Courts called dangerous workplaces ... for clerks

 

Bloomberg Law has Judicial Law Clerk Harassment Is Focus of New Non-Profit Group

• Two recent graduates of Washington University School of Law have launched a new nonprofit seeking to support judicial clerks, amid concerns about misconduct by lifetime-appointed judges.
• The Legal Accountability Project is the brainchild of Aliza Shatzman and Matthew Goodman, who both graduated law school in 2019.
• Among its first projects will be a clerkship reporting database, in which former clerks can detail their positive and negative experiences within the judiciary.
• Some law schools already have such databases, but the project intends to expand the opportunity beyond schools “with the institutional memory about misbehaving judges,” according to the project’s website.