LAP’s President Aliza Shatzman spoke with Law360 about systemic workplace issues plaguing the federal courts, barriers to meaningful reform, and necessary changes to truly ensure safe workplaces for judiciary employees.

The nationwide #MeToo movement and meaningful workplace reforms have not yet reached the federal judiciary. Law clerk advocates’ and lawmakers’ concerns about sexual harassment and abusive conduct in the federal courts have only been heightened by the AO’s release this week of its 2023 Workplace Report.

The federal judiciary’s 2023 Workplace Report did little to quiet calls from lawmakers and law clerk advocates for sweeping reform.

Aliza Shatzman and LAP were honored to win two awards at the 2024 American Legal Technology Awards, in both the Individual and Court categories.

Aliza Shatzman spoke with NBC News' Lawrence Hurley about Notre Dame Law School's increasing influence over the Supreme Court through its clerkship advising and relationships with judges and justices.

The Columbia clerks boycott “is a public example of what judges were already doing,” Aliza Shatzman told Law360. And “it could worsen inequities that already exist in clerkship hiring.”

Aliza Shatzman spoke with Zia Saylor from Jewish Women’s Archive about the experiences that inspired her to launch LAP to correct injustices she experienced as a law student and law clerk.

“Clerks working in smaller legal communities like Anchorage can also be more susceptible to unsafe workplaces,” Aliza Shatzman told Bloomberg Law. “There are very few judges, which means there are very few safe places to go to report mistreatment.”

“The judiciary cannot and should not self-police,” Aliza Shatzman told Reuters’ Nate Raymond following former Alaska federal judge Joshua Kindred’s resignation.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman’s lawsuit against her colleagues. Then, the Judicial Council called for a second year’s suspension due to Newman’s “ongoing misconduct.”

“More sweeping reforms and real accountability are still desperately needed” following Alaska federal judge Joshua Kindred’s resignation, Aliza Shatzman told Law360’s Courtney Buble.

It's not surprising that appalling abuse continues unabated in the federal judiciary, considering the lack of guardrails to prevent it, Aliza Shatzman told NPR’s Carrie Johnson following Alaska federal judge Joshua Kindred’s resignation.

Sweeping reform and real accountability are desperately needed, Aliza Shatzman told The New York Times, in the wake of former Alaska federal judge Joshua Kindred’s resignation following a Judicial Council investigation into sexual misconduct allegations.

“This ‘clearly unserious’ decision [by 13 federal judges boycotting Columbia clerks] highlights a larger problem in law clerk hiring. These judges are merely ‘saying the quiet part out loud,’ since hashtag#clerkship hiring is already ‘overwhelmingly focused on who judges want to hang out with,’ Aliza Shatzman told Law360’s Cara Bayles for this piece about the legal industry implications of this school year’s student protests.

“The judiciary needs some more people to poke at them,” Aliza Shatzman told NPR’s Carrie Johnson. “Far too many judges mistreat their clerks, and they should be held accountable.”

Aliza Shatzman spoke with NPR’s Carrie Johnson about why judiciary workplace misconduct policies are ineffective, and what needs to change.

Professor Jade Craig reviewed LAP President Aliza Shatzman’s Columbia Law Review article, “The Clerkships Whisper Network: What It Is, Why It’s Broken, and How To Fix It,” for Jotwell.

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman spoke with Reuters for our first press hit since the official launch of LAP’s first-of-its-kind Centralized Clerkships Database.

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman spoke with Business Insider about the launch of LAP’s first-of-its-kind Centralized Clerkships Database, an unprecedented step to ensure transparency, equity, and accountability in judicial clerkships and the judiciary.

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman spoke with Law360's Cara Bayles in advance of LAP's clerkships database launch about LAP’s initiative to democratize information about judges by providing clerks with honest information about judges as managers. In March 2024, LAP will launch our Centralized Clerkships Database for the first cohort of student users.