Careers

Judicial Clerks

In order to provide excellent service to our clients, we strive to hire only the most qualified, dedicated and creative lawyers.

We believe that clerkships provide valuable experience and a fantastic opportunity for training with our nation’s judiciary, and we reward that experience: We offer clerkship bonuses that are significantly larger than many of our peer firms to incoming associates who join our firm immediately after clerking at the state supreme court, federal district or appellate levels, in the amount of $80,000 for a single clerkship and $105,000 for two or more clerkships (net of any clerkship bonus received previously from the firm or from another employer). We also pay competitive bonuses for clerkships at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit as well as the United States Supreme Court. Our clerks find that they are better lawyers for having seen the legal system operate from the inside, and we are committed to attracting the best and most motivated judicial law clerks in the country. In that regard, nearly 75 percent of our lawyers and over 80 percent of our litigators have clerked for federal or state judges. Below we include a list of the current attorneys at our firm organized by their clerkship.​

If you are currently clerking and are interested in applying for an attorney position, please click here. We recognize that different judges have different rules for when clerks may apply to firms. We generally begin to interview clerkship candidates in the fall and continue through the spring. For those whose judges do not allow clerks to apply until later in, or at the end of, their clerkship term, we continue to accept applications throughout the spring and summer. We are flexible and look forward to hearing from applicants from clerkships across the country.​

Please note that we do not pay recruitment or placement fees to search firms for any candidates applying directly from judicial clerkships.​

For additional inquiries, please contact:

Ms. Kevinn Villard, Director of Legal Recruiting
Tel. (213) 683-9242
[email protected]

U.S. Supreme Court

Justice Samuel A. Alito
Benjamin J. Horwich
2006-2006
Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.
Donald B. Verrilli
1984-1985
Justice Stephen Breyer
Jonathan Kravis
2005-2006
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ginger D. Anders
2004-2005
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Daniel B. Levin
2004-2005
Justice Elena Kagan
Andra Lim
2021-2022
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy
Kelly M. Klaus
1995-1996
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
Benjamin J. Horwich
2005-2006
Chief Justice John G. Roberts
Rachel G. Miller-Ziegler
2016-2017
Chief Justice John G. Roberts
Usha C. Vance
2017-2018
Justice Antonin Scalia
Henry Weissmann
1989-1990
Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Sarah Weiner
2020-2021
Justice Byron R. White
John W. Spiegel
1976-1977

U.S. District Court

District of Arizona

Judge G. Murray Snow
Henry D. Shreffler
2021-2022

Central District of California

Judge Percy Anderson
Cory M. Batza
2018-2019
Judge Jesus G. Bernal
Clare Kane
2020-2021
Judge Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr.
Gregory P. Stone
1977-1978
Judge Cormac J. Carney
Shannon C. Galvin
Aminirad
2018-2019
Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald
Sara A. McDermott
2016-2017
Chief Judge Phillip S. Gutierrez
Jason D. Weiss
2022-2023
Judge Irving Hill
Kevin S. Allred
1986-1988
Judge John W. Holcomb
Clare Kane
2020-2021
Judge David V. Kenyon
Glenn D. Pomerantz
1983-1985
Judge George H. King
Erin J. Cox
2009-2010
Judge George H. King
Jennifer L. Bryant
2013-2014
Judge John A. Kronstadt
James Salzmann
2019-2020
Judge John A. Kronstadt
William M. Orr
2019-2020
Judge John A. Kronstadt
Miranda E. Rehaut
2021-2022
Judge John A. Kronstadt
Ariella Park
2021-2022
Judge Nora M. Manella
Matthew S. Schonholz
2005-2006
Judge A. Howard Matz
Kuruvilla J. Olasa
2011-2012
Judge Beverly Reid O’Connell
David W. Moreshead
2016-2017
Chief Judge Virginia A. Phillips
Robin S. Gray
2018-2020
Judge Dean D. Pregerson
Laura D. Smolowe
2007-2008
Judge Dean D. Pregerson
Anne Kent Conley
2015-2016
Judge Dean D. Pregerson
Rosio Flores Arriaga
2018-2021
Judge Edward Rafeedie
Katherine M. Forster
2001-2002
Judge Edward Rafeedie
Bethany Woodard
Kristovich
2005-2006
Judge James Selna
Rowley J. Rice
2016-2017
Judge Christina A. Snyder
Laura R. Perry
2021-2022
Judge Josephine L. Staton
Tia Baheri
2020-2021
Judge Josephine L. Staton
Lorraine L. Abdulahad
2020-2021
Judge Dickran Tevrizian
Matthew S. Schonholz
2005-2006
Judge Stephen V. Wilson
Jeffrey Y. Wu
2005-2006
Judge Stephen V. Wilson
Jeremy A. Lawrence
2009-2010
Judge Stephen V. Wilson
Joseph D. Moses
2019-2020
Judge Stephen V. Wilson
Brian Rivas Boessenecker
 2019-2020
Judge Stephen V. Wilson
Joseph Glynn
2020-2021
Judge Otis D. Wright, II
Adam W. Kwon
2020-2021
Judge George H. Wu
Ted Kang
 2021-2022

