The Logical Next Step for a Law Clerk

If you’ve spent the past year or two as a judicial clerk, the next step in your career is a very important one. In joining Kramer Levin, you would be following in the footsteps of three-quarters of our litigation partners and a number of other partners in our corporate and bankruptcy practices — all of them former law clerks, most of whom came here directly from their clerkships.

The firm has learned over the years that good law clerks make excellent lawyers. So we welcome your application and will consider you for placement directly into a specific practice area.

View a copy of our clerk brochure here.

An associate joining Kramer Levin directly from a judicial clerkship for a judge of a federal court or the highest court of any state may be eligible for a clerkship bonus in accordance with our attorney policy manual.

In the past three years, nine former litigation and bankruptcy law clerks have joined us as associates. One bankruptcy attorney who was elected to partner in the past three years was once a clerk as well.

By relating a variety of personal accounts, we hope to convey what it means to practice law at Kramer Levin, in the hopes that many of you will join us (as so many former clerks have done in the past) and continue to be excited and challenged by our profession.