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Judicial Clerkship Handbook 2013 Career Services Office | CLERKSHIPS JUDICIAL CLERKSHIP HANDBOOK 2013 - 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS Overview of the Clerkship Program 2 Should I Seek a Clerkship? 3 Where Should I Apply to Clerk? 4 Type of Court 5 State Courts 5 Federal Courts 6 Federal District Court 7 Federal Appellate Court 7 Clerkships with Specialized Courts 8 Bankruptcy Courts 8 U.S. Magistrate Judges 8 U.S. Claims Court 9 U.S. Tax Court 9 Federal Circuit 9 U.S. Court of International Trade 9 U.S. Supreme Court 10 How Do I Apply for Clerkships? 11 Clerkship Application Materials 12 Cover Letter and Resume 13 Transcripts 14 Writing Sample 15 Letters of Recommendation 16 Envelopes and Labels 17 Step-by-Step Instructions 18 Clerkship Interviews, Offers and Acceptances 22 APPENDICES Appendix A: Timeline and Checklist Appendix B: USC Law School Graduates & Students with Clerkships Appendix C: USC Faculty Who Clerked Appendix D: California State Court Hiring Practices Appendix E: Optional Recommender Questionnaire Appendix F: Resources for Researching Judges and Courts Appendix G: Loan Repayment Assistance Program Appendix H: Supplemental Readings Appendix I: Sample Cover Letters Appendix J: Form of Address Appendix K: Mail-Merge Instructions Table of Contents OVERVIEW OF THE CLERKSHIP PROGRAM A judicial clerkship can be a very rewarding work experience for a recent law graduate, and it is a great way to begin your legal career in almost any area of practice. The Law School and the Clerkship Committee strongly support our students’ efforts to apply for judicial clerkships through several means, including the following: ASSIGNING YOU A CLERKSHIP ADVISOR If you participate in the Clerkship Program, we will assign a member of the Clerkship Committee or the Career Services Office to be your advisor throughout the application process. Your advisor can help you with many aspects of your clerkship applications, including the following: Deciding which courts to target Formulating a list of judges to whom to apply Selecting an appropriate writing sample Identifying the best recommenders to approach. WORKSHOPS, EMAILS AND WEBSITE TO HELP WALK YOU THROUGH THE PROCESS The Career Services Office, with the Clerkship Committee, will host workshops during your 2L Spring semester to explain the nuts and bolts of this logistics-intensive application process. In addition, the CSO will send frequent emails reminding you of upcoming deadlines and providing you with materials to help you prepare your applications. This handbook will serve as a handy reference for assembling your applications. Copies of the handbook, emails, and important instructional materials will be made available on the Judicial Clerkship Website. To access this site, log onto the portal, click on the Careers tab and select Judicial Clerkships from the Quick Links drop down menu. Check this site frequently during the summer for important updates. UPCOMING WORKSHOPS Tuesday, February 19, 2013: Nuts & Bolts of Clerkship Applications PACKAGING AND MAILING YOUR FINAL APPLICATIONS The Career Services Office will help you assemble your final application materials by providing envelopes and scheduling stuffing sessions to package your materials in August prior to the Hiring Plan deadline. For more information about assembling your application materials, please see page 11 of this Handbook. The Career Services Office will then send up to 100 clerkship applications for you. The Law School will both manage the logistics of sending these applications and absorb the postage costs. HELPING YOU PREPARE FOR INTERVIEWS As you start receiving interviews with judges, we will help you prepare by presenting a workshop on clerkship interviewing and by coordinating mock interviews for you with Law School graduates who recently clerked. For more information about preparing for clerkship interviews, please see page 23 of this Handbook. JUDICIAL CLERKSHIP LOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM Law School graduates who are clerking can participate in LRAP to help them manage educational debt burdens during their clerkship. You can read more about participating in LRAP during a judicial clerkship in Appendix G. Overview of the Clerkship Program SHOULD I SEEK A CLERKSHIP? A judicial clerkship is one of the best ways to transition from law school to practicing law, and it can be one of the most rewarding experiences of your legal career. The many benefits of clerking include the following: Clerkships are highly valued by firms and other employers. Many law firms pay a clerkship bonus plus salary and partnership credit of one year to encourage judicial clerkships. If you do not already have a job after graduation, a clerkship could help you secure one, whether at a private firm or in the public sector. If you already have a job, a clerkship could significantly increase your value to a law firm or other employer and earn you additional respect as you begin your career. Clerkships provide incomparable training to improve