Greetings, ATL readers!

I wondered where the surge in posts came from, and I attribute it solely to the judicial diva (divo?) at Above the Law. A few comments.

First, this format is meant to be easy for me to do. Sorry, it's low-tech, but that's what you'll get from me. If you're capable of pressing Ctrl+F, you should find everything you need rather quickly and easily.

Second, I'm always glad to fill in information, and I'm pleased that individuals have been coming to bat for their respective schools with more insight. I'll take it all and update when I get the chance. This list is based upon second-hand reported information given to me from anonymous sources. Admittedly, it may have errors, but those will be corrected as soon as they are made known to me. Some have been confirmed by first-party sites. The biggest problem with this site is the lack of information; rarely has a reported school been incorrect.

Third, this site focuses solely on federal appellate clerks. There are numerous resources for Supreme Court clerks, and it does not track staff attorneys.

Fourth, this particular blog only looks at those hired for the 2007-2008 term. Originally, I made an exception for a few exceptions for judges who hire one year in advance (for example, Katzman and Cabranes). I retracted the (few) 2008-2009 clerks listed. The list includes both current students and alumni, as long as they will clerk in 2007-2008.

Finally, check out the 2006 and 2007 version of the Law Firm Addict, a source for placement of summer associates into Vault 100 firms.

Thanks!

Vault 100 clerkship salary bonus chart

The chart below indicates the clerkship salary bonus that the Vault 100 (2008) firms offer federal COA clerks. Some notes:
-The chart uses the highest number for an office if different offices give different amounts.
-The chart uses only the official number of the firm, not the number that some may negotiate or that some clerks may receive for working for a particular judge or circuit.
-The second number indicates what, if anything, a two-year clerk receives (or "cbc" if case-by-case).
-Blanks are unknown data.
-All numbers are in thousands of dollars.

Last updated March 19, 2008

1	Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz	$0
2	Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP	$50
3	Sullivan & Cromwell LLP	$50
4	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP	$50
5	Davis Polk & Wardwell	$50
6	Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP	$50
7	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP	$50
8	Latham & Watkins LLP	$50
9	Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP	$50
10	Covington & Burling LLP	$50
11	Kirkland & Ellis LLP	$50
12	Debevoise & Plimpton LLP	$50
13	Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison	$50
14	Shearman & Sterling LLP	$50
15	Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP	$35‡
16	Williams & Connolly LLP	$35
17	Sidley Austin LLP	$50
18	Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP	$50
19	O’Melveny & Myers LLP	$50
20	White & Case LLP	$50
21	Arnold & Porter LLP	$50
22	Jones Day	$50
23	Morrison & Foerster LLP	$50
24	Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP	$15
25	Clifford Chance LLP
26	Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP	$15
27	Hogan & Hartson LLP	$35
28	Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP	$35
29	Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson	$50
30	Ropes & Gray LLP	$50
31	Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP	$50
32	Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP	$50
33	Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP	$50
34	Winston & Strawn LLP	$50
35	Dewey Ballantine LLP	$50
36	Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati	$20
37	Linklaters
38	Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP	$40
39	Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
40	Proskauer Rose LLP
41	King & Spalding LLP	$10
42	Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP	$25
43	Quinn Emanuel Urguhart Oliver & Hedges LLP	$50
44	Baker & McKenzie
45	Baker Botts L.L.P.	$35
46	Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
47	Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP	$35
48	Dechert LLP	$50
49	Irell & Manella LLP	$50
50	McDermott Will & Emery	$35
51	Jenner & Block LLP	$35
52	LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP	$50
53	Allen & Overy LLP
54	DLA Piper	$35
55	Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP	$50
56	Fish & Richardson P.C.
57	Fulbright & Jaworski LLP	$35
58	Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
59	Goodwin Procter LLP
60	Cooley Godward LLP
61	Alston & Bird LLP
62	Heller Ehrman LLP
63	Vinson & Elkins LLP
64	Bingham McCutchen LLP	$50
65	Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
66	Greenberg Traurig, LLP	$0
67	Kaye Scholer LLP
68	Holland & Knight LLP
69	Steptoe & Johnson LLP
70	Foley & Lardner LLP	$35
71	Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP
72	Chadbourne & Parke LLP
73	Hunton & Williams LLP
74	Nixon Peabody LLP
75	Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP
76	Bryan Cave LLP
77	Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
78	Perkins Coie LLP
79	Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
80	Patton Boggs LLP
81	Howrey LLP
82	Reed Smith LLP	$20
83	Crowell & Moring LLP	$25
84	McGuireWoods LLP	$10
85	Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
86	Arent Fox PLLC	$20
87	Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP	$10
88	Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner L.L.P.	$70°
89	Dorsey & Whitney LLP
90	Thelen Reid & Priest LLP
91	Baker & Hostetler LLP
92	Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP	$50
93	Venable LLP
94	Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP
95	Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
96	Dickstein Shapiro LLP
97	Fenwick & West LLP
98	Kilpatrick Stockton LLP	$5
99	Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo PC
100	Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP	$35

†Two-year bonus awarded for district clerkship plus appellate clerkship.

‡Firm has announced a higher clerkship bonus than reported here; however, firm has reduced or eliminated other stipends for incoming associates, and the announced "bonus" listed here has been reduced by other stipends included in that bonus to reflect the net clerkship bonus. Additionally, firm offers $50K bonus for Federal Circuit clerkships.

°Awarded for Federal Circuit clerkships only.