LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visited The Newfangled Lawyer Podcast to speak with Patrick Patino about how she’s disrupting the status quo and upending the clerkship system in order to correct injustices in the judiciary and legal profession.

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visited The Justice Podcast to speak with Bobby Stroup about her work to improve the clerkship system and hold judges accountable for misconduct.

It’s been a while since LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman thought about the LSAT.

On LSAT Demon’s Thinking LSAT podcast, Aliza demystified judicial clerkships for a prelaw audience and explained how LAP is working to improve the clerkship system for the next generation of legal professionals.

The legal profession places an enormous premium on getting judicial clerkships, which usually offer both valuable learning experiences and a major boost to a young lawyer’s future prospects. But, are there potential downsides to clerkships? Some law clerks have a wonderful experience, but too many have had an experience marked by harassment and mistreatment at the hands of an abusive judge. Molly Ranns and JoAnn Hathaway welcome Aliza Shatzman to talk about her personal story and her efforts to bring transparency and awareness about the full range of clerkship experiences to lift current stigmas and prevent future judiciary workplace mistreatment. 

LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visited Lawyers Who Lead to speak with Sigalle Barness. Aliza shares how her clerkship experience quickly became one of mistreatment and harassment. Realizing there were no resources to support or protect her, Aliza persevered by filing a judicial complaint, advocating for legislation to extend to law clerks and federal public defenders, and ultimately creating a platform to provide more transparency and accountability for in the clerkship system. Aliza's story shows how speaking up about our personal experiences, even when faced with those who hold more power than us, can create real and systemic change. 


LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visited Strangers on the Internet podcast to discuss the sexual misconduct allegations involving former GMU Law professor Joshua Wright.

LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visited ABA Asked & Answered to discuss the investigation into 96-year-old Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, as well as why investigations of judges under the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act should happen more regularly.

LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visited How I Lawyer Podcast to share her journey from aspiring homicide prosecutor to judicial accountability advocate and nonprofit founder with Professor Jonah Perlin.

LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman returned to the California Appellate Law Podcast to discuss the nuanced situation in the Federal Circuit: an inquiry into 96-year-old Judge Pauline Newman’s alleged disability and workplace conduct.

LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visits The Law of Tech podcast to discuss LAP’s legal technology initiative, the Centralized Clerkships Database, which increases transparency in the clerkship application process by democratizing information about judges.

LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman explains why doing the right thing is also good business for law schools on the New York City Bar Association - Office for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging podcast, Building Belonging.

LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman weighed in for Bloomberg Law’s On The Merits podcast about the controversy surrounding 96-year-old Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman.

LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visited Powerhouse Lawyers to discuss LAP’s efforts to increase diversity, transparency, and accountability in clerkships, the judiciary, and the legal profession. LAP's work empowers women lawyers throughout the profession.

LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visits You Are A Lawyer Podcast to explain how LAP makes clerkships better - changing the conversation, transforming the application process, and ensuring safer workplaces for the next generation of attorneys.

LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visits the Life Leaps Podcast to discuss her leap into the world of advocacy following a negative clerkship experience that upended her professional aspirations and set her on the path to affecting change for future generations of clerks.

LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visits the On Record PR podcast to speak with host Leslie Richards about providing law clerks with the resources they need to foster positive clerkship experiences.

LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visits the Journey to Esquire Podcast to speak about judicial clerkships and The Legal Accountability Project.

On Parenthetically, LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman speaks with hosts Francesca Merrick and Jacob Park about protecting law clerks from workplace misconduct.

On Winding Paths, LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman speaks with host Joseph Gerstel about her path from law student and aspiring homicide prosecutor, to law clerk, to advocate and entrepreneur.

On The Tech Savvy Lawyer, LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman speaks with host Michael Eisenberg about using legal technology to hold federal judges accountable.