The market for U.S. Supreme Court clerks remains hot, with Jones Day announcing that it has just hired its sixth former law clerk from the last term of the high court. That may be the most clerks signed up by a single firm from a single term.
The firm acknowledges that it abides by the prevailing one-time hiring bonus of $280,000 for high court clerks, which means that Jones Day has spent $1,680,000 on last term’s clerks, apart from their salaries and benefits. Several lawyers who often hire former high court clerks said their firms had never matched the mark set by Jones Day.
