Judges Signal Support for LAP’s Clerkship Database

Today LAP announced a new initiative - the LAP Pledge - to publicly signal judiciary support for LAP’s Clerkship Database and the principles that motivate it, particularly transparency in hiring.

We’re asking judges to circulate LAP’s post-clerkship survey–which asks a variety of questions about judges as managers, chambers culture, and the clerkship experience–to their law clerk families and to pledge to send the survey to their current and future clerks at the end of their clerkships. This will help ensure both that our Clerkships Database is representative of federal and state courts nation-wide, and that judges’ clerks’ perspectives are represented as the initial cohort of student users begins reading reviews of judges in our Database this clerkship application cycle.

A list of our Founding Pledge Takers can be found on our website here. We encourage more judges to support LAP’s clerkship transparency movement and join our efforts to improve and diversify the clerkship system.