What is a good/competitive hourly rate for a law clerk at a firm in Southern California?

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This is a bowl for judicial law clerks (i.e. lawyers who work for judges). You will probably get more helpful answers in the general Law bowl.

To try and answer your question though, this will vary widely, particularly because non-biglaw firms have no set/market salary, and biglaw firms generally do not hire law clerks because they hire summer associates.

If I had to guess, maybe like $30ish dollars an hour at a small shop sounds reasonable though.

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