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Typed one (1) order in a year of working, that was the only ...
Flushed Base
  02/22/18
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Obsidian black woman
  02/22/18
holy shit. i clerked in a non-federal court and i think i...
Frozen flesh corner
  02/22/18
LMAO. I clerked on COA. Wrote five opinions in a year. Did l...
wine swashbuckling hospital
  02/22/18
JFC
Fishy Ape Brethren
  02/22/18
I recently went to a CLE where this old COA judge who is a n...
Apoplectic sapphire potus trailer park
  02/22/18
How did you land it? Above median from HLS?
Orange Electric Furnace
  02/22/18
Top 10% @ CCN
wine swashbuckling hospital
  02/22/18
Thought so. FML, FTGE.
Orange Electric Furnace
  02/22/18
After about six months I was a little put out that I wasn’t ...
Flushed Base
  02/22/18
Yeah this, I wrote like a madman and was miserable every mom...
Hilarious crimson theater stage filthpig
  02/22/18
My judge made s lot of money in the 79’s and 89’s practicing...
Flushed Base
  02/22/18
My judge was the most senior trial judge in S.C., notorious ...
Flushed Base
  02/22/18
i tried to cop a clerkship with some old judge in kansas whe...
Hilarious crimson theater stage filthpig
  02/22/18
Yea I got that job through connections, not grades. He neve...
Flushed Base
  02/22/18
holy shit
Frozen flesh corner
  02/22/18
Ok state trial court judge is not a "judicial clerkship...
cerebral mildly autistic tattoo haunted graveyard
  02/22/18
Hahahaha sure
Flushed Base
  02/22/18
? it's the job title.
Frozen flesh corner
  02/22/18
It's an unpaid volunteer position in most states
cerebral mildly autistic tattoo haunted graveyard
  02/22/18
I was paid
Flushed Base
  02/22/18
Did you go to a t14?
cerebral mildly autistic tattoo haunted graveyard
  02/22/18
TTT supreme law school. Went to the right undergrad though
Flushed Base
  02/22/18
lmao dat Clemson ug to Charleston SOL connection ?
cerebral mildly autistic tattoo haunted graveyard
  02/22/18
Think smaller, more military, and formerly all male UG (less...
Flushed Base
  02/22/18
citadel
Frozen flesh corner
  02/22/18
Still a complete ttt if you didn’t cop an officer’s commissi...
cerebral mildly autistic tattoo haunted graveyard
  02/22/18
Ehh, less than 30% of my class took commissions. It seemed ...
Flushed Base
  02/22/18
When I was in school, it was the Clinton years and military ...
Flushed Base
  02/22/18
Ft. Shithole is a great community; soldiers, contractors, an...
Transparent Comical Immigrant
  02/23/18
Do you wear the ring? Thoughts on pay Conroy?
Deranged bawdyhouse juggernaut
  02/22/18
Every day since I put it on 19 years ago. Pat was a crazy a...
Flushed Base
  02/22/18
Why did you go there for law school? Why not SC law if you w...
Grizzly hall
  02/22/18
I didn't go to SCAR, which was a hard decision. My TTT law ...
Flushed Base
  02/23/18
What level of judge
cerebral mildly autistic tattoo haunted graveyard
  02/22/18
Were you clerking for a judge that took senior status?
Apoplectic sapphire potus trailer park
  02/22/18
He was a chief admin judge but we did a bunch of jury trials...
Flushed Base
  02/22/18
elaborate on your takeaway
Obsidian black woman
  02/22/18
...
up-to-no-good plum house
  02/22/18
Because of the history of lynching, racial shame and such, b...
Flushed Base
  02/22/18
so if a woman gets raped, she’s just supposed to suck it up ...
Obsidian black woman
  02/22/18
I was blown away. Horrible.
Flushed Base
  02/22/18
muscadine has had a few beers and is giving you a little red...
cyan hell candlestick maker
  02/22/18
Prosecutors work out deals, they don’t try them. I saw what...
Flushed Base
  02/22/18
Whites in SC are afraid?
Deranged bawdyhouse juggernaut
  02/22/18
Really? B/c I have been lead to believe this is like 12% of ...
lake casino
  02/22/18
You could study black man white woman rape in the deep south...
Flushed Base
  02/23/18
Career district clerk here. Look at the "weighted filin...
rusted razzle plaza
  02/22/18
Clerking in D. Del. must just be fucking bananas right now.
lake casino
  02/22/18
They’re borrowing judges from EDPA
wine swashbuckling hospital
  02/23/18
Why? What's going on there?
rusted razzle plaza
  02/23/18
There are four Art III judgeships down there. Only two are f...
lake casino
  02/23/18


