Three MSU Law students will launch their careers next spring with important federal clerkships for 2025.
While the third-year students participated in many extra-curricular programs during law school, they credit their work on the Michigan State Law Review in helping prepare them for these prestigious and challenging roles.
Anna Maxwell
Nicholas Langenberg
Thomas Gliniecki
Anna Maxwell, ’25, of Richmond, Michigan, will clerk for the Hon. Judge Rebecca Beach Smith of the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Nicholas Langenberg, ’25, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, will serve as a judicial ethics clerk to the Hon. Judge Robert J. Jonker, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan.
Thomas Gliniecki, ’25, of Dimondale, Michigan, will clerk for the Hon. Judge Paul L. Maloney, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan.
“While my research on the Citing Slavery Project and my role as a brief writer and oralist in Moot Court helped my application, I credit my position as Editor-in-Chief of Michigan State Law Review with securing my clerkship,” said Maxwell.
She plans to be an appellate law litigator focusing on the juvenile justice system and providing pro bono services.
Langenberg points to the Michigan State Law Review, the Moot Court program, and Research-Assistant Program in preparing him.
“Law Review has honed my attention to detail and taught me the nuts and bolts of legal writing,” he said. “My experiences in Moot Court have taught me how to craft legal arguments and how to think about both sides of an issue. And my experiences as a Research Assistant to Professors (Jeremy) Francis and (Daphne) O’Regan helped me produce quality work while also working under tight deadlines.
“I intend to work at Miller Johnson in Grand Rapids, which is where I live with my partner and children,” he said.
Says Gliniecki, “There's a lot of credit to go around. But I'd point to the Michigan State Law Review helping hone my writing, the moot court program helping with research skills, and the Trial Practice Institute familiarizing me with the sorts of filings and motions trial courts deal with every day.”
His post-graduation plan is to work at Bodman in its Grand Rapids’ litigation group.