The Clerkships Whisper Network

Law students - regardless of their law school's ranking and financial resources - overwhelmingly lack transparent information about judicial clerkships.

As Aliza explains in Above the Law, the “clerkships whisper network” is the backdoor, secretive, fear-infused method of partial information sharing, whereby clerks "whisper" about mistreatment because they are fearful. Law schools perpetuate this problematic whisper network through their incomplete information-sharing and overly positive, rather than realistic, clerkship messaging.

It’s time for everyone in the legal profession to acknowledge some uncomfortable truths, recognize their roles in perpetuating problematic behaviors, and commit to achieving solutions.