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Judge Newman Faces More Hurdles In Bid To End Suspension

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.”

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Standards Are Murky As Legal Employers Vet Protesters

“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.

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Clerk Database Founder On Cruel Judges, Law School Inertia

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.

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New website will let law clerks judge their judges

Aliza Shatzman, President and Founder of LAP, spoke with The Washington Post about LAP’s unprecedented step to ensure transparency, accountability, and equity in clerkship hiring by democratizing clerkship information. In March 2024, LAP will launch our Centralized Clerkships Database for the first cohort of student users.

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Judge Clerkship Database to Launch With Hundreds of Testimonials

Aliza Shatzman, President and Founder of LAP, spoke with Bloomberg Law about LAP’s unprecedented step to ensure transparency, accountability, and equity in clerkship hiring by democratizing clerkship information. In March 2024, LAP will launch our Centralized Clerkships Database for the first cohort of student users.

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