The Legal Accountability Project

💡Why do #clerkship applicants still clerk for abusive judges?❓ It’s a question I’ve spent the past 3+ years trying not just to answer, but to *solve,* crafting innovative third party solutions and traveling 🚗 the country🏙️ to educate law students about the hazards of an unregulated #judiciary and the importance of being mindful of *who you clerk for.* ✨A year into The Legal Accountability Project’s award-winning Clerkships Database (“Glassdoor for Judges”) existence, it comes down to a few things: ☀️ Access: despite LAP’s best efforts to spread the word, not every #clerkship applicant knows about - let alone knows why they need to subscribe to - LAP’s Clerkships Database. We rely on our followers and supporters to help spread the word! ☀️ Options: Even after reading negative reviews in LAP’s Database, some applicants will feel so desperate to clerk that they’ll accept ANY clerkship. And some haven’t heard me discuss the dangers⚠️ of this attitude. 🗣️ The mistreated clerks I speak with OVERWHELMINGLY say if they knew how bad it would be, they would NOT have accepted the #clerkship. ❗️ ☀️ “I can handle it” / “It won’t happen to me” : I know that, even after hearing me speak 🗣️, some applicants still harbor this attitude. My advice, based on doing this work full time for 3 years? Listen to the reviews in LAP’s Database. Mistreated clerks took time to bravely warn you about abusive judges and bad managers, perhaps sharing their negative experiences for the first time. ❗️Heed their warnings (and mine)! ✨ As LAP celebrates the 1 year anniversary 🎉 of our Clerkships Database, it’s as good a time as any to subscribe TODAY for the *real deal* on clerking. 📣 LAP’s Database is the *only* source of candid #clerkship info in the U.S., providing thousands of applicants with insights their #lawschools either don’t have or won’t share. #clerkships #courts #judiciary #judicialaccountability #transparency #innovation #legaltech

The countdown is on! In just nine days, we will gather at the stunning Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco for the Limitless Awards & Gala.  Join us on April 24, 2025, for a night filled with inspiration, philanthropy, and celebration. This year’s Limitless Leadership Award Honorees are a true testament to excellence—Juliette Pryor, Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary of Lowe's Companies, Inc., Samantha Wellington, Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel, and Secretary of eBay, Danielle Mikaelian, third-year student at Harvard Law School, and The Legal Accountability Project. We will also be hearing special remarks from Judge Lucy Koh,  U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, enjoying an unforgettable performance by Paula Boggs and the Paula Boggs Band, and participating in a silent auction to support scholarship opportunities. You will not want to miss this incredible evening! Get your tickets, purchase a table, or gift a ticket to uplift a law student: https://lnkd.in/egGHmbnm Many thanks to our Platinum Sponsor Freshfields and our Strategic Advisors Zabrina Jenkins and Samantha Villanueva-Meyer for making this event possible. 

The Limitless Awards & Gala are coming up, and we are so excited to be joined by Paula Boggs and the Paula Boggs band.    Paula Boggs Band blends jazz and Americana. The band has released a steady stream of music since 2010 and toured throughout the United States and Canada. The band's 4th studio album, "Janus," produced and engineered by Grammy-winning Tucker Martine, and featuring Carolina Chocolate Drops co-founder Dom Flemons, released in 2022. Paula Boggs Band released the album "Paula Boggs Band Live at Sweetwater Music Hall" in August 2024 and a 5th studio album, produced and mixed by Martine, releases in 2025. The latest album includes "traditional folk" but also showcases Gregorian chant and banjo-driven triphop.    We are also excited to hear from our Limitless Leadership Award Honorees, Juliette Pryor, Samantha Wellington, Danielle Mikaelian, and The Legal Accountability Project, and from Judge Lucy Koh, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.    We hope you will join us on April 24, 2025 at the iconic Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco to hear from these incredible women leaders.     Secure your tickets, purchase a table, or donate a ticket to empower a law student: https://lnkd.in/egGHmbnm    Thank you to our Platinum Sponsor Freshfields and our Strategic Advisors Zabrina Jenkins and Samantha Villanueva-Meyer. 

One of our favorite founders to watch Aliza Shatzman hung out with Megan Senese on the new podcast #SoMuchToSay. What happens when two scrappy women come together? We don't know yet... Check out the episode and let them know what you think! It's in our never-ending queue of podcast episodes.

Clerkships are supposed to be prestigious, mentorship-driven, and career-changing. But what happens if your clerkship experience is hardly that? What happens if your experience involves gender discrimination, harassment, and retaliation? This was Aliza Shatzman's journey, which she shared in our latest episode of "So Much to Say: A Legal Podcast for People." Aliza is the founder of The Legal Accountability Project. After experiencing harassment and retaliation firsthand from the judge that she clerked for, she decided to speak up for herself and now the countless clerks who suffer in silence. She has testified before Congress and launched her nonprofit organization to change the landscape of judicial clerkships. If you’ve ever clerked, mentored a law student, or been told a clerkship is THE ticket to success, you need to listen to this episode. Listen here: https://bit.ly/4ibophd

