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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Although hard to believe, some lawyers who engaged in double federal clerkships (one in federal District Court followed by a clerkship at the appellate level in a federal Circuit Court) are having difficulty finding a desired job as a private sector attorney in Biglaw because litigation is not as profitable as are Biglaw firms' transactional practices.[/quote]

Lol.

This is utter nonsense; no one with a double fed clerkship is "having difficulty finding a desired job ... in Biglaw." Stop spouting this BS. [/quote]

+1.  I double. clerked. I made a fortune [b]and now am happily retired.[/b] Double clerking is how you get on SCOTUS. and that's how you get the SCOTUS signing bonus of $200k+[/quote]

Yes, but things are changing and have changed since the 1980s & 1990s. Litigation is a secondary practice at the majority of Biglaw firms. Some firms are reluctant to pay the huge bounty (advanced standing & significant signing bonus) for those with double federal clerkships over concern about their focus on litigation practice versus the more steady & profitable transactional practice areas.

The advice to make law review and to get a federal judicial clerkship is given here in a cavalier fashion as if those are easily attainable goals. They are not.[/quote]

What? You keep giving poor advice. Cut it out. Why do you keep arguing with people by implying [b]they went to law school in the 80s?[/b] And going on about how you think clerkships are only useful for those going into litigation and no law firm is going to ever hire any litigators? You keep going blah blah blah about this and it is just ridiculous. I'm not PP but I went to law school long after the 80s -- long, long after them -- and nothing has changed with regard to the prestige and desirability of federal clerkships. (I think your references to the "1980s & 1990s" is just ageist nastiness anyway -- if you are a lawyer, in a law firm, which I highly doubt, I would love for one of your partners to see what you are spouting on here).

Of course it isn't easy to get onto law review, and it isn't easy to get a fed clerkship either -- that doesn't mean you don't try. No one is suggesting "in a cavalier fashion" that OP's DC try to write-on to law review and apply for clerkships. It sounds like you are bitter or something. Overreacting at the very least and it causing you to give really bad advice in a nasty ageist way. If you are a lawyer you should check yourself before someone doxes you; this is not a good look. [/quote]

Some serious anger issues on display in the above post.

Sad that you insist on spreading outdated info.

Suggested that the posters went to law school in the 1980s/1990s because that poster wrote that he/she is now retired.[/quote]

Calling a PP "angry" again. Ad hominem. [/quote]

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