This year, hiring bonuses for former Supreme Court clerks at major law firms are expected to reach $250,000. That sounds like an extraordinary and unwarranted sum. In today’s New York Times, however, Above the Law‘s David Lat argues that these gargantuan bonuses may be irrational for individual firms, but good for the legal system as a whole.
even if the astronomical Supreme Court clerkship bonuses may be dubious investments for law firms, they are good news for our legal system. Here