The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Law Clerk

The modest record of a judicial hit man

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When the clerkship is over, and the law clerk lives now only in my memories

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When I confine a bad case to its facts

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When I remember why I opened that case

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When I flip it back

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When I make the majority wish they'd never said it

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When plaintiff is estopped

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When local court rules hit the Supremacy Clause

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When we adopt the majority rule

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When I've got three weeks worth of work and two weeks left in the clerkship

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When it's state constitutional law

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When the lone dissenter revises yet again

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When the intern cites to the wrong reporter

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When someone asks me how I did on the Bar

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When I walk out of the Bar

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When it is the first day of the Bar

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When I'm spoiled for choice