Eastern District of California

Judge Kimberly Mueller
Skylar Brooks Grove
2015-2016
Judge Kimberly Mueller
Rachel M. Schiff
2020-2021
Judge William B. Shubb
Blanca Fromm Young
2001-2002

Northern District of California

Judge Vince Chhabria
Juliana M. Yee
2016-2017
Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr.
Raquel E. Dominguez
2021-2022
Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr.
Richard T. Johnson
2018-2019
Judge Lucy H. Koh
Emily C. Curran-Huberty
2013-2014
Judge Charles A. Legge
Martin D. Bern
1990-1991
Judge William H. Orrick, Jr.
Kelly M. Klaus
1992-1993
Judge William W Schwarzer
Carolyn Hoecker Luedtke
1999-2000
Judge Jon S. Tigar
Elissa A. Walter
2019-2020
Judge Vaughn R. Walker
Malcolm A. Heinicke
1997-1998
Judge Vaughn R. Walker
Benjamin J. Horwich
2004-2005

Southern District of California

Judge John S. Rhoades, Sr.
James C. Rutten
1997-1998
Chief Judge Gordon Thompson, Jr.
Kathleen M. McDowell
1984-1986

District of Columbia

Judge Amy Berman Jackson
Lauren A. Bilow
2019
Judge Corinne A. Beckwith
Mohamed Said
2021-2022
Judge Tanya S. Chutkan
Ruby J. Garrett
2018-2019
Judge Royce C. Lamberth
Andrew Delaplane
2021-2022

District of Delaware

Judge Sue L. Robinson
Vincent Y. Ling
2012-2013
Judge Leonard P. Stark
Gregory T. S. Bischoping
2018-2019

Southern District of Florida

Judge Rodolfo A. Ruiz II
Phillip H.C. Wilkinson
2022-2023

District of Hawaii

Judge Helen Gillmor
Michael E. Greaney
1996-1997
Judge Alan C. Kay
Kathleen Foley
2018-2019

Northern District of Illinois

Judge Edmond Chang
Faye Paul Teller
2012-2013
Judge Gary Feinerman
Lauren E. Ross
2017-2018

Judge Andrea R. Wood
Joseph Mantegani
2022-2023

Eastern District of Kentucky

Judge Amul Thapar
Usha C. Vance
2013-2014

District of Maryland

Judge Frank A. Kaufman
William D. Temko
1979-1980

District of Massachusetts

Judge Michael A. Ponsor
Victoria A. Degtyareva
2011-2012

District of Minnesota

Judge Nancy E. Brasel
Graham J. Wyatt
2022-2023

Eastern District of New York

Chief Judge Carol Bagley Amon
Stephanie Goldfarb Herrera
2015-2016
Judge Carol Bagley Amon
Allison M. Day
2015-2016
Judge Pamela K. Chen
Andrew Nguyen
2020-2021
Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall
Ruby J. Garrett
2017-2018
Judge William F. Kuntz, II
Sidney Moskowitz
2021

