The Legal Accountability Project Launches Centralized Clerkships Database, Upending the Clerkship System.
Sunday, April 8, 2024
For Immediate Release
Contact: Aliza Shatzman, 267-481-2095, aliza.shatzman@legalaccountabilityproject.org
The Legal Accountability Project Launches Centralized Clerkships Database, Upending the Clerkship System
Today, judicial clerkship hiring changed forever. The Legal Accountability Project (LAP) launched our Centralized Clerkships Database for the first cohort of student users, upending the clerkship system. This is an unprecedented step to ensure transparency, accountability, and equity in judicial clerkships and the judiciary.
Today, LAP’s Clerkships Database contains more than 950 candid post-clerkship surveys from former federal and state clerks nationwide. LAP’s Database, which continues to grow, currently contains clerkship experiences from every state and circuit in the nation, submitted by former clerks from more than 100 U.S. law schools. LAP’s Database is the largest independent repository of clerkship information in the nation, and it is twice the size of many top law schools’ internal clerkships databases.
Individual law students and graduates can register right now at survey.legalaccountabilityproject.org for Clerkships Database access this year for $20 per user. In addition, LAP will make the Database available to all students at any law school that pays an annual cost of $5 per law student, as well as to student organizations and law journals at this same bulk subscribers rate, for groups of 50 or more students. As law schools subscribe to the Database, individual students will no longer be required to pay an annual fee.
LAP has achieved what few thought possible: we have finally democratized information about judges and judicial clerkships. We’re excited for clerkship applicants to benefit from the Clerkships Database this hiring cycle. This spring, hundreds of students will benefit from our platform to identify a beneficial clerkship experience and avoid judges who mistreat their clerks. Heading into the first clerkship hiring cycle in which clerkship applicants can truly be informed and discerning consumers of clerkship opportunities, and truly understand the work environments they are entering, LAP has never been more optimistic about the future of judicial clerkships and the judiciary,.