OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT

The Human Resources Office for the United States Court of International Trade recruits for all vacancies in the Office of the Clerk.

• There are no position vacancies at this time. Check back often for new employment opportunities.

JUDGE'S CHAMBERS

Clerkships

Each judge appoints his or her own personal staff, including law clerks, subject to the qualifications standards adopted by the Judicial Conference of the United States. Law clerks are appointed for a period of at least one year, but not more than four years*. The average appointment is for a two-year term.

The law clerk provides assistance to a judge with administrative and legal tasks. A broad range of duties include legal research, preparing bench memos, drafting orders and opinions, editing and proofreading the judge's orders and opinions, verifying citations, and performing other duties as assigned.

To qualify for the position of law clerk on the personal staff of a federal judge, a person must be a law school graduate (or be certified as having completed all law school studies and requirements and merely awaiting conferment of a degree) from a law school of recognized standing, and have one or more of the following attributes:

• Standing within the upper third of the law school class from a law school on the approved list of either the American Bar Association or the Association of American Law Schools;
• Experience on the editorial board of a law review of such a school;
• Graduation from such a school with an LLM degree; or
• Demonstrated proficiency in legal studies which in the opinion of the judge is the equivalent of one of the above.

For specific opportunities with individual judges, please consult the hiring policies delineated by the judges on their respective pages of this site or at the Online System for Clerkship Application and Review (OSCAR).

Internships

For specific opportunities with individual judges, please consult the hiring policies delineated by the judges on their respective pages of this site.