Chancery Master

Most days tend to involve handling equity matters — corporate fiduciary disputes, complex real-estate equity, injunctions, accountings, and other matters historically handled by chancery courts. You'll often handle motion calendars and conferences in the morning, conduct evidentiary hearings or write decisions in the afternoon, and engage with chancery clerks, attorneys, and the senior judges.

The hardest parts tend to be the substantive depth of chancery law and the institutional importance of jurisdictions like Delaware. Delaware Chancery decisions shape national corporate law, and the standard of legal craft is very high. Settings vary — Delaware Chancery is the most prominent and competitive; Mississippi and Tennessee chancery courts handle a broader range of equity work; some states have merged chancery into general jurisdiction.

People who tend to thrive here are intellectually rigorous, deeply learned in equity jurisprudence, comfortable with substantive case complexity, and energized by the institutional weight of chancery work. If you want general trial-court breadth, chancery is narrow. If you find satisfaction in being a senior voice in one of the most sophisticated legal traditions in American law, the role can be intellectually defining and influential.