Law Clerk Applicants

​All Law Clerk positions with the Supreme Court of New Mexico are full-time, at-will positions. Generally, law students apply for a clerkship during their second year of law school for a term that would begin in September of the following year after graduation. Each Justice accepts applications to serve as a law clerk, and terms offered may be for one or two years. Ideally, applications should be submitted by the last Friday in June of the year preceding the year that the applicant hopes to serve as a law clerk, but applications may be submitted throughout the year.

Law Clerk applications should be sent to the attention of the Supreme Court Chief Clerk and may be emailed in a consolidated PDF document to nmsupremecourtclerk@nmcourts.gov or sent by regular mail to the following address:

• Chief Clerk
  Supreme Court of New Mexico
  P.O. Box 848
  Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504–0848

All applications must include the following:

• letter of interest
• resume
• current law school transcript and most recent grades
• three letters of recommendation
• one writing sample

To view the Law Clerk job description please Click Here.

The New Mexico Judicial Branch of Government is an Equal Opportunity Employer.