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Reneging acceptance - how common?
How common is it for someone to accept a clerkship offer for a far-away term and then withdraw for personal reasons? This question is inspired by the judges posting on OSCAR for 2027-28. I imagine it can’t be too unusual for someone to believe in good faith that they will move to a new city in four years, only to realize that’s not feasible in two or three years (e.g., they fall in love, have children, and/or gain new professional responsibilities in their current city). Are these judges incurring this risk, or do the acceptances always pan out?
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Re: Reneging acceptance - how common?
Well, first, the judge may not expect to get applicants for that term now. So the posting may not be “I am hiring for this term now” so much as “this is the next term I will be hiring for.”Anonymous User wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 3:45 pmHow common is it for someone to accept a clerkship offer for a far-away term and then withdraw for personal reasons? This question is inspired by the judges posting on OSCAR for 2027-28. I imagine it can’t be too unusual for someone to believe in good faith that they will move to a new city in four years, only to realize that’s not feasible in two or three years (e.g., they fall in love, have children, and/or gain new professional responsibilities in their current city). Are these judges incurring this risk, or do the acceptances always pan out?
If a judge does actively expect to hire now, this is pure speculation, but: I suspect judges hiring that far out are likely to be feeders/extremely “prestigious” with tons of applicants, so people who accept have a strong incentive to keep the job. And/or the judge is likely hiring off plan so hiring 1Ls who probably won’t establish a life/career before starting but will finish law school, do one clerkship, then move to this one.
It may well happen that someone who gets hired that far out withdraws, too. That is a long time off and I think that long a gap is unusual.
But I suspect that a judge who actually goes to the trouble of hiring that far out is a judge who is highly sought after.
