Judges usually hire from a mix of lower court judges. But it is interesting to see that Justice Alito has two employees of Justice Thomas Hardiman (3d Cir.), a fellow Conservative who sits on Justice Alito`s former court; Justice Kagan has two employees of Justice James Boasberg, D.D.C.; and Justice Gorsuch has two employees of Justice Frank Easterbrook (7th Cir.). (For a detailed analysis of the combinations of law schools and lower court judges that feed into which judges` chambers, see Feldman`s SCOTUS empirical article.) Baird said his articling with Justice Hardiman was a key factor in his bid to apply for the position of clerk of the Supreme Court. Kelley Schiffman`s name might ring a bell for some of you because she appeared on the OT 2021 writers` list. I have already reported that one of the employees of Justice Sotomayor of the 2021 EO had to leave the legal internship early and was replaced by Steven Marcus in January 2022. According to information and beliefs, Schiffman was the employee in question, and Judge Sotomayor brought her back so she could experience something she had missed. (Schiffman missed The Leak`s epic madness, but at least she can`t be blamed for being the leak, since she left before February, when Judge Alito`s Project Dobbs originally aired.) Over the past five semesters, we have seen a more balanced male-to-female ratio between clerk classes, with last year`s class almost evenly divided, 51% men and 49% women. The new class is the least balanced since the 2017 OT, which also had about two-thirds men, and it`s a throwback to the first twelve years of Roberts Court (2005-2017), a time when only a third of employees were women. “Professor Schwartzman helped me get this internship and all my previous internships. He has been helping me for over five years and I feel like his help has been an important factor in my success,” said Monaghan. “I learned how to do historical research when I was working for Professor Prakash, which showed me that I really enjoy this kind of work, so I was grateful for the opportunity.” “The first half of the year was really difficult. I wanted to be with my mom during her treatments,” Cass said. “My thoughts weren`t as much in class as they would have been if it hadn`t happened, so strangely enough, it helped me focus more on my studies and what I wanted to do when I was often at home.

All these things together helped [the internship] take shape. “I`m really excited to see the problems in these cases as they come up and think about it, not about how to argue one side or the other, but how to analyze the issue in question and consider what the precedent will be from that point on,” Cass said. It will be interesting to participate in this process in all the different courses – especially at SCOTUS level, but also in the eleventh and third circles. This is Cleary`s third legal internship: previously, in 2015, he served for Judge Debra A. Livingston on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit (Livingston is Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law at the School of Law) and in 2017 worked for Judge Richard J. Leon in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. “For someone straight from law school, an appeals court is a dream job — seeing all the lawyers come to court, see what good writing looks like, and really work on cases,” she said. “Justice Hardiman is not only a very thoughtful judge, but also an incredible mentor, and he was a great advocate for me when I applied for the internship with Justice Alito. Justice Hardiman works incredibly hard and takes the judicial oath very seriously. I learned so much from him.

“It has been a privilege to learn from Justices Livingston and Leon, two role models in the profession. Those years, along with my time at Columbia, formed the foundation of my legal career,” says Cleary. “My colleagues and I have witnessed strong advocacy on appeal and at the court level and have dealt with a variety of cases.” Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.`s four trainee lawyers were identified as Samuel Adkission, Christina Gay, Maxwell Gottschall and Dennis Howe. Justice Clarence Thomas will work with employees Christopher Goodnow, Steven Lindsay, Michael Proctor and Jose Valle. Judge Samuel Alito Jr. hired Shelby Baird, Thomas Gaiser, Eric Palmer and Edward West Jr. “Shelby`s talent and drive was obvious to everyone who watched her at Duke Law,” Abrams said. “We are thrilled that she is now adding a law clerk position at the Supreme Court to her already long list of accomplishments and we are proud to have laid the foundation for her legal career.” In OT 2021, Chicago had nine employees at SCOTUS, enough to push Harvard, the usual #2, to third place. But in OT 2022, Harvard and Stanford are #2 and #3, respectively, with eight and seven SCOTUS employees, respectively. Chicago is at #4, with three employees – absolutely respectable, but not the record harvest it enjoyed last year.

Cleary is the third Columbia Law graduate to work for Judge Alito. He succeeds Matthew Schwartz `03 and Jonathan Berry `11, who clerked for the Supreme Court justice in 2006 and 2015, respectively. Baird is the fifth Duke law graduate to work for Justice Alito and the eleventh to be selected for a law clerk position on the Supreme Court since 2010. Most recently, Hunter Bruton `16 served as a clerk during the court`s tenure in 2019-2020. 3. Feeder schools. The class of public servants in the 2022 EO is not gender-diverse, not racial/ethnicity-diverse, and not diverse in law schools. The 38 employees came from just ten law schools, compared to twelve schools for EO 2021.

Here is the ranking, with the number of clerks indicated in parentheses: Prof. LOMBARDI: Well, each judge treats his employees very differently. I mean, the appeal judges will have three or four employees — that`s their choice — and he chose four employees. Some use them largely as research assistants, as far as I know, don`t care much about their views. Some judges are very interested in points of view. We had lively discussions on the . (incomprehensible). It was a very open and respectful environment, and I think the judge wanted to hear from all parties when weighing the most difficult cases. Registrars may be assigned to other judges whenever a judge retires. The judges each work with four clerks.

“I am very pleased that the judge has selected Alito Shelby as one of his trainee lawyers,” said Robinson O. Everett, Nita Farahany Professor of Law. “She brings a unique combination of a brilliant legal mind, compassion for others, openness to other perspectives, balance, maturity and life experience that will make her an outstanding clerk of the Supreme Court. She was an outstanding student in every way – in law and bioethics, in her courses, in her scholarship, in her involvement in the community and in her leadership. Baird met with Justice Alito at his Duke Law Seminar, Current Issues in Constitutional Interpretation, which he has taught since 2009. “I had always admired him before I went to law school, but when I took his course, I realized that I saw the law the same way and that inspired me to apply for an internship with him,” she said. “Daniella is a lovely and extraordinary person,” Wiener said. “My ACUS colleagues and I had the privilege of working with her while she was studying at Penn Law. She brought her strong legal acumen and excellent writing skills to several ACUS projects that addressed innovative administrative law issues. His passion and ever-increasing knowledge of administrative law will serve him and the federal judiciary well during his articling periods. 4.

Foster judge. Forty-three different judges have sent clerks to the Court this legislature, compared to 46 in OT 2021 and 39 in OT 2020. Here are the 15 relief judges with more than one clerk on the ground for OT 2022, with the number of clerks listed in parentheses: Despite all the recent drama, Yale Law remains #1 when it comes to hitting SCOTUS employees, with twelve employees — nearly a third of all employees and the same number it had in its last term.