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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:44 PM
Author: Flushed Base

Typed one (1) order in a year of working, that was the only time I actually used Microsoft word for the year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466160)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:45 PM
Author: Obsidian black woman



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466181)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:46 PM
Author: Frozen flesh corner

holy shit.

i clerked in a non-federal court and i think i wrote over 60 judicial opinions in under a year. that, of course, doesn't include research memoranda.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466189)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:47 PM
Author: wine swashbuckling hospital

LMAO. I clerked on COA. Wrote five opinions in a year. Did lots of bench memos but that’s just cutting and pasting from briefs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466210)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:49 PM
Author: Fishy Ape Brethren

JFC

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466226)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:51 PM
Author: Apoplectic sapphire potus trailer park

I recently went to a CLE where this old COA judge who is a notorious alcoholic said computers made it easy for him to work at home. He was using a walker. Everyone tried to hold in their laughter.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466257)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:53 PM
Author: Orange Electric Furnace

How did you land it? Above median from HLS?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466282)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:56 PM
Author: wine swashbuckling hospital

Top 10% @ CCN

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466311)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:57 PM
Author: Orange Electric Furnace

Thought so. FML, FTGE.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466318)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: Flushed Base

After about six months I was a little put out that I wasn’t doing any law work whatsoever, but then I figured I’d just enjoy the job for what it was.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466485)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:48 PM
Author: Hilarious crimson theater stage filthpig

Yeah this, I wrote like a madman and was miserable every moment. My judge had designs on COA as well so he was really anal about my work product being flawless.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466223)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:06 PM
Author: Flushed Base

My judge made s lot of money in the 79’s and 89’s practicing law and was in the state assembly for a while. His family owned land in that county since it was British. He lived on a 20 acre spread where there was like a 1/8th of a mile driveway lined with dogwoods. His family owned a majority stake in a successful regional bank. He lived in a town of about 1500 where he knew everyone.

You cannot get more DGAF than him

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466438)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:49 PM
Author: Flushed Base

My judge was the most senior trial judge in S.C., notorious for never taking anything under advisement and always ruling from the bench. He was on the bench for 20+ years prior to my being with him. He never once had me research anything. Mostly my jobs were to drive him around, play golf with him whenever he wanted to - which was like 5 times s week- and drink liquor. It was like heaven

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466224)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:50 PM
Author: Hilarious crimson theater stage filthpig

i tried to cop a clerkship with some old judge in kansas where the primary responsibility was to drive him around but i suspect someone moar preftigious got that spot

i wanted to spend a year storm chasing :/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466241)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:52 PM
Author: Flushed Base

Yea I got that job through connections, not grades. He never asked for my grades or a resume, just s long interview that involved lunch at a local meat & three

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466267)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:51 PM
Author: Frozen flesh corner

holy shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466252)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:51 PM
Author: cerebral mildly autistic tattoo haunted graveyard

Ok state trial court judge is not a "judicial clerkship"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466265)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:53 PM
Author: Flushed Base

Hahahaha sure

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466286)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:55 PM
Author: Frozen flesh corner

? it's the job title.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466304)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:57 PM
Author: cerebral mildly autistic tattoo haunted graveyard

It's an unpaid volunteer position in most states

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466322)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:07 PM
Author: Flushed Base

I was paid

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466446)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:12 PM
Author: cerebral mildly autistic tattoo haunted graveyard

Did you go to a t14?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466502)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:13 PM
Author: Flushed Base

TTT supreme law school. Went to the right undergrad though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466513)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:16 PM
Author: cerebral mildly autistic tattoo haunted graveyard

lmao dat Clemson ug to Charleston SOL connection ?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466553)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:22 PM
Author: Flushed Base

Think smaller, more military, and formerly all male UG (less than 400 in my graduating class). Law school was up north “ranked” 60-80 depending on the year, so TTT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466624)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:26 PM
Author: Frozen flesh corner

citadel

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466653)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:27 PM
Author: cerebral mildly autistic tattoo haunted graveyard

Still a complete ttt if you didn’t cop an officer’s commission at graduation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466658)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:29 PM
Author: Flushed Base

Ehh, less than 30% of my class took commissions. It seemed to work out fine for me

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466676)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:36 PM
Author: Flushed Base

When I was in school, it was the Clinton years and military downsizing. Nobody thought, hey, in a year or two we’re going to be at war, so a lot of guys didn’t want to go sit at Ft. Shithole for 4 years.

