Law Firms Pay Supreme Court Clerks $400k Bonuses.

[Grizzly]

For your edification, amusement or disgust...

Law Firms Pay Supreme Court Clerks $400k Bonuses. What Are They Buying?

Inside information and influence with the clerks’ former bosses may figure in the transactions, a new study suggests.

not sure who Adam Liptak, is, but he's of course part and parcel for the mockingbird press...

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices make $265,600 a year. The chief justice gets $277,700.

Their law clerks do a lot better. After a year of service at the court, they are routinely offered signing bonuses of $400,000 from law firms, on top of healthy salaries of more than $200,000.

What are the firms paying for? In a profession obsessed with shiny credentials, a Supreme Court clerkship glitters. Hiring former clerks burnishes the firms’ prestige, making them more attractive to clients.

Sometimes I wonder, if they don't let the truth out, if only to rub it in our faces.

[Harvey]

Law has become private property in our lifetime, both in the UK and US but probably throughout of the Anglosphere. Like all the apparatus of state. We may expensively rent it's usage but we don't have equal access and we certainly don't own it. Which begs the question, is the situation reversible? Is it largely corruption of personnel or is the malaise deeper, legislative and more lasting?