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Lessons From Long-Shot SCOTUS Clerks: Work Hard, Stand Out, Stay Grounded

We collected the stories of four unlikely SCOTUS clerks to provide a glimpse of how hard work, happenstance and well-placed mentors can pave a nontraditional path to the U.S. Supreme Court. Here's what they had to say.
41 minute read

The Recorder

Stanford No. 3 Among Supreme Court Feeder Schools

The 38 clerks that Stanford has sent over the past dozen years is about a third the amount sent by Harvard and Yale. The school has sent twice as many clerks to the court's liberal justices than its conservatives.
16 minute read

National Law Journal

Justice Thomas Ventures Beyond Elite Schools to Fill Clerkship Posts

In a system where justices pull heavily from their own alma maters and a handful of other top schools, Justice Clarence Thomas casts the widest net.
11 minute read

National Law Journal

SCOTUS Clerks: The Law School Pipeline

When it comes to Supreme Court law clerks, it's Harvard and Yale—and then everyone else. This chart ranks the top 15 law school feeders from 2005 to 2017. Go deeper for a justice-by-justice view.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Marcia Coyle Highlights NLJ's SCOTUS Clerk Series

Marcia Coyle, senior Washington correspondent at The National Law Journal, spotlights key findings in ALM's special report about diversity among U.S. Supreme Court law clerks.
1 minute read

Daily Report Online

11th Circuit Judge Isn't Worried About Decline in Oral Arguments—But Lawyers Are

The discussion of oral arguments was a secondary point in Judge William Pryor's piece in the New York Times, but he touched on a tension that has been developing between lawyers and judges for years.
10 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ninth Try Is a Charm for Lawyer Making First Oral Argument

The decline in oral arguments for federal courts is well-known and documented and has sparked concerned discussions between lawyers and judges.
10 minute read

Daily Report Online

U.S. Justices Turn Down Georgia LGBT Workplace Discrimination Challenge

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to decide whether the nation's workplace anti-bias law bars sexual orientation discrimination. The justices may soon have another opportunity to take up the closely watched question. The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard arguments Sept. 26.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Justices Turn Down LGBT Workplace Discrimination Challenge

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to decide whether the nation's workplace anti-bias law bars sexual orientation discrimination. The justices may soon have another opportunity to take up the closely watched question. The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard arguments Sept. 26.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Justices Turn Down 11th Circuit LGBT Workplace Discrimination Challenge

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to decide whether the nation's workplace anti-bias law bars sexual orientation discrimination. The justices may soon have another opportunity to take up the closely watched question. The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard arguments Sept. 26.
4 minute read

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