Aliza Shatzman

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.

It’s a short list. 

It’s on all of us in the legal profession to be part of the solution.

Right now, judges are above the laws they enforce. There's a solution: the Judiciary Accountability Act must be passed.

The judiciary has done little to train judges as managers, despite the enormous influence judges exert over clerks’ careers.

We should hold judges to the highest ethical standards, not the lowest. This necessitates ensuring that those who interpret our laws are fit to serve.

The messaging around clerkships matters. 

A clerkship should be positive, not just tolerable. No one should willingly endure a taxing clerkship for the prestige.

The latest in the fight against harassment in the courts.

The Legal Accountability Project aims to ensure that as many law clerks as possible have positive clerkship experiences, while extending support and resources to those who do not.

While law schools are currently part of the problem, they can be part of the solution.

Opening up about her clerkship changed her life.