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CoA Clerk Looking In-House

Post by Anonymous User » Thu Jun 25, 2020 9:44 pm

About to start a COA clerkship after 3+ years of BigLaw. Can BigLaw litigation --> COA --> in-house be done? I think there may be a fairly well-established path at particular corporations like Boeing that really value litigation experience in counsel hires, but more broadly, what's the lay of the land?

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Re: CoA Clerk Looking In-House

Post by The Lsat Airbender » Thu Jul 02, 2020 6:26 pm

The clerkship makes things tougher rather than easier. Insofar as they want litigators in the first place, companies want litigation experience, not clerkship experience. And there's an annoying timing issue because your clerkship will end at a set date, whereas if you were at a firm right now you could leave on short notice whenever the right opp came up.

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Re: CoA Clerk Looking In-House

Post by 1styearlateral » Sat Jul 04, 2020 9:28 am

Firms want clerks primarily because they have ties to the court/judge, which can be helpful in litigation. Corporations don’t really try/litigate their own cases (despite what you see on tv), so the appeal to clerks isn’t really there. They need experienced litigators to manage outside litigation counsel.

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