Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Concurring Opinions » The Legitimacy Crisis in Federal Law Clerk Hiring

Concurring Opinions » The Legitimacy Crisis in Federal Law Clerk Hiring
by Dave Hoffman
"This week, law professors are encouraged to call federal judges and ask them to pull from an enormous pile of clerkship candidates particular students whose merits might be otherwise obscured.  (Applications were delivered Tuesday to those Judges who are still “on plan“, and interviewing calls are supposed to go out Friday.) Unfortunately, the plan has entirely fallen apart, as wealthy law schools now are more than willing to package applications in the spring and summer.  This unravelling, long-predicted in some quarters, has two pernicious consequences – apart from encouraging judges to take applicants earlier in their law school careers, and consequently increasing the importance of first-year grades."

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