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Federal Courts Limit Career Law Clerks

Sue Altmeyer, Electronic Services Librarian, sue.altmeyer@law.csuohio.edu | September 19, 2007 - 18:26

The Judicial Conference of the United States voted to restrict federal judges to one career law clerk. The recent trend has been for judges to have more than one career clerk. Now, one clerk must be a "term clerk" who stays on for four years or less. Existing career clerks will not necessarily lose their status. If a judge has more than one career clerk, the career clerks will be able retain their career clerk status with the judge's consent. Additionally, if a judge leaves the bench, another federal judge can hire the departing judge's career clerk, and they will not lose their career clerk status. The Judicial Conference hopes to save money by hiring clerks out of law school at a lower salary. See U.S. Courts Press Release. Source: Pamela A. MacLean, Judicial Conference Votes to Curb Career Clerks, National Law Journal, Sept. 24, 2007 (from the email preview).


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