your writing, research, and analytical skills. The skills you learn as a clerk are readily transferable to almost any legal practice. Moreover, the intensive learning experience of a clerkship will build your confidence as a new lawyer. Clerkships offer behind-the-scenes exposure to the legal decision-making process. You will gain hands-on exposure to appellate or trial practice and insights into how judges make decisions which will assist you in any legal practice. Clerkships are great training for both litigators and transactional attorneys. Learning firsthand how judges reach decisions can equip you not just for litigation, but for a corporate or transactional practice as well. Corporate and transactional lawyers can learn how deals that end badly ultimately unfold in litigation. This can help transactional attorneys strategize and structure better deals for their clients. Clerkships give you responsibility and autonomy early in your career. As a clerk, you will work on actual cases and assist the judge in deciding important matters that help shape our legal system. Few, if any, jobs available to graduating students offer the kind of responsibility and autonomy a clerk has when participating in judicial decision-making in chambers. Clerkships provide a unique opportunity to help shape the law. Judges often discuss many important legal decisions with their clerks and assign their clerks the task of drafting opinions that will become published decisions. You have a chance to affect the outcome of serious legal disputes and draft decisions that shape our society’s legal framework. Clerks form lifelong mentoring relationships with their judge. Clerks often work in a close and collegial atmosphere with judges, developing relationships that last a lifetime and can help open a variety of doors for the former clerk. The relationships that clerks build with their fellow clerks are also invaluable. Clerkships help you assess other employment opportunities. Even if you already have a job after graduation, a clerkship gives you time to think about the direction you want your legal career to progress. A clerkship also affords you the opportunity to explore the legal markets of other parts of the country without having to settle there permanently. If you have any questions, please contact Professor Hannah Garry, Chair of the USC Law Clerkship Committee, or Ronald Han in the CSO. In addition, the Clerkship Committee can try to connect you with law graduates who clerked to answer any questions you have and discuss the benefits of clerkships. Should I Seek a Clerkship? 3 WHERE SHOULD I APPLY TO CLERK? As you decide where to apply for clerkships, you can consider a variety of factors, including the following: Type of court. Myriad courts offer clerkship opportunities, including state and federal courts, trial and appellate courts, and specialty federal courts. In addition, you can sometimes seek pro se clerk or staff attorney positions.1 You can read more about these types of courts in the rest of this Section. Geographic location. Consider where you would be willing to live for 1-2 years. You can increase your chances of obtaining a clerkship substantially by applying to more remote and less popular geographic locations. In addition, a clerkship can be a great way to briefly experience a part of the country where you would not otherwise live. Judge’s status. Consider whether you want to work for an active judge, a senior status judge, or a new appointee. Senior status judges often have smaller caseloads than active judges, and their clerks’ workload may be proportionally less than that of an active judge’s clerks. In addition, while active judges hire more clerks, senior status judges are often overlooked, so applying to senior status judges may increase your chances of securing a clerkship. Ideology. We do not advise that you greatly limit your list of judges based on judges’ ideological differences. Clerking for a judge with whom you may disagree can still be a rich learning experience and provide additional training in making arguments to someone with whom you disagree. Moreover, at the trial court level, most cases do not involve political issues but rather straightforward applications of legal principles. In addition, many judges prefer to hire clerks with political opinions that differ from their own to balance out their chambers. Finally, you may well have a greater impact working for a judge whose mind you might be able to change on occasion than a judge with whom you usually agree. Length of clerkship. While a clerkship typically lasts only one year, some judges require a two-year commitment. Think about whether you are willing to clerk for two years. Clerk’s role and interactions with judges. The tasks required of clerks vary widely from chambers to chambers. Some judges delegate opinion writing to clerks, while others write their own opinions. Some judges maintain a professional, impersonal relationship with their clerks, while others embrace their role as their clerks’ career mentor.
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