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Rutgers Law School students: Learn about the resources LAP provides to enhance your #clerkship search and how you can access #transparent information right now! 👇

Law Students: Vote with your feet! Since The Legal Accountability Project launched our Clerkships Database a month ago, 900+ students have registered for Clerkships Database access. (❗) Registrants represent many of the nation's 100+ #lawschools. And several Law Reviews have subscribed on behalf of their 2L e-boards. *️⃣Most of the Top 14 law schools have at least 30 students registered. These are students who sought out this information on their own and paid $20 to supplement their #clerkship searches. At least 5 schools have over 50 students registered, and 1 has over 120! *️⃣Since LAP launched this initiative, we’ve intended to work with #lawschools, who’d pay to subscribe on behalf of all their students. In opting to open up Database access to individual subscribers, we’ve signaled that you don’t need to wait for your law school to give you the info you need. You can access it yourself! *️⃣Ultimately, LAP still intends to work with #lawschools to make some changes. Schools should publicly signal their commitment to clerkship #transparency, #equity, and #accountability by working with LAP to improve #clerkship resource allocation, messaging, and advising. LAP has made it easy for schools: compiling information they’ve been historically hesitant to collect and share with applicants. Right now, LAP is following up with #lawschools to share the number of their students already registered for Database access. Students, here’s how YOU can help: 1️⃣Register for Clerkship Database access. Then, spread the word to your friends and classmates, and encourage them to do the same. 2️⃣Student leaders & Law Journal Editors: LAP has been signing up law reviews and student organizations as bulk subscribers at a reduced rate. 3️⃣ Advocate! Circulate a student petition or sign-on letter, draft a student government resolution, and meet with your administration to explain why LAP’s Database would be valuable to you and your peers right now. YOU are the customers at your school. You deserve better, and you should demand it from your administration. LAP is empowering every student to be not only an informed consumer of #clerkship information, but also an empowered citizen, equipped to demand the change you want to see. #clerkships #courts #judiciary #transparency #lawschools

Next stop on The Legal Accountability Project's law school roadshow? Yale Law School! On Tuesday 10/1, I look forward to visiting YLS to speak with YLW+ and Title IX Student Advocates. This will be LAP's third visit (fourth event) at Yale Law! 🗣️At a school where judicial #clerkships are top of mind for many students, nothing is more important than ensuring students are properly informed about the work environments they're entering, so they can make informed decisions about their careers. 🗣️No one should accept a "challenging" clerkship for the prestige - let alone unwittingly enter an unsafe work environment because they lack information about judges. Fortunately, this year, thanks to LAP's Clerkships Database, containing 1,300+ candid reviews about 900+ federal and state judges, no one has to! 🗣️No student - regardless of their school's ranking, resources, or #clerkship advising - had a true understanding of judicial work environments, chambers culture, or judges as managers--until now! And LAP's programming ensures students know to ask the right questions - of themselves and others - before #clerking; and also understand the importance of being mindful of who they clerk for, challenges they might face in a clerkship, and resources available to them. 🗣️And, LAP empowers students to demand better for themselves and their peers. You don’t need to wait on your school to improve #clerkship advising: you can seek out LAP’s candid clerkship info yourself! ✨I look forward to meeting many more students on the road this fall! Together, we have upended the #clerkship system, to the benefit of law students, law schools, the #judiciary, and the legal profession generally. #clerkships #courts #judiciary #lawschools #lawschoolroadshow #transparency

Yale Law School students: on Tuesday 10/1, learn how LAP has transformed the #clerkship system for you and your peers, and how YOU can get candid clerkship information *right now*! #clerking #courts #lawschools #lawschoolroadshow

I am en route to Notre Dame Law School! Tomorrow, I look forward to joining LAP friend Judge Stephen Dillard to discuss one of my favorite topics - promoting transparency in judicial #clerkships - with NDLS ACS and Federalist Society. I’m not sure whether The Legal Accountability Project’s work is best characterized as nonpartisan or bipartisan. We’re a nonpartisan nonprofit that attracts support and interest from a bipartisan swath of the #legalprofession (and beyond). LAP is happy to work with anyone who shares our commitment to promoting #transparency, #accountability, and #diversity in judicial #clerkships. A few things I’ve observed from speaking with law students (and #lawschools) across the ideological spectrum: 1️⃣No law student - regardless of their existing formal networks - has enough information about judges as managers, chambers culture, and #clerkship experiences to make an informed clerkship decision right now. Existing organizations may help students *obtain* clerkships, but that means little if you lack an understanding of the work environment you’re entering. 2️⃣At law schools with an ideological leaning (or where the faculty trends ideologically liberal or conservative), law schools’ pipelines to judges/clerkships are ideologically skewed as well. Yet there are many reasons why a liberal student would attend a conservative institution, or vice versa - and some students are just interested in clerking for a judge with ideologically divergent views. Those students deserve robust info, too, and they often struggle to access it through #lawschool networks. 3️⃣Neither political party has a monopoly on ensuring #judicialaccountability or safe work environments for law clerks. Both progressive and conservative judicial  appointees mistreat clerks. Both progressive and conservative clerks are mistreated by the most powerful members of the #legalprofession, with limited recourse. And while these issues should garner bipartisan support, there has historically been bipartisan unwillingness to address them. LAP is changing that. I look forward to sharing LAP’s work with the NDLS community tomorrow! Anyone interested in transparency, accountability, or the #judiciary will enjoy this conversation! #clerkships #courts #judiciary #transparency #lawschools

