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VERMONT JUDICIAL CLERKSHIPS

Vermont State Courts
SUPREME COURT Applications will be accepted beginning immediately for a one-year judicial clerkship in the chambers of Chief Justice Paul L. Reiber,* Associate Justice John A. Dooley, Associate Justice Marilyn S. Skoglund and Associate Justice Brian L. Burgess. Salary: $44,033.00 Website: http://www.vermontjudiciary.org/default.aspx Location: Salary: Duration: Deadline: Montpelier, VT $44,033, excludes one day per month furlough ($21.17/hour) August 13, 2012 to August 9, 2013 September 1, 2011 at 8:00 a.m.

Interviews: To be held on September 6 and September 7, 2011 Apply: Submit one application by email in PDF format to: monica.bombard@state.vt.us Cover letter addressed to: Dear Honorable Justices (One cover letter is sufficient to apply to all vacancies.) Resume Sample of legal writing Unofficial law school transcript, indicating academic standing if available Two or more letters of recommendation from present or former employers or law professors addressed to: Dear Honorable Justices (may be sent separately from other materials). Note: Do not submit a form Judicial Branch Employment Application. If any of the above items are unavailable electronically, please mail to: Attn: Monica Bombard Vermont Supreme Court 109 State Street Montpelier, VT 05609-0801 For questions, please contact Monica Bombard at 802-828-4784 or by email monica.bombard@state.vt.us *Chief Justice Paul L. Reiber will be accepting applications on a rolling basis.

Vermont Judiciary Trial Court Law Clerk Hiring Information

Vermonts centrally organized trial court law clerk program provides law clerk assistance to trial court judges on location throughout Vermont. Law clerks concentrate on research and writing for all judges of the civil, criminal, and family divisions of the superior court, as assigned, and may participate in other projects. Some law clerks are assigned exclusively to the environmental division of the superior court. Law clerks are hired annually for one-year positions beginning each September. Thereafter, second-year, senior, and staff attorney positions are possible. Applications are accepted annually during the September 1 through October 5 period immediately preceding the September in which the clerkship commences. At the time of application, an applicant must be admitted to the bar of any state, in the final year of law school, or a recent graduate. Both students and experienced practitioners are considered desirable applicants. Hiring for environmental division positions is conducted separately from hiring for all other trial court positions. Applicants for both environmental and other positions, if selected, will be interviewed twice. Such applicants should submit two separate sets of application materials, one for each hiring committee. MINIMUM APPLICATION MATERIALS Short cover letter clearly indicating interest in (1) positions focusing on the environmental division or (2) positions focusing on all other divisions; Resume with e-mail address, which will be relied upon for correspondence; Current law school transcript; Official class rank or equivalent (if not reported by school, please explain); Two letters of recommendation (may be sent separately from other materials); and Recent legal writing sample(s) demonstrating aptitude for trial court-level opinion writing. Please apply only according to these instructions. #Please do not apply directly to any courthouses or judges. Please do not submit a form Judicial Branch Employment Application. 5 Address all materials, Dear Hiring Committee. Please e-mail one set of application materials per application in PDF form, between September 1 and October 5, to jud.recruitment@state.vt.us with the subject, trial court law clerk hiring. Applicants for both environmental and non-environmental positions should send two applications in separate e-mails. Recommendation letters may be sent separately. Any materials that must be sent on paper should be addressed to: Robert B. Hubbard Office of the Court Administrator Human Resources Department Trial Court Law Clerk Hiring 109 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05609-0701 Please direct all inquiries about the trial court law clerk program to, Chief Staff Attorney, robert.hubbard@state.vt.us or 802-828-3207. A limited number of qualified applicants will be selected for in-person interviews based on court needs and demonstrated merit. Interviews will be held in November 2011.

Federal Courts in Vermont

In the federal court system, Vermont is in the Second Circuit (which also includes Connecticut and all four New York districts). In federal trial courts (the Federal District Courts) and appellate courts (the Circuit Courts of Appeals) judicial law clerks work for individual judges. While most applications to federal judicial clerkships occur in August and early September of your final year of law school, judges set their own application requirements, including opening application dates and deadlines, the materials required, etc. Individual judges interview and hire their own clerks, so that even within one court, the application process may differ from judge to judge. Most federal judges begin viewing applications in early September and will not accept applications until then, per the Federal Hiring clerk plan. Please note: do not send applications prior to the noted time or they will be returned to you. Verify the policy of the individual court before sending application materials
Finding and Applying to Federal Judges The majority of federal judges hire new judicial law clerks each year; however, many of those openings are not advertised. The judges rely on students to locate and contact them individually. All federal judges are listed on Symplicity, the Career Services online recruiting system, under the Judicial Clerkship tab. You can search in a variety of ways and download the clerkships of interest into an Excel file, allowing you to create a mail merge. The Federal Judiciarys System for Clerkship Application and Review (OSCAR), https://oscar.symplicity.com, allows applicants to apply online to participating federal judges (not all federal judges use the program). Some judges will only accept applications via OSCAR, some by mail, and some will accept both. If a judge uses OSCAR, it is noted in their Symplicity listing. OSCAR allows students to designate judges to whom they wish to apply and to submit application materials (rsum, cover letter, transcript, writing sample, recommendations) online. Please note: OSCAR will accept application materials beginning in June and will stop accepting them the first week of September. Judges:
Chief Judge: Hon. Christina Reiss P.O. Box 953 Burlington, VT 05402-0953 (802) 951-6622 Senior Judge: Hon. J. Garvan Murtha P.O. Box 760 Brattleboro, VT 05302-0760 (802) 258-4413 District Judge: Hon. William K. Sessions III P.O. Box 928 Burlington, VT 05402-0928 (802) 951-6350 Magistrate Judge: Hon. John Conroy P.O Box 836 Burlington, VT 05402-0836 802) 951-6308 Chief Bankruptcy Judge: Colleen A. Brown P.O. Box 6648 Rutland, VT 05702-6648