LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman spoke with Reuters about LAP’s first judicial misconduct complaint, filed against Second Circuit Judge Sarah Merriam.

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman spoke with NPR’s Carrie Johnson about LAP’s first judicial misconduct complaint, filed against Second Circuit Judge Sarah Merriam.

Given how many judges mistreat their clerks, choosing not to pay $50 to subscribe to LAP's Clerkships Database to inform yourself before clerking is basically consigning yourself to abuse, LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman argues in Above the Law.

What do you call it when law schools withhold negative information about judges from students and try to prevent them from accessing candid clerkship information beyond the school’s approved resources? Lying. 

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court election is the most important 2025 election no one outside Pennsylvania is talking about. Yet its outcome will have far-reaching implications for future elections, and for democracy itself.

The Legal Accountability Project created accountability through transparency: there's nothing imperious judges hate more than negative feedback they cannot see, dispute, or silence clerks from sharing through threats of retaliation, Aliza Shatzman writes in GovTrack.

Refusing to implement meaningful workplace reforms is part of a concerted effort by the federal judiciary to maintain the broken status quo and shield abusive judges from accountability, Aliza Shatzman argues in Above the Law.

We cannot allow the federal judiciary to quietly reassign mistreated law clerks year after year while shielding judges from accountability and failing to solve systemic problems that necessitate clerk reassignments, Aliza Shatzman argues in Above the Law.

So, you want to clerk—how will you avoid judges who harass their clerks? LAP’s Clerkships Database is the answer, Aliza Shatzman writes in Above the Law.

The solutions to judicial lawlessness exist, if we’re tenacious enough to fight for them, LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman argues in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

LAP’s Clerkships Database is a “right now” solution: we’re not waiting on anyone to make the change we know is necessary, Aliza Shatzman argues in Above the Law as the second clerkship hiring cycle where applicants benefit from LAP’s Database, commences.

Congress must close the disturbing legal loophole in the judicial complaint process that allows federal judges to evade accountability for misconduct by stepping down, Aliza Shatzman argues in Bloomberg Law.

Congress cannot credibly espouse a commitment to the rule of law while refusing to ensure judges are subject to the law, Aliza Shatzman argues in Courier News.

There’s nothing more antithetical to the rule of law than the fact that judges are not subject to the laws they interpret.

This is the biggest judicial accountability story since Joshua Kindred resigned less than a year ago, but the federal courts would prefer you not know about it.

You'd be foolish to argue against transparency, just like you'd be foolish to bet against LAP. As LAP prepares to celebrate the one-year anniversary of our Clerkships Database launch, Aliza Shatzman reflects on how far LAP has come, and the incredible change we've created in such a short time.

The federal judiciary is the most dangerous white-collar workplace in America right now. The toxic combination of pervasive harassment and abusive conduct; lack of outside, impartial oversight; and dearth of effective reporting mechanisms create an outrageous lack of accountability.

Yale Law School - no stranger to clerkship controversies - has stooped to new lows in its quest to funnel as many students as possible into judicial clerkships, with little regard for the quality of the work environment, prohibiting student organizations from using their funds to subscribe to LAP’s Clerkships Database on behalf of members.

Just 9% of the 78 EDR matters initiated by federal court employees from 2021-23 were initiated by term law clerks, according to the AO's 2023 Workplace Report. That’s around 7 complaints over a 2-year period, or fewer than 5 misconduct complaints per year. This negligible number of complaints suggests limited use of the federal judiciary’s internal dispute resolution process and little progress toward fostering a culture of reporting.

Some judges apparently believe they should be exempt from criticism and public scrutiny — in addition to being exempt from Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other anti-discrimination laws, and from oversight and accountability. In fact, we should criticize the judiciary: it’s how we hold the most powerful and least accountable institution, accountable for ethical lapses and misconduct.