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Jones Day has employed almost 100 SCOTUS clerks in a dozen years; what number of are on this yr’s class?
Jones Day has employed 10 former U.S. Supreme Court docket legislation clerks from the October 2023 time period. (Photograph from Jones Day’s Dec. 10 press release)
Jones Day has employed 10 former U.S. Supreme Court docket legislation clerks from the October 2023 time period, including to an “already-deep bench of expertise,” in line with Noel Francisco, the companion in control of the legislation agency’s Washington, D.C., workplace and a former U.S. solicitor common.
Jones Day has recruited 96 Supreme Court docket clerks because the October 2011 time period, in line with a Dec. 10 press release.
Every of the excessive court docket’s conservative justices had employed a minimum of certainly one of Jones Day’s new associates. Justice Brett Kavanaugh employed three of them, whereas Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Justice Samuel Alito every employed two.
Solely about three dozen legislation clerks work for Supreme Court docket justices every time period, “which implies these legal professionals—and their unparalleled information of the court docket—are in extremely excessive demand,” the Washington Post reported in January.
Jones Day is “the chief within the race to recruit and rent as many clerks as doable,” the article reported.
What sort of a signing bonus can the previous Supreme Court docket clerks anticipate? A Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher spokesperson instructed the Washington Publish in January that bonuses have reached a brand new excessive of $500,000.
A Jones Day spokesperson didn’t instantly reply to an ABA Journal request for info on its signing bonuses.
Jones Day employed eight former Supreme Court docket clerks final yr and 7 in 2022, the National Law Journal reported in its story on the brand new associates.
