Fixing the Clerkship System: WOBL and Legal Accountability Project

So, you want to clerk? How will you avoid judges who harass their clerks? Law schools tell students to “do their research” before applying for judicial clerkships. But what does this mean, in practice, considering how little information about judicial work environments law schools provide?

Join Aliza Shatzman, President and Founder of The Legal Accountability Project (LAP), the first and only nonprofit ensuring that judicial law clerks have positive clerkship experiences, while extending support and resources to those who do not, for a candid conversation about judicial accountability and clerking. Aliza is the brainchild behind LAP’s Centralized Clerkships Database (AKA “Glassdoor for Judges”), a nationwide clerkship transparency platform containing 1,500+ reviews of judges that democratizes clerkship information for students. LAP’s innovative, award-winning Clerkships Database is the answer to students’ questions about judges’ managerial styles and chambers culture, spotlighting both excellent employers to apply to, and judges to avoid. Aliza will explain the reforms LAP works on to ensure transparency, accountability, diversity, and equity in judicial clerkships and the judiciary.

Learn how you can get involved with LAP’s clerkship transparency movement right now. By fostering candid dialogue about workplace conduct, LAP is transforming the clerkship system and legal profession for the next generation of attorneys, shining a spotlight on historically under-discussed issues, and innovating in slow-to-change spaces.

Lunch will be provided! RSVP here.