Southern District of New York

Judge George B. Daniels
Nicholas D. Fram
2012-2013
Judge Jesse M. Furman
Adeel Mohammadi
2020-2021
Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein
John M. Gildersleeve
2008-2009
Judge Richard J. Holwell
Heather E. Takahashi
2006-2007
Judge Richard J. Holwell
Justin P. Raphael
2010-2011
Judge John G. Koeltl
Rebecca L. Sciarrino
 2018-2019
Judge Lewis J. Liman
Bobby H. Kim
2022-2023
Judge Gerard E. Lynch
Ginger D. Anders
2002-2003
Judge Alison J. Nathan
J. Max Rosen
2016-2017
Judge J. Paul Oetken
Sarah Weiner
2017-2018
Judge Jed S. Rakoff
Elaine J. Goldenberg
1997-1998
Judge Kimba M. Wood
Peter A. Detre
1994-1995
Judge Kimba M. Wood
Jacob S. Kreilkamp
2003- 2004
Judge Kimba M. Wood
Simon K. Zhen
2020-2021
Judge Gregory H. Woods
Brianne Holland-Stergar
2021-2022

Northern District of New York

Judge Brenda K. Sannes
Jamie Luguri
2019-2020

District of Oregon

Judge Karin J. Immergut
Natasha Geiling
2022-2023

Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Judge John M. Gallagher
Jared Koch
2021-2022

Eastern District of Texas

Judge Robert W. Schroeder III
J. Kain Day
2019-2020

Southern District of Texas

Judge Lee H. Rosenthal
Bryan H. Heckenlively
2009-2010

Northern District of Texas

Judge David Godbey
Grace Davis Fisher
2017-2018

Eastern District of Virginia

Judge Raymond A. Jackson
Felipe De Jesús Hernández
2020-2021

U.S. Court of Appeals

First Circuit

Judge Levin H. Campbell
Miriam Kim
2004-2005
Judge Sandra Lynch
Elaine J. Goldenberg
1998-1999

Second Circuit

Judge José A. Cabranes
Richard C. St. John
1998-1999
Judge José A. Cabranes
Adeel Mohammadi
2021-2022
Judge Susan L. Carney
Allison M. Day
2016-2017
Judge Barrington D. Parker
Erinma Man
2020-2021
Judge Amalya L. Kearse
Bobby H. Kim
2021-2022
Judge Pierre N. Leval
Jenny Huang Hong
2006-2007
Judge Debra Ann Livingston
Adam R. Lawton
2007-2008
Judge Debra Ann Livingston
Adam B. Weiss
2010-2011
Judge Debra Ann Livingston
J. Max Rosen
2015-2016
Judge J. Edward Lumbard
Michael R. Doyen
1982-1983
Judge Jon O. Newman
Richard C. St. John
1997-1998
Judge Reena Raggi
Rebecca L. Sciarrino
2019-2020
Judge Sonia Sotomayor
Ginger D. Anders
2003-2004
Judge Richard J. Sullivan
Lorraine L. Abdulahad
2021-2022

Third Circuit

Judge Thomas Ambro
Faye Paul Teller
2013-2014
Judge Edward R. Becker
Benjamin J. Horwich
2003-2004
Judge Michael A. Chagares
Nicholas D. Fram
2013-2014
Judge John J. Gibbons
Brad D. Brian
1977-1978
Judge Thomas M. Hardiman
Matthew W. Linsley
2021-2022
Judge Kent A. Jordan
Vincent Y. Ling
2013-2014
Judge Kent A. Jordan
Abraham B. Dyk
2018-2019
Judge Kent A. Jordan
Gregory T. S. Bischoping
2020-2021
Judge Cheryl Ann Krause
Jing Jin
2019-2021
Judge Cheryl Ann Krause
Jessica O. Laird
2020-2021

Fourth Circuit

Judge Henry F. Floyd
Leonardo Mangat
2019-2020
Judge Diana Gribbon Motz
Stephany Reaves
2015-2016
Judge Roger L. Gregory
Felipe De Jesús Hernández
2021-2022
Judge Toby J. Heytens
Lyndsey N. Franklin
2022-2023

