Lower t14 top 10% - DC area clerkship?
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 4:39 pm
OK Team Awesome, idle conjecture time!
2L at GULC. Very good grades, decent connections with faculty, and significant work experience beforehand. I am going into Biglaw in DC right out of grad (assuming I don't somehow blow my SA summer or the bar, etc.). I'll have 2-3 publications before graduation and tentatively plan to have several more early in my legal career, unless somehow being a full-time lawyer is actually a lot of work (Perish the thought!)
One option I've been entertaining is applying for clerkships after working in Biglaw, assuming I don't love it enough to stay. I'm kinda tied to the general DC area (so think DC/4th Circuit). I'd want to do a federal clerkship because A. I think it would help me become a better litigator and/or understand the judiciary side of law, B. it might help open the door to future legal academic positions not currently available given that I didn't go to Yale/Harvard, and C. it might serve as a good transition out of BigLaw into something else (different private practice firm, government, etc.).
So TLS: Could I realistically get a DC federal clerkship and would it ever make sense to do that after several years in Biglaw (or are my thoughts above crazy/ill-informed)?
2L at GULC. Very good grades, decent connections with faculty, and significant work experience beforehand. I am going into Biglaw in DC right out of grad (assuming I don't somehow blow my SA summer or the bar, etc.). I'll have 2-3 publications before graduation and tentatively plan to have several more early in my legal career, unless somehow being a full-time lawyer is actually a lot of work (Perish the thought!)
One option I've been entertaining is applying for clerkships after working in Biglaw, assuming I don't love it enough to stay. I'm kinda tied to the general DC area (so think DC/4th Circuit). I'd want to do a federal clerkship because A. I think it would help me become a better litigator and/or understand the judiciary side of law, B. it might help open the door to future legal academic positions not currently available given that I didn't go to Yale/Harvard, and C. it might serve as a good transition out of BigLaw into something else (different private practice firm, government, etc.).
So TLS: Could I realistically get a DC federal clerkship and would it ever make sense to do that after several years in Biglaw (or are my thoughts above crazy/ill-informed)?