The Legal Accountability Project Takes Home Two Awards at 2024 American Legal Technology Awards
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
For Immediate Release
Contact: Aliza Shatzman, 267-481-2095, aliza.shatzman@legalaccountabilityproject.org
The Legal Accountability Project Takes Home Two Awards at 2024 American Legal Technology Awards
The Legal Accountability Project (LAP) and our President and Founder, Aliza Shatzman, were honored to win two awards at Sunday night’s 2024 American Legal Technology Awards (ALTA) in Austin, Texas. Aliza and LAP were recognized in both the Court and Individual categories for creating LAP’s Centralized Clerkships Database to empower clerkship applicants with critical information about judicial work environments.
Two and a half years ago, Aliza and LAP embarked on an audacious mission: to fix the judicial clerkship system by democratizing judicial clerkship information. LAP’s theory of change was to use innovative legal technology, thought leadership, and advocacy to create systemic change in the judiciary and legal profession.
Last spring, LAP upended the system entirely, launching our first-in-the-nation Centralized Clerkships Database. This initiative, compared to "Glassdoor for Judges,” is a repository of more than 1,400 candid clerkship reviews about nearly 1,000 judges submitted by former judicial clerks nationwide, accessible to applicants nationwide, thereby correcting the lack of transparency; diversity and equity; and accountability in judicial clerkships, the judiciary, and the legal profession generally.
Some thought it couldn't be done. Others thought it shouldn't be done. Yet Aliza and LAP proved through persistence, tenacity, and an unwavering belief that LAP was the right solution at the right time, that innovative legal technology is the solution to the broken judicial clerkship system.
“Seeing the nationwide clerkship transparency movement LAP sparked as I’ve traveled the country in support of LAP’s work over the past few years, and witnessing not just the energy, but the meaningful change we have created on law school campuses and in courthouses nationwide, I am particularly optimistic that judicial clerkships, the judiciary, and the legal profession will be better for future generations,” Aliza Shatzman said.
Aliza and LAP are honored to receive this recognition for our innovative and disruptive work. Thanks to ALTA’s founders, Thomas Martin, Cat Moon, and Patrick Palace, for making this recognition possible.
You can read more about the American Legal Technology Awards here.