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“Working at Babcock Law Firm, I learned more about being an “actual lawyer” than I would have at larger firms or even in law school. Being in the top 6% of my class, my offers and experience were limited to the larger law firms. At the larger law firms and even in law school, they do not educate you on how to draft actual pleadings and court documents or even what those documents actually look like. I am certainly glad I took the opportunity to work at Babcock Law Firm to gain such experience and get hands-on experience with real clients and their cases. I definitely feel more comfortable and more confident with the profession than I would have limiting my experiences to working at the larger firms.”
—Meghan Boyce, Southern University Law Center Class of 2008,
Law Review
"As a “top-ten-percenter,” all of my prior clerking experience was with large law firms across Texas and Louisiana where I was limited to drafting memos to partners, and then going to lunch.Within 24 hours of starting at Babcock Law Firm I was totally emerged in real client work, researching and drafting actual court pleading in state and federal court on cases worth tens of millions of dollars.If you want to get real world experience in a high stakes commercial litigation practice, this is the place to be.”
—B. Lee Carr, LSU Law Class of 2006, Law Review, Order of the Coif
Law Clerk Offerings
Babcock Law Firm is always looking for law clerks with good grades and what it takes to succeed after law school. Our law clerks become directly involved in client work on their first day on the job. We are not a firm that gets caught up in the frills of lavishly courting law clerks; however, if you want to get in the mix of some real world legal stuff, this could be the place for you.
Our firm is getting a solid reputation for getting law clerks real world experience. At the time of this page update (summer of 2008) our firm has four full-time law clerks and we have a waiting list of law clerks who would like to “intern” at our firm, without pay, simply for the benefit of the work experience we provide. We typically try to keep one of these “interns” in the firm at all times, because it gives clerks who might not meet our scholastic standards a chance to work with us. Sound hard to believe? Ask someone that has worked for us.
The firm provides bonuses to students who complete a judicial clerkship prior to joining the firm, if our offer is accepted before the judicial clerkship begins. Bonus amounts are as follows and are paid when the judicial clerk begins working with us:
- $5,000 Federal Clerkship or Clerkship in the Highest Court of the State (usually State Supreme Court)
- $5,000 State District Court
- $25,000 Supreme Court Clerkship
Lateral Addition of Lawyers
We are always open to adding established lawyers on a lateral basis to our firm. Our primary goal in considering such additions is that the decision be one that will serve both the candidate and ourselves over the long term. We envision the most successful additions to be candidates with whom we are professionally acquainted.
Our interest is limited to candidates who have established practices where both the client base served and the specialty area of practice are compatible with our existing practice. As a benchmark, candidates expecting to be considered as a lateral hire should have an established practice sufficient to keep himself or herself and one other person, either associate or paralegal, fully occupied. Our interest includes lateral prospects whose client bases and skills will complement or supplement our litigation and appellate practices. We are open to considering other areas, in which case our first task with the candidate is to conclude whether there is a practice fit.
Inquiries or indications of interest by lateral candidates should be directed to Stephen Babcock. He may be contacted either by e-mail, or at 225.344.0911.
