Law Clerk Addict's Blog
Given the recent flurry of visitors, I want to restate a comment I made on the 2008 blog.
Do not tell me that I'm missing information or about how inaccurate my information is. If it's inaccurate and you can correct the errata, then tell me what to correct and I'll do so. If it's inaccurate but you have no factual information that can remedy the errata, save some anecdotal evidence of "at least a dozen" people who're clerking, or that "I can think of at least three that aren't listed," but you fail to name who they're clerking for, I'll ignore your comments. It's utterly unproductive. You must name the judge that a clerk from a given school is working for. I will not include generic tallies of reported clerks from a given school.
Check out http://lawclerkaddict2008.blogspot.com for this year's clerkship data.
Due to slow reporting, my own hectic schedule, and the inability to find a new primary source to aggregate information after the recent problems with AutoAdmit, updates will be rare. I'm putting the 2007 Summer Associate class statistics on hold until AutoAdmit cleans up its act, I find another source of information, or I find the time to contact recruiters directly. This page will be occasionally updated; see the comments if you'd like the uncollected data.
I wondered where the surge in posts came from, and I attribute it solely to the judicial diva (divo?) at Above the Law. A few comments.
First, this format is meant to be easy for me to do. Sorry, it's low-tech, but that's what you'll get from me. If you're capable of pressing Ctrl+F, you should find everything you need rather quickly and easily.
The chart below indicates the clerkship salary bonus that the Vault 100 (2008) firms offer federal COA clerks. Some notes:
-The chart uses the highest number for an office if different offices give different amounts.
-The chart uses only the official number of the firm, not the number that some may negotiate or that some clerks may receive for working for a particular judge or circuit.
-The second number indicates what, if anything, a two-year clerk receives (or "cbc" if case-by-case).
-Blanks are unknown data.
-All numbers are in thousands of dollars.
(The percentage represents the % of a given class that will be clerking for the 2007-2008 term. The denominators for class size include both full-time and part-time students. The numerators are not adjusted to exclude alumni who will clerk from current students, and include both alumni and current students.)
Comment: "How in the WORLD did you manage to get all of this inside information?!"
Answer: I've just been compiling it from this blog and comments posted, and from the Clerkship Notification Blog and comments posted there. That's it. Feel free to continue to share--many appreciate it.
Inactive judges and judges who did not hire any clerks this term (generally those with only career clerks) are so noted. A clerk serving a second or subsequent year in 2007-2008 is marked with [brackets].
I've only included clerks hired this year. A two-year clerk in the second year of a clerkship for 2007-2008, for instance, would not be included. I've been keeping some track of whether it's 3Ls or graduates, and I'll update that once we get some more data. Feel free to post anonymously. I'll add all the senior judges, and mark them as such, after I get more comfortable with the data and start getting wider results reported. Right now, I have absolutely zero data from any senior judge. Finally, I took most of my information from the Clerkship Notification Blog, linked in the sidebar, and for that I am truly grateful.
Howard: Cornell, Harvard
Lynch: Harvard, Harvard, Stanford
Selya: Duke, Harvard
Torruella: Columbia, Columbia, Columbia
Stahl (Sr.): NYU, Penn
Unavailable: Lipez, Campbell (Sr.), Coffin (Sr.), Cyr (Sr.)
Calabresi: Harvard, NYU, Penn, Yale
Hall: Brooklyn, NYU, Vermont
Jacobs: Columbia, Yale
Katzmann: Harvard, Harvard, NYU, Yale
Livingston: Columbia, Columbia
Pooler: Yale
Raggi: Harvard, NYU
Sack: Stanford, Yale
Straub: Chicago, Stanford
Sotomayor: Chicago, Stanford, Yale
Walker: Cornell, Texas, Yale
Wesley: Iowa, Penn, Yale
Cardamone (Sr.): Cornell
Feinberg (Sr.): Columbia
Kearse (Sr.): Columbia, Harvard, Harvard
Leval (Sr.): Columbia, Emory, Stanford
Newman (Sr.): Boston U, Duke
Miner (Sr.): none
Winter (Sr.): Yale
Unavailable: Parker, McLaughlin (Sr.), Meskill (Sr.), Oakes (Sr.)
Barry: Penn
Chagares: Brooklyn, Cornell
Fisher: Georgetown, Temple
Fuentes: Harvard, NYU
Hardiman: Duke
Jordan: Penn
McKee: Penn
Rendell: NYU, Penn
Scirica: Penn, Penn, Vermont
Sloviter: UCLA
Smith: Ave Maria, Dickinson, Georgetown, Harvard
Van Antwerpen: Temple, W&M
Aldisert (Sr.): Harvard, Oklahoma
Cowen (Sr.): Virginia
Greenberg (Sr.): Rutgers
Roth (Sr.): Duke, Texas
Stapleton (Sr.): Georgetown
Weis (Sr.): Columbia
Unavailable: Garth (Sr.), Nygaard (Sr.)
Gregory: Georgetown, Northwestern, Yale
King: Virginia, W&L, W&L, West Virginia
Michael: Georgetown
Motz: Michigan, NYU, Stanford, Virginia
Niemeyer: Notre Dame, Virginia, Yale
Shedd: Harvard, Harvard
Widener: Georgetown, Memphis, Tennessee
Wilkins: none
Wilkinson: Harvard, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Yale
Chapman (Sr.): Inactive
Phillips (Sr.): Inactive
Unavailable: Traxler, Williams, Hamilton (Sr.)
