The New Lawyer Supplement
May 19, 2012
Career law clerks say their jobs are nice work if you can get it
Permanent law clerks find it easy to explain why they chose their position over associate life at a large law firm. Recent policy changes in the federal courts have made competition for those coveted clerk positions even stiffer.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
After Melissa Dawson graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law in 1995, she proceeded to a highly coveted position: a term clerkship for 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Dorothy W. Nelson. Then she followed in the footsteps of many new lawyers with fine credentials by joining a big law firm - in her case, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP.
After the birth of her second child, Dawson deci...
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