The Legal Accountability Project
@thelap
First + only 501c3 nonprofit working full time to ensure that judicial law clerks have positive clerkship experiences, while extending support + resources to those who do not
Judge Ross is just the latest example of the most hypocritical double standard: judges hold others accountable for misconduct but are never held accountable themselves. Failing to act sends a disturbing message: accountability is optional for the powerful. @alizashatzman.bsky.social @slate.com
“When judges are never held accountable for misconduct, it’s unsurprising the behavior persists, unabated, in the courts.” @alizashatzman.bsky.social LAP statement on federal judge who received mere private reprimand for gross misconduct. www.legalaccountabilityproject.org/press-releas...
LAP’s @alizashatzman.bsky.social visited Yale Law yesterday to offer ACS + FGP members her candid take on clerking
Today! LAP’s @alizashatzman.bsky.social at Yale Law School
Today! LAP’s @alizashatzman.bsky.social at Illinois Law
thephiladelphiacitizen.org/democrats-wo... LAP’s President + Founder @alizashatzman.bsky.social in @thephilacitizen.bsky.social on the significance of Tuesday’s Pennsylvania Supreme Court retention victories
“Even the federal judiciary's own climate survey revealed at least 106 law clerks were mistreated in 2023 — meaning as many as 106 judges committed actionable misconduct that year — yet just 3 clerks filed complaints in 2023.” @alizashatzman.bsky.social in GovTrack 👇 www.govtrack.us/posts/540/20...
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✨TODAY at Stanford Law: LAP’s President and Founder @alizashatzman.bsky.social joins Stanford ACS for a conversation abt #transparency + #accountability in judicial #clerkships + the #judiciary. 🔥
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✨ TODAY: LAP’s @alizashatzman.bsky.social at Emory Law 💥
Georgetown Law students: Join LAP’s Founder @alizashatzman.bsky.social , Professor Lisa Heinzerling, + ACS this Thursday for A Conversation on Clerking and Judicial Accountability!
📣📣 Yale Law students: you can access LAP’s Database FOR FREE! 🙏Thanks to a generous donation, the next 77 YLS students who register can access the platform FREE OF CHARGE! 👨💻 Register today for the *real deal* on clerking.
🏆 Congratulations 🎉 to LAP’s President and Founder, @alizashatzman.bsky.social , recognized on Ms. JD Limitless List 🌟 as an early career attorney driving change, advancing gender equity, + empowering women in law! ✨
🙏THANK YOU to LAP’s fall interns, Evelyn Letona-Robles (Yale ‘25), Karan Kuppa-Apte (Bates ‘27), Cole Wassiliew (Hamilton ‘26), + Max Miller (Washington University ‘26)! LAP is grateful for their hard work + commitment to ensuring a better, fairer clerkship system, judiciary, + legal profession.
LAP’s bold, innovative, + common sense “right now” solutions are disrupting the judiciary + legal academia, to the benefit of thousands of law students, law clerks, + society generally. We can do more if we raise more. Support our critical work on Giving Tuesday!
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👋 What is The Legal Accountability Project (LAP)? LAP is the first + only nonprofit working full time to ensure that judicial law clerks ⚖️ have positive experiences, while extending support + resources to those who don’t. We run the nation’s largest Clerkships Database (“Glassdoor for Judges”)!