The Judiciary Is Still Unaccountable, And This Congress Won’t Fix It
It’s easy to lose sight of the cultural change LAP has created.
It’s easy to lose sight of the cultural change LAP has created.
Most misconduct isn’t formally reported.
Takeaways from a Legalweek panel on evolving malpractice risks.
Clerks alleged Griggsby created an abusive work environment and bullied them, causing mental anguish and health issues they attributed to their clerkships.
The judiciary has a harassment problem that no one cares to solve.
Words have consequences, and violent words lead to violent acts.
The Legal Accountability Project's data indicate that around 1 in 17 federal judges are abusive, which aligns with the federal judiciary’s own data.
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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.
Why are judges still above the law?
We cannot allow the courts to quietly reassign clerks year after year while shielding judges from accountability.
The new generation of AI-related legal issues are inherently cross-disciplinary, implicating corporate law, intellectual property, data privacy, employment, corporate governance and regulatory compliance.
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.
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.