A 'Great Recruiting Year': Jones Day Nabs 9 Supreme Court Clerks

The firm continues to win over Supreme Court clerks -- and two of them came from RBG herself.

onApril 9, 2021 at 3:30 PMApril 9, 2021 at 2:46 PM

(Photo by Fred Schilling, Supreme Court Curator’s Office)

It’s definitely still the case that we recruit across the Supreme Court. Any firm would be lucky to have one clerk. So I still consider that good news in the fact that we are still recruiting across the chambers. I can’t speak to what motivated other people to make the decisions that they made. I just think that at some level, the proof is in the numbers. We have nine, including two from what some would consider the more liberal justices.

— Traci Lovitt, leader of Jones Day’s issues and appeals practice, commenting on the number of former Supreme Court clerks that the firm hired from the high court’s 2019-20 term. Included in the firm’s nine SCOTUS clerks are two former clerks from the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s chambers.

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