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Typed one (1) order in a year of working, that was the only ...
arousing zippy pistol feces
  02/22/18
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mind-boggling theater stage halford
  02/22/18
holy shit. i clerked in a non-federal court and i think i...
dun heaven windowlicker
  02/22/18
LMAO. I clerked on COA. Wrote five opinions in a year. Did l...
Adventurous harsh tanning salon dopamine
  02/22/18
JFC
Fiercely-loyal theatre
  02/22/18
I recently went to a CLE where this old COA judge who is a n...
Abnormal office
  02/22/18
How did you land it? Above median from HLS?
cruel-hearted purple legend laser beams
  02/22/18
Top 10% @ CCN
Adventurous harsh tanning salon dopamine
  02/22/18
Thought so. FML, FTGE.
cruel-hearted purple legend laser beams
  02/22/18
After about six months I was a little put out that I wasn’t ...
arousing zippy pistol feces
  02/22/18
Yeah this, I wrote like a madman and was miserable every mom...
Filthy drunken tank marketing idea
  02/22/18
My judge made s lot of money in the 79’s and 89’s practicing...
arousing zippy pistol feces
  02/22/18
My judge was the most senior trial judge in S.C., notorious ...
arousing zippy pistol feces
  02/22/18
i tried to cop a clerkship with some old judge in kansas whe...
Filthy drunken tank marketing idea
  02/22/18
Yea I got that job through connections, not grades. He neve...
arousing zippy pistol feces
  02/22/18
holy shit
dun heaven windowlicker
  02/22/18
Ok state trial court judge is not a "judicial clerkship...
Wine Misanthropic Candlestick Maker
  02/22/18
Hahahaha sure
arousing zippy pistol feces
  02/22/18
? it's the job title.
dun heaven windowlicker
  02/22/18
It's an unpaid volunteer position in most states
Wine Misanthropic Candlestick Maker
  02/22/18
I was paid
arousing zippy pistol feces
  02/22/18
Did you go to a t14?
Wine Misanthropic Candlestick Maker
  02/22/18
TTT supreme law school. Went to the right undergrad though
arousing zippy pistol feces
  02/22/18
lmao dat Clemson ug to Charleston SOL connection ?
Wine Misanthropic Candlestick Maker
  02/22/18
Think smaller, more military, and formerly all male UG (less...
arousing zippy pistol feces
  02/22/18
citadel
dun heaven windowlicker
  02/22/18
Still a complete ttt if you didn’t cop an officer’s commissi...
Wine Misanthropic Candlestick Maker
  02/22/18
Ehh, less than 30% of my class took commissions. It seemed ...
arousing zippy pistol feces
  02/22/18
When I was in school, it was the Clinton years and military ...
arousing zippy pistol feces
  02/22/18
Ft. Shithole is a great community; soldiers, contractors, an...
underhanded racy university son of senegal
  02/23/18
Do you wear the ring? Thoughts on pay Conroy?
Ocher Fear-inspiring Selfie Pit
  02/22/18
Every day since I put it on 19 years ago. Pat was a crazy a...
arousing zippy pistol feces
  02/22/18
Why did you go there for law school? Why not SC law if you w...
trip crotch coffee pot
  02/22/18
I didn't go to SCAR, which was a hard decision. My TTT law ...
arousing zippy pistol feces
  02/23/18
What level of judge
Wine Misanthropic Candlestick Maker
  02/22/18
Were you clerking for a judge that took senior status?
Abnormal office
  02/22/18
He was a chief admin judge but we did a bunch of jury trials...
arousing zippy pistol feces
  02/22/18
elaborate on your takeaway
mind-boggling theater stage halford
  02/22/18
...
Aphrodisiac Free-loading Hairy Legs Associate
  02/22/18
Because of the history of lynching, racial shame and such, b...
arousing zippy pistol feces
  02/22/18
so if a woman gets raped, she’s just supposed to suck it up ...
mind-boggling theater stage halford
  02/22/18
I was blown away. Horrible.
arousing zippy pistol feces
  02/22/18
muscadine has had a few beers and is giving you a little red...
Insane idiot
  02/22/18
Prosecutors work out deals, they don’t try them. I saw what...
arousing zippy pistol feces
  02/22/18
Whites in SC are afraid?
Ocher Fear-inspiring Selfie Pit
  02/22/18
Really? B/c I have been lead to believe this is like 12% of ...
Canary Yarmulke
  02/22/18
You could study black man white woman rape in the deep south...
arousing zippy pistol feces
  02/23/18
Career district clerk here. Look at the "weighted filin...
claret sinister state
  02/22/18
Clerking in D. Del. must just be fucking bananas right now.
Canary Yarmulke
  02/22/18
They’re borrowing judges from EDPA
Adventurous harsh tanning salon dopamine
  02/23/18
Why? What's going on there?
claret sinister state
  02/23/18
There are four Art III judgeships down there. Only two are f...
Canary Yarmulke
  02/23/18


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Date: February 22nd, 2018 10:44 PM
Author: arousing zippy pistol feces

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: mind-boggling theater stage halford



(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: dun heaven windowlicker

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: Adventurous harsh tanning salon dopamine

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: Fiercely-loyal theatre

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: Abnormal office

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: cruel-hearted purple legend laser beams

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: Adventurous harsh tanning salon dopamine

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: cruel-hearted purple legend laser beams

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: arousing zippy pistol feces

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: Filthy drunken tank marketing idea

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: arousing zippy pistol feces

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: arousing zippy pistol feces

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: Filthy drunken tank marketing idea

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: arousing zippy pistol feces

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: dun heaven windowlicker

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: Wine Misanthropic Candlestick Maker

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: arousing zippy pistol feces

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: dun heaven windowlicker

? 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: Wine Misanthropic Candlestick Maker

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: arousing zippy pistol feces

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: Wine Misanthropic Candlestick Maker

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: arousing zippy pistol feces

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: Wine Misanthropic Candlestick Maker

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: arousing zippy pistol feces

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: dun heaven windowlicker

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: Wine Misanthropic Candlestick Maker

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: arousing zippy pistol feces

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: arousing zippy pistol feces

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: underhanded racy university son of senegal

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: Ocher Fear-inspiring Selfie Pit

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: arousing zippy pistol feces

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: trip crotch coffee pot

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: arousing zippy pistol feces

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: Wine Misanthropic Candlestick Maker

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: Abnormal office

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: arousing zippy pistol feces

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: mind-boggling theater stage halford

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: Aphrodisiac Free-loading Hairy Legs Associate



(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: arousing zippy pistol feces

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: mind-boggling theater stage halford

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: arousing zippy pistol feces

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: Insane idiot

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: arousing zippy pistol feces

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: Ocher Fear-inspiring Selfie Pit

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: Canary Yarmulke

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: arousing zippy pistol feces

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: claret sinister state

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: Canary Yarmulke

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: Adventurous harsh tanning salon dopamine

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: claret sinister state

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: Canary Yarmulke

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)