The Legal Accountability Project is honored to receive the Limitless Leadership Award from Ms. JD in recognition of our pathbreaking work on behalf of women law students and lawyers.

At a time when public confidence in the federal courts is low and misconduct is pervasive and unaddressed, the federal judiciary’s 2023 Workplace Report fails to meet the moment. Sweeping reform is urgently necessary to ensure safe judiciary workplaces and accountability for judges who engage in misconduct.

LAP was honored to win two awards at the 2024 American Legal Technology Awards - in the Court and Individual categories - for creating LAP's Centralized Clerkships Database to democratize judicial clerkships.

LAP has added nearly a dozen new Advisory Board members as we expand our reach to more courts, law schools, and regions this school year.

LAP applauds the reintroduction of the Judiciary Accountability Act (JAA), which would finally extend anti-discrimination protections to the federal judiciary.

Following the ruling in former federal public defender’s sexual harassment case, the urgency of sweeping reform to ensure fair, safe, and respectful judiciary workplaces is clear.

LAP shares its Year 1 Clerkships Database numbers by law school user base and urges more schools to subscribe during the 2024-25 school year.

Following the Federal Judicial Center/National Academy of Public Administration Report highlighting flaws in federal judiciary internal dispute resolution processes, LAP urges the federal judiciary to implement sweeping reform.

LAP announces summer waitlist for Clerkships Database and revised pricing for the 2024-25 school year.

Following the resignation of former Alaska federal judge Joshua Kindred, LAP calls for sweeping reform and real accountability.

The Legal Accountability Project celebrates two years of improving the judiciary through better clerkships.

The Legal Accountability Project is thrilled to introduce our new Advisory Board, a group of judges, law professors, and innovators who help inform our clerkship transparency, equity, and accountability work.

This week, The Legal Accountability Project published our 1000th post-clerkship survey, an important benchmark in our efforts to democratize judicial clerkship information.

On Sunday, April 8, 2024, judicial clerkship hiring changed forever. LAP launched our Centralized Clerkships Database for the first cohort of student users, an unprecedented step to increase transparency, equity, and accountability in judicial clerkships and the judiciary.

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman was recognized as part of the 2024 NAWL Rising List for her committed to NAWL’s mission of advancing women in the profession and advocating for women under the law.

LAP announces the March 2024 Launch Date for our Centralized Clerkships Database, as well as the opening of the Pre-Registration Period for Database access. By broadening access to clerkship applicants nation-wide, LAP takes an unprecedented step to truly democratize judicial clerkship information.

Today LAP announced the LAP Pledge, our new initiative to publicly signal judiciary support for LAP’s Clerkships Database. It’s our answer to the question we receive most frequently: “What do judges think of LAP’s Clerkships Database?”

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman is honored to receive the New York City Bar Association - Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) 2023 Fire Starter Award, in recognition of her dedication and innovation in DEIB, sparking change, fostering belonging, and challenging norms in the legal profession.

Does LAP’s mission resonate with you? Would you like to help us improve and diversify the clerkship system for the next generation of attorneys? Join LAP’s board of directors!

On June 9, 2023, LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman ‘13 returned to her alma mater, Williams College, to speak at Dwelling of the Gallant during Reunion Weekend.