Benavides: NYU
Clement: Notre Dame, Richmond, Stanford
Davis: Emory, LSU
DeMoss: Texas
Dennis: Cleveland State, Stanford
Garza: Chicago, Georgetown, NYU
Jolly: Duke, Harvard, Stanford
Jones: Minnesota, Harvard, Texas
King: Houston, Texas
Owen: Harvard, Michigan, Texas, Yale
Prado: GWU, Texas
Smith: Texas, Virginia, Yale
Stewart: Tulane
Wiener: Columbia, LSU
Garwood (Sr.): Texas, Texas
Higginbotham (Sr.): Texas, Yale
Reavley (Sr.): Texas, Texas
Unavailable: Duhé (Sr.)
Boggs: Notre Dame, Virginia, Yale
Clay: Duke, UCLA
Cole: Boalt, Michigan, Yale
Cook: Akron, Columbia, Harvard, WUSTL
Daughtrey: Boalt, Chicago
Gibbons: Stanford, Stanford
Gilman: Boalt, Duke, Georgetown, NYLS
Martin: Boston U, Michigan, Virginia
McKeague: Ohio State
Evans: Virginia
Flaum: Northwestern, Northwestern
Kanne: Cornell, Michigan, Wisconsin
Manion: Ave Maria, Ave Maria, Notre Dame
Posner: Chicago, Stanford, Yale
Ripple: Fordham, Michigan, Virginia
Sykes: Harvard, Marquette, Notre Dame
Williams: Northwestern
Wood: Boalt, Chicago, Penn
Bauer (Sr.): Northwestern
Wood, Jr. (Sr.): Inactive
Benton: Duke, Missouri, WUSTL
Bye: Minnesota, UConn
Colloton: Chicago, Harvard, Iowa
Gruender: Duke, Notre Dame, WUSTL
Loken: Chicago, Minnesota, Yale
Melloy: Iowa, Iowa
Murphy: Duke, Michigan, Minnesota
Smith: Arkansas, Stanford
Wollman: Iowa
Bright (Sr.): Boston College, Georgetown, Penn
Hansen (Sr.): Minnesota
Magill (Sr.): Georgetown
Unavailable: Riley, Shepherd, Beam (Sr.), Bowman (Sr.), Fagg (Sr.), Gibson (Sr.), Lay (Sr.), Ross (Sr.)
Berzon: NYU, NYU, Stanford, Yale
Bybee: Columbia, Harvard, UCLA
Callahan: McGeorge
Clifton: Boalt, Hawaii, Stanford, Yale
Fisher: Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Yale
W. Fletcher: Boalt, Harvard, Minnesota, Yale
Gould: Georgetown, Michigan, UCLA
Hawkins: Columbia, Harvard, Stanford
Ikuta*: Columbia, Michigan, Stanford, USC, Vanderbilt
Kleinfeld: Harvard, Hastings
Kozinski: Stanford, Texas, Yale
Gorsuch: Boalt, Duke, Harvard, Stanford
Hartz: Harvard, Michigan, Stanford
Holmes: Georgetown, Harvard, Harvard
Kelly: Boston College, BYU, Fordham
Lucero: Duke, GWU, NYU, NYU
McConnell: Harvard, Northwestern, Yale, Yale
Murphy: Georgetown, Michigan
Tymkovich: Cornell, Harvard, Northwestern, Stanford
Baldock (Sr.): Seton Hall, W&L
Ebel (Sr.): Stanford, Stanford, Texas
Unavailable: Henry, O'Brien, Tacha, Anderson (Sr.), Barrett (Sr.), Brorby (Sr.), Holloway (Sr.), McKay (Sr.), McWilliams (Sr.), Porfilio (Sr.), Seymour (Sr.)
Barkett: Harvard, Stanford
Birch: Vanderbilt
Black: Duke, Notre Dame, Wisconsin
Carnes: Emory, Florida, GWU, Notre Dame
Dubina: Alabama, Alabama, Georgia
Edmondson: Stanford, Texas
Hull: Emory, Emory, GWU, Michigan
Marcus: Stanford
Pryor: Harvard, Notre Dame, Virginia
Tjoflat: Alabama, Duke, Harvard, Harvard, Texas
Wilson: Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Yale
Cox (Sr.): Alabama
Kravitch (Sr.): Texas, Tulane, Virginia
Unavailable: Clark (Sr.), Cox (Sr.), Fay (Sr.), Godbold (Sr.), Hill (Sr.)
Garland: Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Yale
Ginsburg: Columbia, Harvard, NYU
Griffith: Harvard, Harvard, Michigan
Kavanaugh: Harvard, Stanford, Virginia
Randolph: Chicago, Columbia, Yale, Yale
Rogers: Michigan, Stanford, Yale, Yale
Sentelle: North Carolina, Washington
Tatel: Columbia, Georgetown, Harvard, Stanford
Edwards (Sr.): NYU, Yale
Silberman (Sr.): Harvard
Williams (Sr.): Boalt, Virginia, Yale
Dyk: Harvard, Northwestern
Mayer: Michigan
Michel: Kent, Penn, Stanford
Moore: Harvard, Penn
Rader: George Mason, Washington
Schall: Duke, Vanderbilt, Virginia
Clevenger (Sr.): Penn
Archer (Sr.): None
Cowen (Sr.): Inactive
Plager (Sr.): None
Unavailable: Gajarsa, Linn, Lourie, Newman, Prost, Friedman (Sr.)