The Judicial Clerkship Program
UT Law has one of the most ambitious judicial clerkship programs in the nation that encourages students to consider judicial clerkships and to help them with the application process. The Law School has a clerkship team that consists of two faculty clerkship advisors, a director of judicial programs in the Law School’s Career Services Office and a clerkship administrator from the dean’s office. This team centralizes the clerkship application process, streamlines the obtaining of faculty recommendation letters, meets one-on-one with applicants, and organizes a series of presentations by judges and current and former law clerks. These initiatives have dramatically increased student awareness of and excitement about clerking.
The Law School encourages first-year students to consider clerkships early on and will hold an informational meeting before students register for second-year classes. Judicial clerkship advisors, along with a panel of judges and clerks, will explain what clerks do and how students can best position themselves to become attractive judicial clerkship candidates. Subsequent meetings as a 2L will help you prepare for the competitive judicial clerkship application process.
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