Ag Law In The Field

Today's guest is one of my childhood friends thanks to New Mexico 4-H and FFA, Erin Hawley.  Erin grew up the 6th generation on her family's beef cattle operation in northeastern New Mexico.  She obtained her animal science degree from Texas A&M University and went on to graduate from Yale Law School.  She was hired by then-Judge John Roberts on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.  When Judge Roberts was appointed to the United States Supreme Court during the time Erin's clerkship was set to begin, she worked at a law firm for year, then clerked for a judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and was eventually hired to be Chief Justice Roberts' clerk at the United States Supreme Court. Erin talks about the responsibilities of the clerks, what their work entails, what the hours are like, and more about what happens inside the Supreme Court from a law clerk perspective.  She shares what it is like to review cert petitions, how terrifying it was to help Chief Justice Roberts prepare for oral argument, an