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That is, no *judicial* clerking experience
Just checked and it looks like they do. Just sent an email to get some more info from them. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and pointing me in the right direction!
Also, any thoughts on whether the professor track could potentially be a workaround the clerkship issue? I know a few professors have had success in breaking into the federal judiciary, but they were also at the zenith of their field (Scalia, Frankfurter, etc.) so they may just be outliers
I guess there’s always a unicorn but getting to a high level federal clerkship, the SG’s office, and/or a professorship without top of the class grades, law review, or lower level clerkships?!? Short of a FedSoc membership and family money being funneled to a powerful Senator for a decade, I’m not sure ANYONE can thread that needle.
And this profession being as snobby as it is, I wouldn’t be surprised if experience in admin law land (immigration) isn’t also a demerit of sorts. Appellate folks already look down their noses at litigators; I wonder what they think of the non-civil lit world.
I would second DLA1’s suggestions about other federal gigs, if your interest in federal service is wider than SCOTUS clerk and the SG’s office. Plenty of federal agencies have attorneys and hire without fancy clerkship bona fides.
If you do decide to jump on the Article III clerkship ladder though, you might have to convince the wife to move to a flyover state for a year or two, too. I know people that finished Top 10% of non T14 schools that had to go to TX, MO, CO, and NE for federal clerkships, particularly if you don’t have the conventional credentials and need to work your way up. That whole scene is an idiosyncratic trip. (They are all very happy about life and their experience now, but that wasn’t always the case.)