Aliza Shatzman

The AO seems not to understand that there is no greater power disparity in the legal profession than between a fresh-out-of-law-school clerk and a life-tenured federal judge.

Apparently, even the slightest hint of criticism is equivalent to 'attacking' the courts.

You shouldn’t have to give up your civil rights.

Last week, Congress reintroduced legislation that will extend federal anti-discrimination protections to more than 30,000 federal judiciary employees, including law clerks and federal public defenders.

There is an information deficit -- at some schools, a total information blackout -- about judges’ managerial styles, chambers culture, work environments, and expectations for the role. And more often than not, that’s by design.

Caryn Devins Strickland’s ordeal highlights the need to pass the Judiciary Accountability Act (JAA) and extending Title VII protections to more than 30,000 federal judiciary employees.

Law clerks are watching. They are increasingly empowered to use their voices and share their experiences.

Clerkships are not all unicorns and fairy dust.

This manufactured controversy is just another example of the lack of transparency and equity in clerkship hiring.

Law schools do not adequately inform students about the downsides of clerking; the implications of this small, hierarchical, isolated work environment; and the lack of workplace protections and support for mistreated clerks.

Law clerks don’t quit when things are going well.

Begging for the name to be "Rate My Jurist."

The Legal Accountability Project has embraced a high-risk, high-reward strategy: using disruptive tactics to increase transparency in the courts and improve the clerkship experience for thousands of clerks each year.

If you’re a law clerk and your judge is mistreating you -- or you’ve been terminated or retaliated against -- here’s some advice.

It’s time for a reckoning.

Too few organizations focus on diversifying clerkship applicants, even though the lack of diversity among clerks has enormous implications for diversity in the legal profession generally.

Risk-taking is necessary to implement widescale change.

Many students know little about the work environment they’re entering when they take on this particularly consequential first legal job.

Aliza Shatzman, president and founder of The Legal Accountability Project, a nonprofit aimed at ensuring that law clerks have positive clerkship experiences, continues her discussion of her work in judicial accountability.

Aliza Shatzman, president and founder of The Legal Accountability Project, a nonprofit aimed at ensuring that law clerks have positive clerkship experiences, discusses her work in judicial accountability.