The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota invites applications for the
position of Career Law Clerk for a United States Magistrate Judge. This position will be hired
initially as a two-year term with potential to move to a permanent law clerk position. The
anticipated start date for this position will be June 16, 2025.

Law Clerks are an integral part of chambers as they consult with the judge on civil and criminal
matters pending before the Court, research legal issues, draft legal memoranda, opinions and
orders, prepare pre-hearing bench memoranda that identify issues for the judge and questions
for the parties, and prepare the judge for hearings, settlement conferences, and trials.

Law clerk duties include reviewing briefs and other case filings, performing legal research,
writing bench memoranda, and drafting orders and opinions in a wide variety of civil and
criminal cases. Administrative duties will include serving as principal administrative manager of
chambers, regularly reviewing the active case docket and drafting standard scheduling orders
as necessary, training and assisting the term law clerks and student externs and managing the
judge’s schedule.

*Applications received in response to Term Law Clerk vacancy announcement 2025-07 will be
automatically considered for this position. These applicants do not need to submit a new
application.

At the time of appointment, the candidate must possess the following minimum requirements:
• Graduation from a law school of recognized standing, and have one or more of the
following attributes:
o Standing within the upper third of the law school class from a law school on the
approved list of either the American Bar Association or the Association of
American Law Schools;
o Experience on the editorial board of a law review of such a school;
o Graduation from such a school with an LLM degree; or
o Demonstrated proficiency in legal studies, which in the opinion of the appointing
judge is the equivalent of one of the above.

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