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I’m sure the finding that former clerks win more is relevant - but are they controlling for the caliber of attorney? The clerks as a whole are an extremely hard
by timwilder 6y ago
I’m sure the finding that former clerks win more is relevant - but are they controlling for the caliber of attorney? The clerks as a whole are an extremely hard working and talented subset of the legal industry and I would expect their results to also show favorably in almost any context later in their careers. It’s hard to overstate how competitive getting a scotus clerkship is.
- timwilder 6y agoOk. Read the paper, they do attempt to account for this in their confounding analysis but don’t control for it. 1. The lift is specifically strong for the judge they clerked for, and not for all of the judges 2. Federal clerks (also wildly competitive roles even if a bit less fancy) win about as much as scotus clerks from their analysis of another other data set, but don’t show some crazy single justice lift Interesting stuff