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| SUPERIOR COURT Join Our Team Law Clerks |
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 Law Clerk Positions—How to Apply. |
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As President Judge of the Superior Court of the State of Delaware, I invite interested law students to apply for challenging judicial law clerk positions available in our Court. A judicial clerkship with our Court offers many exciting and challenging opportunities for recent law school Our Court is the trial court of general jurisdiction which means that we handle all types of criminal and civil cases including appeals from the Court of Common Pleas and more than 50 administrative agencies. We have 21 judges located in our three counties. There are 15 judges in New Castle County, three judges in Kent County, and three judges in our southern most county, Sussex County. The New Castle County Courthouse is located in Wilmington. The Kent County Courthouse is located in our capital, Dover. The Sussex County Courthouse is located in Georgetown, about 25 minutes from the Delaware beaches. The majority of our judges rotate through the criminal and civil divisions every three months and this rotation system provides our law clerks with tremendous experience in both arenas. Law clerks have the opportunity to watch trials, hearings, motions, office conferences, scheduling conferences and pretrial conferences. In addition, law clerks routinely play a major role in drafting opinions. In New Castle County the courthouse is a new multi-million dollar building located on five acres in the Christina Gateway section of the city of Wilmington. In Kent and Sussex Counties the courthouses are renovated historic buildings. In each courthouse we employ state of the art courtroom technologies. We are gratified that Superior
Court was again ranked first overall for the ninth year in a State Liability Systems Ranking Study. The study gauges the "perceived fairness or reasonableness" of state
courts in civil jury trials. Respondents, the 1,125 corporate general
counsels and senior litigators and other senior attorneys graded all 50 states in each of the
categories. Delaware, again, for the ninth year was ranked number one overall. We welcome interested students
to apply for these clerkship positions. To be considered for clerkship positions, you must be a third-year
law student who will have graduated before the clerkship begins. The starting salary as of
2012 is $50,243.68 which increases yearly, subject to appropriations. |
