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Law clerks form a largely unseen network of support for the judiciary branch of government. My next guest says clerks lack protection from and the means to redress harassment and discrimination. Sometimes it’s the judges that do the harassing and discriminating. For more, the president and co-founder of the Legal Accountability Project Aliza Shatzman spoke to the Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Interview transcript:
Tom Temin: Ms. Schatzman, good to have you on.
Aliza Shatzman: Thanks for having me on the show.
Tom Temin: And you have formed the Legal Accountability Project. And we’ll get into what its aims are. But tell us about the job of law clerk. Is this something that people only do temporarily while they’re students? Or can it be a career? What is the nature of that particular job?
Aliza Shatzman: Sure. So law clerks are typically fresh out of law school. So this is their first legal job. Increasingly, some federal judges hire folks with one or two years work experience, but it’s important to underscore these are very young attorneys at the start of their careers. And for federal employees, so [assistant U.S. attorneys], trial attorneys, other folks who appear before federal judges, if you look up at the dais, the young attorneys flanking the judge, those are law clerks. So law clerks’ tasks vary from chambers to chambers....
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