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Federal and it’s not close
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Article III > State Supreme Court > other federal > state
This is right, except the last > in the series is more like a >>>>
Mentor
Federal by a long shot.
A lot of the responses here are ranking federal ahead of state clerkships by some degree (“by a long shot,” etc.) I would go a step further and say a state trial court clerkship is not a path to biglaw, full stop.
Enthusiast
So I came from a state trial court clerkship. It was definitely a stars aligning kind of thing. The firm I was initially hired at had a bunch cases in that state court at the time and thought it would be useful. I’m definitely the exception and not the rule. At my current firm I don’t think I know anyone else that did a state trial court clerkship. Everyone’s either federal or state Supreme Court.
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Federal all day
Federal and I wouldn’t even consider a state clerkship unless it’s a state appellate court, the sole possible exception in my eyes being DE.
Respectfully, every aspect of state court is a clown show. With few exceptions, the judges and lawyers are all clowns. I see no benefit to clerking at a clown show.
Didn’t want to sound rude 🤷♂️
Broadly speaking, federal unless it's a small sliver of state courts (eg ca supreme, de supreme, de chancery)
would the takes on state court extend to, for example, the NY commercial division? I’m just curious (not a clerk, not planning to, in BL already) but the commercial division clerk role seems like you’d get to work on interesting facts for disputes very relevant to other NY biglaw work, with judges with a specialization in complex commercial. again, just curious people’s thoughts rather than personally interested
It’s probably not a total waste of time. But I have worked at two V25 firms with large NY offices, and I have yet to meet an associate who clerked for NY state court, including at peer firms. I suppose lower tier (AmLaw 200) biglaw firms might be different.