I had serious, serious guilt about my friends deploying after 911 and my sitting home. EDIT: it is the single biggest regret of my life

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466748)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 9:06 AM
Author: Transparent Comical Immigrant

Ft. Shithole is a great community; soldiers, contractors, and civilians all serve the Ft. Shithole mission with pride

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35468252)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:29 PM
Author: Deranged bawdyhouse juggernaut

Do you wear the ring? Thoughts on pay Conroy?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466678)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:31 PM
Author: Flushed Base

Every day since I put it on 19 years ago. Pat was a crazy asshole but was close with an Uncke if mine so we were cool.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466701)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:46 PM
Author: Grizzly hall

Why did you go there for law school? Why not SC law if you were gonna stay in SC? Did the judge not mind your mediocre yankee credentials?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466848)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:03 AM
Author: Flushed Base

I didn't go to SCAR, which was a hard decision. My TTT law school gave me a ton of money - not quite everything but close to it. Thus, I figured that with almost no loans and the connections from my undergrad that I would be in good shape.

I was right in some ways, not right in others. I underestimated how SCAR grads dominate this area, although CSOL is chipping away at that.

EDIT: not a day went by where the Judge didn't rip on my living up North.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35468556)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:47 PM
Author: cerebral mildly autistic tattoo haunted graveyard

What level of judge

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466205)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:48 PM
Author: Apoplectic sapphire potus trailer park

Were you clerking for a judge that took senior status?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466222)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:50 PM
Author: Flushed Base

He was a chief admin judge but we did a bunch of jury trials. Takeaway: it is impossible to convict s black man of raping a white woman in sc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466242)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:57 PM
Author: Obsidian black woman

elaborate on your takeaway

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466326)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:59 PM
Author: up-to-no-good plum house



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466344)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:07 PM
Author: Flushed Base

Because of the history of lynching, racial shame and such, blacks won’t convict and whites are afraid to do it.

He said that only stupid and young prosecutors even try to do it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466454)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:23 PM
Author: Obsidian black woman

so if a woman gets raped, she’s just supposed to suck it up and take one for the team?

jfc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466631)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:26 PM
Author: Flushed Base

I was blown away. Horrible.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466649)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:26 PM
Author: cyan hell candlestick maker

muscadine has had a few beers and is giving you a little red-nosed fury

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466654)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:27 PM
Author: Flushed Base

Prosecutors work out deals, they don’t try them. I saw what happens if they do

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466659)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:32 PM
Author: Deranged bawdyhouse juggernaut

Whites in SC are afraid?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466708)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:50 PM
Author: lake casino

Really? B/c I have been lead to believe this is like 12% of the prison population.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466882)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:04 AM
Author: Flushed Base

You could study black man white woman rape in the deep south for your entire life and still not fully understand all the aspects of this. It's a deep issue.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35468564)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:29 PM
Author: rusted razzle plaza

Career district clerk here. Look at the "weighted filings per judgeship."

http://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/judicial-emergencies

E.g. WD La has 270, while just across the border in ED Texas there are almost 4 times as many. Huge difference in the workload for those 2 clerkships.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466682)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:52 PM
Author: lake casino

Clerking in D. Del. must just be fucking bananas right now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35466896)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 8:52 AM
Author: wine swashbuckling hospital

They’re borrowing judges from EDPA

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35468209)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:05 AM
Author: rusted razzle plaza

Why? What's going on there?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35468570)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 1:17 PM
Author: lake casino

There are four Art III judgeships down there. Only two are filled. Plus now venue is only proper in a lot of patent cases where defendants are incorporated, which is DE for a lot of them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901165&forum_id=2#35470131)