A Law Clerk Hiring Update: Justice Souter Picks His Posse

On information and belief, Justice David H. Souter has hired his law clerks for October Term 2006. Here are two of them:

1. Boris Bershteyn (Yale '04/Cabranes)

2. Bryan Leach (Yale '05/Cabranes)

Hmm... Both male Yalies, who both clerked for Judge Jose Cabranes, the highly regarded Second Circuit judge (and, more importantly, the dad of UTR's Most Delicious Diva). C'mon, Justice Souter, you're a lib -- can't you do a little better in the diversity department? Hiring clerks to a Latino judge doesn't count.

Rumor has it that the other two DHS hires are from Harvard and Michigan. Do you know who they are? Share the dish with A3G, by email!

(Update: See this post for the identity of the Harvard clerk, and this post for the identity of the Michigan clerk.)

Comments

[anonymous]

Actually, Boris fills the "recent immigrant" diversity category, hailing from the Ukraine. This information is publicly available on the web, since he was a Soros Fellow in 2001.

[Goldie]

He looks even better in real life! But of course he's married and recently became a dad.

[Bryan Leach Groupie]

Yeah, totally hot -- like Jason Biggs, but way cuter!

[Goldie]

Not sarcastic. Ironic! Bryan has film star looks!

[Clerk]

For the record, I think that the comment by "Goldie" is supposed to be sarcastic.

[Goldie]

well, Bryan Leach doesn't have his looks in his favor: http://www.marshallscholarship.org/scholars/2000/leach_bryan_w.jpg

[Mary K. Day-Petrano]

Article III Groupie,

Those of us of a diversity minset would be in favor, if you would so kindly agree, of your posting whether or not any of these Elite Clerk hires are disabled, any reaonable accommodations they might have utilized to achieve their careers, and what types of disabilities they have overcome. It's kind of the in-thing among the diversity crowd these days. At least here in Florida, where The Florida Bar is undergoing a Kafkasque diversity metamorphoses.

Thanks much, from an avid fan Article III fan!