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More and more judges look for potential clerks with firm experience, rather than straight out of law school.
It depends. Why do you want the clerkship? And what level of clerkship are you competitive for and interested in applying?
Generally, this move won’t improve your partnership chances at your own firm. It may hurt your chances if your plan is to do a year and then come back.
It might be hard to lateral to another firm from the clerkship as effectively a fifth year. But I think some firms won’t mind this, if you are otherwise a competitive candidate and are going to what is perceived as a good clerkship (for example, a good district court judge in the district you want to practice).
It’s unclear what, if any, skills you will develop as a clerk coming in as a fourth year. If you haven’t done a lot of writing at the firm, it will likely improve your writing skills. But much of big law is managing discovery and a clerkship will do little to improve that.
All of that said, a clerkship can be a really cool job, if you get to work with a good judge. If you’re looking for a break from big law for a year, are competitive, and can deal with the timing issues in applying, it might be worth pursuing. If your goal is to stay at your firm and make partner, this is probably not worthwhile.
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I could see how it could be better for judges to have someone with more experience, but I’m curious how it affects OPs career to clerk that far out from law school.
I feel like 1-2 years is the sweet spot for people wanting to lateral after the clerkship. Is there no difference for a 4th year?
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It would be a struggle to go back into BigLaw like this at a lot of firms. You’d be wasting some of your most profitable years. That said, I’m sure a lot of firms would take late year clerks, especially if they were flexible on class year.
I’m clerking after 5 years in private practice. Love the change of pace. And I now feel fully refreshed and ready to get back to practice. I really do miss practicing. But it’s definitely a weird job market for me. Lots of interest, but I’m “too old” and “too expensive” for most firms. And even firms that want to hire me can’t get the hire approved by HR for my class year (and I’m even willing to take a ding on class year if they asked me). So, while it’s an amazing opportunity, just know that if you ultimately want to remain in private practice, doing a later clerkship can leave you in a bit of a job bind on the backend. That said, I would encourage you to clerk if you would like to. It opens a lot of doors and you will definitely improve your writing, even if you’re already a good writer.