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Closed for Juneteenth Tomorrow
Most of Harvard, including the Office of Career Services, will be closed tomorrow, Friday, June 19, in observance of the Juneteenth holiday. We will reopen on Monday.
2026: Fresh Openings
For alumni, among 2026 openings in our broader spreadsheets are these freshly posted in the OSCAR within the past week: U.S. District Judge Regina Rodriguez (Denver, CO) - Asap start U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria (San Franciso, CA) - Asap start; temporary prisoner pro se law clerk position to work with Judges Chhabria, Thompson, and Westmore U.S. Distri
Confidentiality Reminder
Information in this blog and on our website – especially, but not limited to, the spreadsheets about judges’ hiring status and lists of HLS clerks – is sensitive and confidential, for use by Harvard Law School clerkship applicants only. Please keep this in mind and do NOT share such information with judges, friends at other schools, etc. Although some of the
Judicial Pride Panel
Alliance for Justice, along with co-sponsors the LGBTQ+ Bar, The Appellate Project, and American Constitution Society, invite you to join their webinar, Pathways to the Bench: Judicial Pride , next Thursday, June 25, at 3:00 Eastern/12:00 Pacific. LGBTQ+ federal and state supreme court judges will discuss their journeys to the bench. This webinar is off the
NYC Clerkship Event
The New York firm of Patterson Belknap’s Hiring and Inclusion & Engagement Committees invite rising 2Ls, 3Ls, and recent law school graduates to Navigating and Succeeding in a Federal Clerkship , a panel featuring attorneys who have served as federal judicial clerks, along with special guest Juvaria Khan, CEO and Founder of the Appellate Project, followed by
Written Work Product from Summer Job
To the extent you have any choices among projects in your summer job, try to seek out writing projects. These projects will help develop your writing skills and be a helpful source of writing samples for future job searches, including for judicial clerkships . Even rising 3Ls who have applied for clerkships this June may want to supplement applications with
If Seeking a Second Clerkship
If you are seeking a second clerkship, see Resume/Upcoming Job and Updates to Applications .
Withdraw Apps
If/when you are no longer available for or interested in certain clerkships, please withdraw applications to help judges and HLS faculty and staff not waste time considering you. That also helps the majority of HLS applicants who have not secured a clerkship yet.
Report Contact with Judges
To help everyone know what’s happening out there as we proceed through this application cycle, please report any contact you have with judges.
Class of 2027: More to Come
Now only two weeks into the official hiring plan period that typically lasts months, lots more hiring activity is to come. If you haven’t heard from any judge yet or have interviewed without receiving an offer yet, hang in there. When the initial dust has settled in another week or two (or now if you wish), take stock in researching carefully whether most of
Advising Update
Thank you for your help with needed triage during recent weeks. Here is an update about advising options. Always start with the written resources designed to answer most questions: Judicial clerkship roadmap on the OCS website In particular, the page on Taking Stock After Submitting Clerkship Applications has detailed advice covering most applicants at this
2026: New Openings
(Class of 2027 applicants, notice there are always shorter-notice clerkship opportunities for what is then a very small applicant pool.) For alumni, new 2026 openings continue to pop up, including with these judges and approximate starts: U.S. District Judge Richard Andrews (Wilmington, DE) - Sept U.S. District Judge William Conley (Madison, WI) - Sept U.S.
Taking Stock
While some clerkship applicants are lucky to have immediate success, most need to be persistent about their searches over time to get a payoff. We emphasize the hiring plan date as an official kickoff for students covered by it, but typically hundreds of judges act later in the official hiring cycle. In fact, the majority of HLS applicants who get clerkships
Please Find and Share Info on Hiring Status
As you have seen, we gather hiring status information about many judges, at least on a snapshot basis. However, there is a limit on our staffing and thus the rate at which we can gather information about a fluid landscape. If our latest spreadsheets and subsequent reports do not contain fresh information about judges of interest to you , please contribute to
HLS Closed Tomorrow
Harvard Law School will be closed tomorrow, Friday, July 3, in observance of the Independence Day holiday. We will reopen on Monday. Happy Fourth!
2026: New Openings
For alumni, new 2026 openings to start in September: 11th Circuit Staff Attorneys’ Office (Atlanta, GA) U.S. District Judge Gina Mendez-Miro (San Juan, PR) U.S. District Judge Robert Kirsch (Trenton, NJ) - unpaid; remote work possible
2027: MA Appeals Court
The Massachusetts Appeals Court, based in Boston, has multiple justices who are HLS alumni and some justices who strongly favor HLS applicants. It will begin accepting applications for law clerk positions for the 2027 term on August 1. Further information can be found on the court’s website . Notice the application form, request for a writing sample “not to