All UChicago Law Students Can Access LAP’s Database for Free, Thanks to A Generous Alumni Donation

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

For Immediate Release

Contact: Aliza Shatzman, 267-481-2095, aliza.shatzman@legalaccountabilityproject.org

All UChicago Law Students Can Access LAP’s Database for Free, Thanks to A Generous Alumni Donation

Thanks to a very generous donation by UChicago Law alumnus Sarah Cottrell (JD ‘08), all UChicago Law students who subscribe to LAP’s Clerkships Database can access the platform for free this year. 

Sarah Cottrell is the Founder of Former Lawyer, a returning LAP sponsor. LAP appreciates Former Lawyer’s continued support for our efforts to ensure transparency and accountability in judicial clerkships, the judiciary, and the legal profession generally. 

UChicago Law students can register for Database access at survey.legalaccountabilityproject.org to access candid clerkship information, beyond what their law school provides, right now. The clerkship application process is underway for many law students: LAP is proud to be a trusted, third-party resource for thousands of clerkship applicants who use our platform to do their research about judges and judicial clerkship opportunities. 

LAP is grateful that several donors over the past few months have stepped forward to cover Clerkships Database costs for students this year. Donors have also generously covered the Database subscription cost for Yale, Harvard, Columbia, and Vanderbilt Law students, with several more donations to be announced in the coming weeks. 

We hope more donors from more law schools will donate on behalf of students, thereby ensuring broad access to this critical information. Too many clerkship applicants still lack access to unbiased perspectives on clerking: LAP will continue to doggedly market our Clerkships Database to law students nationwide this spring, including through such student-oriented donor collaborations.