Jones Day has hired nearly 100 SCOTUS clerks in a dozen years; how many are in this year’s class?

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Jones Day has employed almost 100 SCOTUS clerks in a dozen years; what number of are on this 12 months’s class?

By Debra Cassens Weiss

December 12, 2024, 12:43 pm CST

Jones Day has employed 10 former U.S. Supreme Courtroom regulation clerks from the October 2023 time period, including to an “already-deep bench of expertise,” in keeping with Noel Francisco, the associate in command of the regulation agency’s Washington, D.C., workplace and a former U.S. solicitor normal.

Jones Day has recruited 96 Supreme Courtroom clerks because the October 2011 time period, in keeping with a Dec. 10 press launch.

Every of the excessive court docket’s conservative justices had employed at the very least certainly one of Jones Day’s new associates. Justice Brett Kavanaugh employed three of them, whereas Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Justice Samuel Alito every employed two.

Solely about three dozen regulation clerks work for Supreme Courtroom justices every time period, “which suggests these legal professionals—and their unparalleled information of the court docket—are in extremely excessive demand,” the Washington Publish reported in January.

Jones Day is “the chief within the race to recruit and rent as many clerks as attainable,” the article reported.

What sort of a signing bonus can the previous Supreme Courtroom clerks count on? A Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher spokesperson informed the Washington Publish in January that bonuses have reached a brand new excessive of $500,000.

A Jones Day spokesperson didn’t instantly reply to an ABA Journal request for info on its signing bonuses.

Jones Day employed eight former Supreme Courtroom clerks final 12 months and 7 in 2022, the Nationwide Legislation Journal reported in its story on the brand new associates.