🌅 It’s a new day in judicial #clerkship hiring and the #judiciary. ☀️ 🔥 One year ago this week, The Legal Accountability Project launched 🚀 our Centralized Clerkships Database (“Glassdoor for Judges”) 🧑⚖️, upending 🌪️ the #clerkship system and changing the face of clerkship hiring. ⚡️ Students can finally answer the ❓ question, “How do you get information about judges?” with something other than a shrug 🤷♀️, a blank stare 😬, or “I don’t.” 🤐🤫 Students applying for #clerkships this year may not remember what a “black box 📦 “ clerkship hiring was just a few years ago. 💪 Fortunately, gone are the days when applicants applied broadly and indiscriminately to as many as 100 judges about whose management style and chambers culture they knew nothing, “applied blind” 🫣 and hoped 🤞 for the best. 🌟 In its place, something better and more #accountable - clerkship #transparency. A clearinghouse where law clerks review their powerful bosses *as managers.* ✨ Some judges will benefit ⭐️ from this new era of #clerkship hiring. Others - the ones who are poor managers or who mistreat their clerks - will not. 🔥 LAP has raised the bar on workplace civility throughout the #judiciary. ⚡️ Students (and recent grads): what are you waiting for? 💥 Register today for the *real deal* on clerking. ‼️ Frankly, given what LAP knows about judges, you’d have to be a masochist to be applying for #clerkships and NOT subscribe to LAP’s Database. #clerkships #courts #judiciary #judicialaccountability #transparency #innovation #legaltech

There are only a few short weeks until the Limitless Awards & Gala, and we cannot wait to celebrate with you!    We hope to see you on April 24, 2025 at the iconic Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco for an evening of inspiration and philanthropy.    Join us to hear remarks from our Limitless Leadership Award Honorees: Juliette Pryor, Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary of Lowe's Companies, Inc., Samantha Wellington, Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel, and Secretary of eBay, Danielle Mikaelian, third-year student at Harvard Law School, and The Legal Accountability Project.    We will also hear special remarks from Judge Lucy Koh, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, see a performance from the incredible Paula Boggs and the Paula Boggs Band, and participate in a silent auction to benefit our scholarship programs.     Secure your tickets, purchase a table, or donate a ticket to empower a law student: https://lnkd.in/egGHmbnm    Thank you to our Platinum Sponsor Freshfields and our Strategic Advisors Zabrina Jenkins and Samantha Villanueva-Meyer. 

⛳️ It’s Masters Week🏌️♀️ at Augusta National 🍑 , which probably only means something to golfers. 🏌️ But it’s also April 🌺 which, for me growing up, meant I’d be at the golf ⛳️ course every day. 🐦 The sounds of birds chirping early in the morning ☀️ as the weather turned warmer still evoke fond memories of spring golf season. ⛳️ 💪The skills I honed through competitive golf ⛳️ - tenacity, persistence, precision, hard work, dedication, the importance of practice and honing my craft, teamwork 🤝, and leadership👊 - are all skills I rely on every day as the President and Founder of The Legal Accountability Project. ⚖️ 🏌️♀️And while the players and competitors have changed, and the hazards ‼️ to avoid may be different, the shots I take are just as strategic, and the victories are just as rewarding. 🏆 #teamwork #leadership #athletics #clerkships #courts

✨ One year ago, #clerkship hiring changed forever. The Legal Accountability Project launched 🚀 our Centralized Clerkships Database (AKA “Glassdoor for Judges”), 🎉 upending the #clerkship system. 💪 🌟Since then, LAP has: ✅Served nearly 2000 law students and recent graduates, and ✅Compiled over 1500 candid #clerkship surveys about 1,000+ federal and state judges. ‼️ It’s the largest independent repository of #clerkship info in the U.S. This is my vision for clerkship #transparency and #accountability, realized. 🔥LAP’s award-winning 🏆 Database contains the most important info applicants need to know before clerking: insights your #lawschool either doesn’t have or won’t share with you. 👀 🗣️Many people thought it couldn’t be done. A few thought it shouldn’t be done. 💪 But where there’s a will, there’s a way. And we persevered, despite the setbacks, despite the naysayers. 🗣️Because I knew a year ago - and am even more confident today - that LAP is the solution to historically intractable problems in judicial #clerkships and the #judiciary. 🌟 ✨Students and recent grads applying for #clerkships: what are you waiting for? Register today for the *real deal* on clerking! #clerkships #courts #judiciary #judicialaccountability #transparency #legaltech #innovation

✨ One year ago, #clerkship hiring changed forever. The Legal Accountability Project launched 🚀 our Centralized Clerkships Database (AKA “Glassdoor for Judges”), 🎉 upending the #clerkship system. 💪 🌟Since then, LAP has: ✅Served nearly 2000 law students and recent graduates, and ✅Compiled over 1500 candid #clerkship surveys about 1,000+ federal and state judges. ‼️ It’s the largest independent repository of #clerkship info in the U.S. This is my vision for clerkship #transparency and #accountability, realized. 🔥LAP’s award-winning 🏆 Database contains the most important info applicants need to know before clerking: insights your #lawschool either doesn’t have or won’t share with you. 👀 🗣️Many people thought it couldn’t be done. A few thought it shouldn’t be done. 💪 But where there’s a will, there’s a way. And we persevered, despite the setbacks, despite the naysayers. 🗣️Because I knew a year ago - and am even more confident today - that LAP is the solution to historically intractable problems in judicial #clerkships and the #judiciary. 🌟 ✨Students and recent grads applying for #clerkships: what are you waiting for? Register today for the *real deal* on clerking! #clerkships #courts #judiciary #judicialaccountability #transparency #legaltech #innovation