telling that even Judge R. Nelson, who dissented from the panel opinion, did not join it.

[Anonymous User]

This opinion is so unnecessarily personal toward Judge Fletcher. It’s telling that even Judge R. Nelson, who dissented from the panel opinion, did not join it.

It just boggles. Part of being a Circuit judge is being a repeat player. You'll have to work with these people for a large part of the rest of your life. Why start off this way?