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Pre-Plan Hires: All Courts of Appeal
Category: United States Appellate Courts (2010 Cycle)

Now that we are about a month and a half before the official start of the 3L rush, it is a pretty good time to examine the state of pre-plan hiring.


Let's start with the bad news (well, for 3Ls at least): a whopping 47% of active federal court of appeals judges have engaged in at least some pre-plan hiring activity, with 20% of all COA judges being either completely done with hiring or not hiring at all.


activeCOA


Additional charts and commentary below the fold.


On the bright side, it appears that senior COA judges have thus far been somewhat less likely to snatch applicants early (that, or senior judges and/or their applicants are less likely to report hiring events).


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Here's how things aggregate active and senior COA judges:


allCOA


More charts and tables will be posted within the next few days.


Posted by lawclerkaddict at July 23, 2009, 10:15 PM 3 Comments.

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 Actually, that's pretty optimistic.

Jul 23, 2009, 10:24 PM 
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Of course, you don't know how much of the "known" slices should actually be in the interviewing/hiring/done categories.

 – Anonymous (Unregistered)

 
 

 Forgot to mention

Jul 23, 2009, 10:28 PM 
#2

All this data is based on what's in the LCA database, which is based on 1) hirings confirmed through OSCAR and 2) rumors/tips submitted to this site. While it's likely that some of the tips we get are inaccurate, I think in the aggregate the underreporting greatly outstrips the overreporting. So, my personal guess would be that 47% is a minimum, and realistically it's probably closer to 55-60%.

 – clurker

 
 

 2004

Jul 13, 2011, 9:42 PM 
#3

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for wiritng!

 – Amberlee (Unregistered)