SA Offer and Multiple Clerkships Forum

[cambriabold]

I'll be an SA at a V5 firm in the northeast this summer, and I'm trying to figure out what happens if I get an offer but then want to clerk more than once. Is it standard for firms to hold the offer open for maybe 2 years while you clerk? Or are they usually only okay with giving you 1 year? And do you have to officially accept the offer 3L fall for them to keep it open, or can you not accept/decline until the year before you'd actually start?

[Anonymous User]

I'll be an SA at a V5 firm in the northeast this summer, and I'm trying to figure out what happens if I get an offer but then want to clerk more than once. Is it standard for firms to hold the offer open for maybe 2 years while you clerk? Or are they usually only okay with giving you 1 year? And do you have to officially accept the offer 3L fall for them to keep it open, or can you not accept/decline until the year before you'd actually start?

My firm, a V10 most known for litigation, has no problem with holding offers open for multiple years throughout clerkships. I'm clerking for two years immediately following graduation and had no problem at all getting them to just leave my offer open throughout my entire time clerking. I did not need to formally accept or decline. I can't direct bill my bar expenses, but they will reimburse me for them when I eventually join the firm.

[nixy]

Whether you accept an offer or not often depends on the judge as well - some judges don't let their clerks to accept an offer until after they're done clerking, so you'd have to work that out on an case by case basis.

[abc12xq]

I'll be an SA at a V5 firm in the northeast this summer, and I'm trying to figure out what happens if I get an offer but then want to clerk more than once. Is it standard for firms to hold the offer open for maybe 2 years while you clerk? Or are they usually only okay with giving you 1 year? And do you have to officially accept the offer 3L fall for them to keep it open, or can you not accept/decline until the year before you'd actually start?

My firm, a V10 most known for litigation, has no problem with holding offers open for multiple years throughout clerkships. I'm clerking for two years immediately following graduation and had no problem at all getting them to just leave my offer open throughout my entire time clerking. I did not need to formally accept or decline. I can't direct bill my bar expenses, but they will reimburse me for them when I eventually join the firm.

Above is true for me also.

[Anonymous User]

I'll be an SA at a V5 firm in the northeast this summer, and I'm trying to figure out what happens if I get an offer but then want to clerk more than once. Is it standard for firms to hold the offer open for maybe 2 years while you clerk? Or are they usually only okay with giving you 1 year? And do you have to officially accept the offer 3L fall for them to keep it open, or can you not accept/decline until the year before you'd actually start?

My firm, a V10 most known for litigation, has no problem with holding offers open for multiple years throughout clerkships. I'm clerking for two years immediately following graduation and had no problem at all getting them to just leave my offer open throughout my entire time clerking. I did not need to formally accept or decline. I can't direct bill my bar expenses, but they will reimburse me for them when I eventually join the firm.

Above is true for me also.

Thirding. It didn't seem to be a big deal to them.