Fifth Circuit

Judge Catharina Haynes
Grace Davis Fisher
2018-2020
Chief Judge Priscilla Richman
Graham J. Wyatt
2021-2022

Sixth Circuit

Judge R. Guy Cole, Jr.
Andrew Nguyen
2019-2020

Seventh Circuit

Judge Amy J. St. Eve
Jamie Luguri
2020-2021
Judge Diane P. Wood
Emily C. Curran-Huberty
2012-2013

Eighth Circuit

Judge David Ryan Stras
Megan L. McCreadie
2018-2019

Ninth Circuit

Judge Arthur L. Alarcón
Jonathan E. Altman
1992-1993
Judge Arthur L. Alarcón
Bradley R. Schneider
2004-2005
Judge Carlos T. Bea
Richard T. Johnson
2019-2020
Judge Marsha S. Berzon
Ariella Park
2022-2023
Judge Patrick J. Bumatay
Jason D. Weiss
2021-2022
Judge Jay Bybee
Juliana M. Yee
2014-2015
Judge Richard Clifton
Mohamed Said
2022-2023
Judge Richard R. Clifton
Jonathan H. Blavin
2003-2004
Judge Morgan B. Christen
Simon K. Zhen
2021-2022
Judge Morgan B. Christen
Andrew Delaplane
2022-2023
Judge Daniel P. Collins
Miles W. Unterreiner
2022-2023
Judge Ferdinand F. Fernandez
Wesley T.L. Burrell
2012-2013
Judge Ferdinand F. Fernandez
David W. Moreshead
2017-2018
Judge Ferdinand F. Fernandez
Benjamin G. Barokh
2018-2019
Judge Raymond C. Fisher
Jacob S. Kreilkamp
2004-2005
Judge William A. Fletcher
Daniel B. Levin
2002-2003
Judge Michelle T. Friedland
Craig Jennings Lavoie
2014-2015
Judge Michelle T. Friedland
Stephanie Goldfarb Herrera
2016-2017
Judge Michelle T. Friedland
Andra Lim
2019-2020
Judge Michelle T. Friedland
Wesley P. DeVoll
2021-2022
Judge Alfred T. Goodwin
Rohit K. Singla
1998-1999
Judge Alfred T. Goodwin
Jeffrey Y. Wu
2006-2007
Judge Ronald M. Gould
Alison A. Doyle
2019-2020
Judge Ronald M. Gould
Kyle W. Mach
2007-2008
Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall
Lisa J. Demsky
1996-1997
Judge Sandra S. Ikuta
L. Ashley Aull
2009-2010
Judge Sandra S. Ikuta
Kuruvilla J. Olasa
2012-2013
Judge Sandra S. Ikuta
Lauren C. Barnett
2014-2015
Judge Sandra S. Ikuta
Colin A. Devine
2015-2016
Judge Sandra S. Ikuta
Margaret H. Thompson
2016-2017
Judge Sandra S. Ikuta
Rowley J. Rice
2017-2018
Judge Sandra S. Ikuta
William M. Orr
2020-2021
Judge Alex Kozinski
John L. Schwab
2013-2014
Judge Alex Kozinski
John B. Major
2014-2015
Judge Alex Kozinski
Anne Kent Conley
2016-2017
Chief Judge Mary H. Murguia
Phillip H.C. Wilkinson
2024-2025
Judge Dorothy W. Nelson
Jordan D. Segall
2012-2013
Judge Jacqueline H. Nguyen
Joseph Glynn
2021-2022
Judge John B. Owens
Cory M. Batza
2019-2020
Judge John B. Owens
Gabriel M. Bronshteyn
2020-2021
Judge John B. Owens
Taylor L. Benninger
2021-2022
Judge Richard A. Paez
Grant A. Davis-Denny
2003-2004
Judge Richard A. Paez
Clare Kane
2021-2022
Judge Richard A. Paez
Laura D. Smolowe
2006-2007
Judge Richard A. Paez
Jordan D. Segall
2011-2012
Judge Richard A. Paez
Xiaonan April Hu
2017-2018
Judge Johnnie B. Rawlinson
Alexis Danielle Campbell
2021-2022
Judge Stephen Reinhardt
Rose Leda Ehler
2012-2013
Judge Pamela Ann Rymer
Kelly M. Klaus
1993-1994
Judge Pamela Ann Rymer
Achyut J. Phadke
2008-2009
Judge Milan D. Smith Jr.
Jeremy A. Lawrence
2010-2011
Judge Gabriel P. Sanchez
Roman Leal
2023
Judge A. Wallace Tashima
Hailyn J. Chen
2004-2005
Judge A. Wallace Tashima
Sara A. McDermott
2015-2016
Judge Sidney R. Thomas
Brianne Holland-Stergar
2018-2019
Judge Sidney R. Thomas
Carson J. Scott
2021-2022
Judge J. Clifford Wallace
Martin D. Bern
1991-1992
Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw
Avery P. Hitchcock
2021-2022
Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw
Laura R. Perry
2022-2023
Judge Paul J. Watford
John B. Major
2013-2014
Judge Charles E. Wiggins
Stuart N. Senator
1989-1990
Judge Charles E. Wiggins
C. David Lee
1999-2000

