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Judicial clerkships tend to be a valuable experience to an attorney's career because of the work involved in both substantive and procedural issues. In many cases, a clerkship is a critical stepping stone into real practice. Most, if not all, major law firms pay "clerkship" bonuses to new associates who have completed a full one year clerkship ...
A recent analysis found judicial clerkships were made up of 77 percent white graduates and 23 percent graduates of color. An effort is underway to diversify the prestigious positions.
A law clerk, judicial clerk, or judicial assistant is a person, often a lawyer, who provides direct counsel and assistance to a lawyer or judge by researching issues and drafting legal opinions for cases before the court. Judicial clerks often play significant roles in the formation of case law through their influence upon judges' decisions.
The Texas District Courts form part of the Texas judicial system and are the trial courts of general jurisdiction of Texas. As of January 2019, 472 district courts serve the state, each with a single judge, elected by partisan election to a four-year term.
[4]: 433 The apprenticeship program for solicitors emerged, structured and governed by the same rules as the apprenticeship programs for the trades [4]: 434 Oxford and Cambridge did not see common law as worthy of study, and included coursework in law only in the context of canon and civil law, and for the purpose of the study of philosophy or ...
Judicial Clerkship Handbook, USC Gould Law School, 2013-2014, p. 33, Appendix B. "List of law clerks," The Papers of Justice Tom C. Clark, Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas Law School. Retrieved August 11, 2016. Newland, Charles A. (June 1961).
Judicial Clerkship Handbook, USC Gould Law School, 2013-2014, p. 33, Appendix B. "Law Clerks of Chief Justice Earl Warren," Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (2015). Retrieved August 15, 2016. Newland, Charles A. (June 1961).
Note that, due to the several changes in the size of the Court since it was established in 1789, two seats have been abolished, both as a result of the Judicial Circuits Act of 1866 (and before the Court established the practice of hiring law clerks). Consequently, neither "seat 5" nor "seat 7" has a list article.