The ABA Journal has a great piece by AUSA Vanessa Kubota A Law Clerk's Transition: From umpire’s apprentice to fighter in the ring, in which she recounts some lessons from her clerkship at the Arizona Court of Appeals:
I applied for—and landed—a two-year appellate clerkship at Division One of the Arizona Court of Appeals—a popular choice among law clerk applicants for its uncommon practice of allowing its clerks to sit (and even chime) in on the secret deliberations of the panel. These were opportunities for us clerks to hone our oral advocacy skills.She also notes that her judge, the Hon. David Weinzweig, will be releasing his book Zen in the Art of Legal Writing "soon."