Yale Law School students: We look forward to meeting many of you TOMORROW to discuss LAP's transformative clerkship #transparency work. Aliza Shatzman will share how LAP's resources are improving the #clerkship system for you and your peers, and how YOU can get involved with LAP's clerkship transparency movement right now!

En route to Yale Law School! Tomorrow, I’ll speak with YLW+ and Title IX Student Advocates about The Legal Accountability Project’s transformative #clerkship transparency work! And, I look forward to meeting LAP intern Evelyn Letona-Robles (Yale University ‘25) in real life! We’ll discuss the right questions to ask (of yourself and others) before #clerking; challenges clerks might face and resources available; the importance of being mindful of who you clerk for; and, of course, how to access the candid info you need before applying! At a #lawschool where #clerkships are top of mind for many, nothing is more important than empowering students to be informed and discerning consumers of clerkship opportunities. LAP events also inspire broader student #advocacy, encouraging students to demand better for themselves and their peers than the broken status quo. Beyond that, I hope that this year, no law student will accept a “challenging” clerkship for the prestige, nor unwittingly enter an unsafe work environment because they lack information about judges, as I did. Thanks to LAP’s Centralized Clerkships Database, no one will have to! We *can* accomplish this ambitious goal *this year,* and it starts with conversations like these. #clerkships #courts #judiciary #transparency #lawschools #lawschoolroadshow

The University of Chicago Law School is back at No. 1 on the list of law schools that sent the highest percentage of graduates into federal clerkships, according to new data from the American Bar Association. The Chicago law school sent 25.35% of its 2023 juris doctors into federal judicial clerkships, which are highly sought-after and competitive positions, according to a trove of ABA hiring data released on April 22. The law school claimed the top clerkship spot in both 2020 and 2021, but was pushed to No. 3 in 2022 after it posted a clerkship rate of 20% and was overtaken by Stanford Law School and Yale Law School. Yale Law School was No. 2 in 2023 with 24.11% of its JDs landing federal clerkships, followed by Stanford Law School at 20.77%. The University of Notre Dame Law School was next with 18.18% of graduates in federal clerkships, while the University of Michigan Law School rounded out the top five at 14.01% Subscribe to The Daily Docket: https://reut.rs/3O4K9yr

Attention Law Students and Aspiring Legal Professionals! Don't miss out on LEAP's FREE webinar: Navigating Judicial Externships and Clerkships: A Roadmap to Success in the Legal Field 🗓️ Date: October 15, 2024 ⏰ Time: 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM (PT) 🔗 Register Here: https://bit.ly/4gFg5qm Featuring an incredible panel of speakers: ⚖️ Professor Yan Slavinskiy – Loyola Law School, Los Angeles ⚖️ Professor Amy Levin – Loyola Law School, Los Angeles ⚖️ Ashley Rodriguez – Former 9th Circuit Clerk and JAMS ⚖️ Jannet G. Gomez – 3L at Stanford Law School, MABA Extern, and LEAP Fellow Gain valuable insights into securing and excelling in judicial externships and clerkships. Whether you’re a law student aiming for a clerkship or a pre-law student exploring the field, this webinar offers practical tips and insights to help you succeed. 👉 Don't wait—this is your last chance to register! Tag a friend who shouldn't miss this opportunity! #LEAPfellows #LawSchoolPrep #LawSchoolJourney #FutureLawyer #LegalEducation #PreLaw #LSATPrep #LegalCareer #LawStudentCommunity #LawSchoolBound #FutureLawyers #LawSchool

The University of Chicago Law School is back at number 1 on the list of law schools that sent the highest percentage of graduates into federal clerkships, according to new data from the American Bar Association. The Chicago law school sent 25.35% of its 2023 Juris Doctors into Federal Judicial Clerkships, which are highly sought-after and competitive positions. The law school claimed the top clerkship spot in both 2020 and 2021 but was pushed to No. 3 in 2022 after it posted a clerkship rate of 20%. Yale Law School was number 2 in 2023 with 24.11% of its Juris Doctors landing federal clerkships, followed by Stanford Law School at 20.77%. The University of Notre Dame Law School was next with 18.18% of graduates in federal clerkships, while the University of Michigan Law School rounded out the top five at 14.01%.