I asked this in the clerks taking question forum, but figured I would also ask it here.
I am clerking for a Judge in his/her 80s in 2025 and I know this is morbid, but I am worried what would happen if they die? I know there is a practice in SCOTUS that the clerks get placed with other Justices. Is that typically done on the circuit level too?
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Re: Older Senior Judge
It's not guaranteed, but it seems usually to be the practice (with District Judges, too). You've been hired for a year, you're in the system, and judges are happy to have another employee helping out.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:56 amI asked this in the clerks taking question forum, but figured I would also ask it here.
I am clerking for a Judge in his/her 80s in 2025 and I know this is morbid, but I am worried what would happen if they die? I know there is a practice in SCOTUS that the clerks get placed with other Justices. Is that typically done on the circuit level too?
This has happened to a few people I know. Each time, they ended up with another judge to finish out their terms . . . with one being kept on an additional year.
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Re: Older Senior Judge
Does this apply even if you have not yet started clerking. In other words, the judge dies before I start?Quichelorraine wrote: ↑Sat Jan 21, 2023 12:26 pmIt's not guaranteed, but it seems usually to be the practice (with District Judges, too). You've been hired for a year, you're in the system, and judges are happy to have another employee helping out.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:56 amI asked this in the clerks taking question forum, but figured I would also ask it here.
I am clerking for a Judge in his/her 80s in 2025 and I know this is morbid, but I am worried what would happen if they die? I know there is a practice in SCOTUS that the clerks get placed with other Justices. Is that typically done on the circuit level too?
This has happened to a few people I know. Each time, they ended up with another judge to finish out their terms . . . with one being kept on an additional year.
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Re: Older Senior Judge
This happened to the clerks of a deceased senior judge during my term, and iirc they did not get to finish the full term. Due to an AO rule they only could be kept on payroll for a certain number of months. They did get shifted to an active judge for those months though.Quichelorraine wrote: ↑Sat Jan 21, 2023 12:26 pmIt's not guaranteed, but it seems usually to be the practice (with District Judges, too). You've been hired for a year, you're in the system, and judges are happy to have another employee helping out.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:56 amI asked this in the clerks taking question forum, but figured I would also ask it here.
I am clerking for a Judge in his/her 80s in 2025 and I know this is morbid, but I am worried what would happen if they die? I know there is a practice in SCOTUS that the clerks get placed with other Justices. Is that typically done on the circuit level too?
This has happened to a few people I know. Each time, they ended up with another judge to finish out their terms . . . with one being kept on an additional year.
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