The Legal Accountability Project Achieves An Important Milestone, Publishing Our 1,000th Post-Clerkship Survey

Monday, May 6, 2024

For Immediate Release

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

The Legal Accountability Project Achieves An Important Milestone, Publishing Our 1,000th Post-Clerkship Survey

This week, The Legal Accountability Project (LAP) celebrated an important milestone in our efforts to democratize judicial clerkship information, publishing our 1,000th candid post-clerkship survey in LAP’s Centralized Clerkships Database.

When LAP launched our post-clerkship survey one year ago and began collecting survey responses from federal and state clerks nationwide, we set an initial goal of collecting 1,000 surveys prior to launch. LAP chose this number because it would make LAP’s Clerkships Database twice the size of most top schools’ internal databases.

Over the past year, LAP has been collecting surveys from former law clerks nationwide in collaboration with alumni from more than 40 law schools. We have worked doggedly to compile the broadest, most robust information possible.

LAP’s Clerkships Database is only as good as the strength of our information. We’re grateful to the more than 1,000 law clerks who have shared their clerkship experiences with us. Some shared - or shared candidly - for the first time.

We’re not stopping at 1,000 surveys. We intend to double this number of surveys within the next year.

Heading into the first clerkship application cycle where hundreds of law students will benefit from LAP’s Clerkships Database to identify a beneficial clerkship and avoid judges who mistreat their clerks, LAP has never been more optimistic about the future of judicial clerkships and the judiciary. We have upended the clerkship system.