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Working As A Law Clerk

  • Getting Information
  • Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
  • Making Decisions and Solving Problems
  • Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
  • Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others

  • Mostly Sitting

  • $67,000

    Average Salary

What Does A Law Clerk Do

A Law Clerk is responsible for researching, compiling, comparing, and organizing legal documents for judges and lawyers. They research law, assemble case materials, and write reports.

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Average Length of Employment
Attorney At Law 5.8 years
Principal Law Clerk 5.0 years
Counselor At Law 4.6 years
Attorney 4.4 years
Litigation Attorney 4.2 years
Litigation Associate 3.8 years
Staff Attorney 3.4 years
Career Law Clerk 3.1 years
Criminal Defense Lawyer 2.7 years
Attorney Law Clerk 2.2 years
Summer Law Associate 2.1 years
Federal Law Clerk 1.8 years
Judicial Clerk 1.4 years
Judicial Law Clerk 1.4 years
Appellate Law Clerk 1.4 years
Law Clerk 1.0 years
Summer Clerk 0.6 years
Law Internship 0.6 years
Legal Extern 0.6 years
Judicial Internship 0.3 years
Top Careers Before Law Clerk
Legal Extern 22.2%
Internship 21.8%
Judicial Internship 10.1%
Research Assistant 7.3%
Legal Assistant 7.0%
Summer Associate 4.1%
Student Attorney 3.9%
Paralegal 3.7%
Volunteer 3.4%
Law Internship 3.2%
Administrative Assistant 1.9%
Fellow 1.5%
Associate 1.4%
Teaching Assistant 1.4%
Office Assistant 1.3%
Attorney 1.2%
Teacher 1.2%
Sales Associate 1.1%
Professor 1.1%
Judge 1.1%
Top Careers After Law Clerk
Attorney 17.2%
Associate Attorney 15.2%
Legal Extern 9.7%
Associate 9.7%
Contract Attorney 7.0%
Internship 6.0%
Student Attorney 4.2%
Research Assistant 3.9%
Staff Attorney 3.8%
Judicial Internship 3.3%
Legal Assistant 2.5%
Paralegal 2.1%
Litigation Associate 2.1%
Summer Associate 2.1%
Fellow 2.1%
Volunteer 2.0%
General Counsel 1.9%
Partner 1.9%
Judicial Law Clerk 1.8%
Law Internship 1.6%

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AVERAGE SALARY FOR A Law Clerk

Average Yearly Salary
$67,000
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$30,000
Min 10%
$67,000
Median 50%
$67,000
Median 50%
$67,000
Median 50%
$67,000
Median 50%
$67,000
Median 50%
$67,000
Median 50%
$67,000
Median 50%
$147,000
Max 90%
Best Paying Company
Locke Lord
Highest Paying City
Seattle, WA
Highest Paying State
Alaska
Avg Experience Level
1.2 years
How much does a Law Clerk make at top companies?
The national average salary for a Law Clerk in the United States is $67,505 per year or $32 per hour. Those in the bottom 10 percent make under $30,000 a year, and the top 10 percent make over $147,000.

Real Law Clerk Salaries

Job Title Company Location Start Date Salary
Pre-Admitted Law Clerk/Associate White & Case LLP New York, NY Aug 29, 2016 $230,000
Law Clerk DLA Piper LLP (Us) Seattle, WA Jul 06, 2015 $230,000
Senior Law Clerk Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP New York, NY Sep 03, 2015 $230,000
Law Clerk DLA Piper LLP (Us) Seattle, WA Jun 07, 2015 $230,000
Law Clerk Debevoise & Plimpton LLP New York, NY Apr 04, 2016 $230,000
Law Clerk Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, PLLC Washington, DC Aug 12, 2015 $225,000
Law Clerk Fenwick & West LLP San Francisco, CA Sep 22, 2015 $212,000 -
$230,000
Law Clerk Debevoise & Plimpton LLP New York, NY May 12, 2016 $210,000
Senior Law Clerk Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP San Francisco, CA Oct 24, 2016 $210,000
Law Clerk Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP New York, NY Dec 19, 2016 $210,000
Law Clerk Kirkland and Ellis LLP Palo Alto, CA Jan 21, 2016 $210,000
Law Clerk DLA Piper LLP (Us) Washington, DC Sep 16, 2016 $210,000
Law Clerk O'Melveny & Myers LLP Menlo Park, CA Jul 20, 2015 $210,000
International Law Clerk White & Case LLP Miami, FL Sep 18, 2015 $155,000 -
$165,000
International Law Clerk White & Case LLP Miami, FL Jun 01, 2016 $155,000
International Law Clerk White & Case LLP Miami, FL Jan 06, 2016 $155,000
Law Clerk Venable LLP Los Angeles, CA Feb 02, 2015 $150,000 -
$260,000
Law Clerk Pepper Hamilton, LLP Philadelphia, PA Jan 09, 2016 $150,000
Law Clerk DLA Piper LLP (Us) New York, NY Aug 04, 2015 $150,000
Law Clerk Dechert LLP Philadelphia, PA Aug 26, 2015 $145,000 -
$260,000
Law Clerk Baker and McKenzie LLP Miami, FL Aug 15, 2016 $145,000
Law Clerk Stahl Cowen Crowley Addis LLC Chicago, IL Sep 12, 2015 $54,262
Law Clerk Salcedo Attorneys at Law P.A. Miami, FL Sep 03, 2015 $54,262
Law Clerk Law Office of Frank Xu, PLLC New York, NY Jan 09, 2016 $54,000
Law Clerk Ricci Sprouls PC San Francisco, CA Aug 22, 2016 $53,970
Law Clerk Inventus Law Inc. Palo Alto, CA Sep 01, 2015 $53,810
Law Clerk Law Offices of Jean D. Chen San Jose, CA Aug 19, 2015 $53,810
Law Clerk Law Offices of Jean D. Chen San Jose, CA Aug 25, 2015 $53,810

