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Lauren Willard '11 will clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy during the 2012-13 term. Willard, originally from Northern Virginia, will be one of two Virginia Law alumni clerking at the Supreme Court beginning in July. One of her classmates, Rebecca Gantt '11, will be serving as a

Rebecca Gantt '11 will clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in the 2012-13 term. "I feel quite lucky," Gantt said. "It's obviously going to be challenging work, but I expect working on the cases to be really fascinating." Gantt is currently four months into her clerkship with Judge

As a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Daniel Bress ’05 appreciates researching and reasoning over cases with his co-clerks and boss, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ’72, as much as the tight-knit group's daily 3.5 mile run.

David Bragdon had just finished the first grueling day of the North Carolina bar exam — the third state bar exam he's taken — when he got the news that he was going to interview for a Supreme Court clerkship under Justice Clarence Thomas for the 2006-07 court year.

John Adams '03 had settled down to work in private practice after a postgraduate clerkship and a pre-law career as a naval officer when he heard one more call to duty.

When Allison Orr '04 runs her daily three miles with Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III '72 and her fellow law clerks at the University track during lunch, she takes the inside lane.

A confluence of events has conspired to boost the clerkship process from an individual application system to one in which the Law School processes everything centrally, making for better tracking of applications, better counseling of applicants, and better statistical tools for analyzing what makes a clerkship applicant successful.

Ryan Shores '03 felt nervous as he walked into Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's office, but found that the tough interview he was expecting was more like a conversation, as he talked with Rehnquist about the history of some of the furniture in his office.