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Re: CA Supreme Court vs. CD CA

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Jul 26, 2014 2:39 pm

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Anonymous User wrote:I'll echo other sentiments regarding Justice Liu: Great reputation, but extremely difficult to get. He really only hires clerks who have CoA experience. And not just anyone, either. For example, one of his SCOTUS clerks for the upcoming term was a Rakoff/Katzmann clerk first. The other was a Reinhardt/Tatel clerk.
I think some of this is attributable to being a new judge--many COA judges similarly like to hire experienced clerks in their first term or two. At least one of his 2015-'16 clerks will be coming straight from law school.
And another one will be coming off a prior district court clerkship.

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Re: CA Supreme Court vs. CD CA

Post by TLS » Mon Oct 19, 2026 3:34 am

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