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Top Skills for A Law Clerk

  1. Legal Documents
  2. Pre-Trial Motions
  3. Family Law
You can check out examples of real life uses of top skills on resumes here:
  • Prepare substantive memorandums and legal documents relating to disciplinary cases against health care professionals.
  • Worked closely with commercial litigation partner drafting answers, interrogatories and pre-trial motions.
  • Researched issues relating to family law and foreclosure defense and delivered findings through written memorandum or conference.
  • Conducted extensive legal research and drafted several sentencing memorandums and case summaries regarding complex legal issues.
  • Researched and analyzed various case-related documents including pleadings, trial exhibits and medical/employment data for workers' compensation/personal injury cases.

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Top 10 Best States for Law Clerks

  1. District of Columbia
  2. Alaska
  3. Rhode Island
  4. Massachusetts
  5. Nebraska
  6. New York
  7. Arizona
  8. New Mexico
  9. North Carolina
  10. South Dakota
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Law Clerk Resume Examples And Tips

The average resume reviewer spends between 5 to 7 seconds looking at a single resume, which leaves the average job applier with roughly six seconds to make a killer first impression. Thanks to this, a single typo or error on your resume can disqualify you right out of the gate. At Zippia, we went through over 56,266 Law Clerk resumes and compiled some information about how best to optimize them. Here are some suggestions based on what we found, divided by the individual sections of the resume itself.

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Law Clerk Demographics

Gender

Male

47.1%

Female

43.9%

Unknown

9.0%
Ethnicity

White

58.2%

Hispanic or Latino

15.6%

Black or African American

12.2%

Asian

9.5%

Unknown

4.4%
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Foreign Languages Spoken

Spanish

46.5%

French

12.4%

Mandarin

5.4%

Chinese

4.9%

Russian

4.0%

German

4.0%

Italian

3.3%

Portuguese

3.2%

Arabic

2.6%

Korean

2.4%

Hindi

2.0%

Japanese

2.0%

Hebrew

1.3%

Urdu

1.2%

Cantonese

1.1%

Greek

0.8%

Vietnamese

0.8%

Polish

0.7%

Gujarati

0.7%

Armenian

0.6%
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Law Clerk Education

Schools

Southwestern Law School

10.1%

John Marshall Law School

6.6%

New York Law School

6.1%

American University

5.8%

University of Maryland - Baltimore

5.7%

George Washington University

5.6%

Thomas M. Cooley Law School

5.5%

DePaul University

5.4%

University of Miami

5.1%

South Texas College of Law

5.1%

Georgetown University

5.0%

Suffolk University

4.8%

Florida Coastal School of Law

4.2%

Loyola University of Chicago

3.8%

Hofstra University

3.7%

University of San Diego

3.6%

Temple University

3.5%

California Western School of Law

3.5%

Thomas Jefferson School of Law

3.4%

Widener University-Delaware Law School

3.3%
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Majors

Law

73.7%

Legal Research And Advanced Professional Studies

8.3%

Political Science

3.1%

Business

2.8%

Criminal Justice

2.0%

Journalism

1.4%

Taxation

1.1%

Legal Support Services

0.9%

Finance

0.9%

Psychology

0.8%

English

0.8%

History

0.6%

Legal Studies

0.5%

Economics

0.5%

Accounting

0.5%

Communication

0.5%

Writing

0.5%

Sociology

0.4%

Education

0.4%

Dispute Resolution

0.4%
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Degrees

Doctorate

78.4%

Masters

7.8%

Bachelors

7.0%

Other

4.2%

Certificate

1.4%

Associate

0.8%

Diploma

0.2%

License

0.1%
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