Aliza Shatzman is the President and Founder of The Legal Accountability Project, a nonprofit aimed at ensuring that law clerks have positive clerkship experiences, while extending support and resources to those who do not. She regularly writes and speaks about judicial accountability, clerkships, and diversity in the courts. Reach out to her via email at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter @AlizaShatzman.
What do you call it when law schools withhold negative information about judges from students and try to prevent them from accessing candid clerkship information beyond the school’s approved resources? Lying.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, like other state courts, is the backstop for democracy.
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Why are judges still above the law?
We cannot allow the courts to quietly reassign clerks year after year while shielding judges from accountability.
So, you want to clerk -- how will you avoid judges who harass their clerks?
LAP is the only source of candid negative information about judges to avoid.
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Behind closed doors, in every federal circuit and courthouse, year after year, judges mistreat clerks with impunity.
This is the biggest judicial accountability story since Joshua Kindred resigned in scandal last year, but the federal courts would prefer you not know about it.
You’d be foolish to argue against transparency, just like you’d be foolish to bet against LAP.
Nothing changes about the hostile work environment in chambers, and the vicious cycle of mistreatment repeats.
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