Judges have often hired applicants for judicial clerkships as early as the beginning of a student’s second year of law school. In the new federal law clerk hiring program, judges are asked to consider and hire applicants during the fall of the student’s third year of law school. Learn what federal appellate judges and law clerks say about their experience with the new program in The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks. The full text is available at the bottom of the page.