Legal Employers generally have had a fairly easy time identifying good law student candidates to hire for Summer clerkships or ats first-year associates. The task of identifying a good candidate simply meant  looking for a law student who had decent grades, some legal writing experience or some practical legal experience in a clinic or clerkship. Once identified, the candidate was interviewed. If he or she was not insufferably arrogant,, immature or naive, the candidate was offered the position.

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