When he applied for clerkships as a law student, federal Judge Vince Chhabria broke what may be the cardinal rule in every law school’s career services office: he turned down both offers he received.
They just weren’t right for him, he told students during a recent talk at the University of Chicago Law School, drawing laughs as he joked that Professor Lior Strahilevitz, co-chair of the faculty clerkship committee, might be “mad at me” for offering such advice.