Tenth Circuit

Judge Robert E. Bacharach
Ariel T. Teshuva
2018-2019
Judge Robert E. Bacharach
Janelle Krummen
2020-2021
Judge David M. Ebel
Dane P. Shikman
2016-2017
Judge David M. Ebel
Henry D. Shreffler
2016-2017
Judge Carolyn B. McHugh
Caleb W. Peiffer
2020-2021

Eleventh Circuit

Judge Rosemary Barkett
Victoria A. Degtyareva
2012-2013
Judge Beverly B. Martin
Xiaonan April Hu
2018-2019

District of Columbia Circuit

Chief Judge David L. Bazelon
Ronald L. Olson
1967-1968
Judge James L. Buckley
Henry Weissmann
1987-1988
Judge Harry T. Edwards
Lauren E. Ross
2016-2017
Judge Merrick B. Garland
Jonathan Kravis
2004-2005
Judge Merrick B. Garland
Rachel G. Miller-Ziegler
2015-2016
Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Michael E. Soloff
1983-1984
Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg
Bryan H. Heckenlively
2010-2011
Judge Brett Kavanaugh
Usha C. Vance
2014-2015
Judge Roger Robb
Joseph D. Lee
1982-1983
Judge David S. Tatel
Sarah Weiner
2018-2019
Judge David S. Tatel
Elissa A. Walter
2021-2022
Judge Robert L. Wilkins
Kathleen Foley
2019-2020
Judge J. Skelly Wright
Donald B. Verrilli
1983-1984

Federal Circuit

Judge Timothy B. Dyk
Giovanni Saarman González
2016-2017
Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore
J. Kain Day
2020-2022
Chief Judge Sharon Prost
Vincent Y. Ling
2016-2017
Judge Jimmie V. Reyna
Adam W. Kwon
2021-2022
Judge Richard G. Taranto
Evan Mann
2019-2020

State Supreme Court

California

Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuellar
Emily C. Curran-Huberty
2015-2015
Justice Leondra R. Kruger
Miles W. Unterreiner
2021-2022
Justice Leondra R. Kruger
Wesley P. DeVoll
2022-2023
Justice Goodwin H. Liu
Alexis Danielle Campbell
2022-2023
Justice Goodwin H. Liu
Leonardo Mangat
2020-2021
Justice Goodwin H. Liu
Giovanni Saarman González
2020-2021
Justice Goodwin H. Liu
Elissa A. Walter
2020-2021

Texas

Justice Harriet O’Neill
L. Ashley Aull
2007-2008

Wisconsin

Justice Annette Kingsland Ziegler
Janelle Krummen
2019-2020

Court of Chancery

Delaware

Judge Leo E. Strine Jr.
Jennifer M. Broder
2011-2012