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Federal judicial clerkships are regarded as prestigious apprenticeships for lawyers.
Online applications launched last week, and the next four months are key for preparation.
Since preferences differ from judge to judge, it s crucial to research and personalize your approach.
Federal judicial clerkships are often seen as extra gold stars on a lawyer s track record.
Acting as apprentices to the decision-makers at courts, clerks assist judges with legal research and drafting, reviewing, and editing court decisions and memoranda, receiving substantive feedback from the judges in return. Because they re embedded into the day-to-day, inner workings of a courthouse, clerks become intimately familiar not only with how a judge thinks and makes decisions, bu