It’s unsurprising that appalling abuse persists, unabated, in the federal judiciary, considering the lack of guardrails to prevent it, Aliza Shatzman told NPR’s Carrie Johnson following Alaska federal judge Joshua Kindred’s resignation.

Sweeping reform and real accountability are desperately needed, Aliza Shatzman told The New York Times, in the wake of former Alaska federal judge Joshua Kindred’s resignation amid sexual harassment allegations.

We should tell the truth about judicial clerkships: they are not an unadulterated good. Yet too many in the legal profession will continue to frame them as all unicorns ​​and fairy dust - covering up a darker side of clerking, perpetuating problematic judiciary behavior, and isolating mistreated clerks.

“The judiciary needs some more people to poke at it,” Aliza Shatzman told NPR’s Carrie Johnson. “There are far too many judges who are mistreating their clerks, and we need to hold them accountable.”

This “boycott” of Columbia clerks is a public statement about what judges have been doing privately all along. Aliza Shatzman wrote about the federal judiciary's inequitable and opaque hiring practices. These 13 judges' "boycott" is nothing new: judges have been prioritizing and deprioritizing law schools and other applicant characteristics for as long as they've hired clerks.

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman spoke with NPR about ineffective federal judiciary workplace policies and dispute resolution mechanisms, and what needs to change to ensure both safe work environments for law clerks and accountability for judges who mistreat them.

On April 8, 2024, judicial clerkship hiring and advising changed forever. The Legal Accountability Project launched our Centralized Clerkships Database, an unprecedented step to ensure transparency, accountability, and equity in judicial clerkships: one only a nimble third party could take. We are the only source of candid clerkship information for students — whether their law schools maintain robust clerkship resources or not.

“You give up a lot” to work for the federal judiciary. But you shouldn’t have to give up your civil rights, Aliza Shatzman writes in Balls and Strikes.

Aliza Shatzman spoke with Reuters for our first press hit since the official launch of LAP’s first-of-its-kind Centralized Clerkships Database, an unprecedented step to ensure transparency, accountability, and equity in judicial clerkships.

Aliza Shatzman spoke with Business Insider about the launch of LAP’s first-of-its-kind Centralized Clerkships Database, an unprecedented step to ensure transparency, accountability, and equity in judicial clerkships.

Law clerks don’t quit when things are going well.

Law clerks rarely quit. But maybe more should, considering the challenges many clerks face, Aliza Shatzman argues in Above the Law

“We are the positive movement” in the judiciary since #MeToo, LAP’s President and Founder told The Washington Post.

Aliza and LAP board member Judge Douglas Nazarian spoke with The Washington Post about LAP’s upcoming Clerkships Database launch.

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman spoke with Bloomberg Law about our upcoming Clerkships Database launch. This is the best chance in a generation to truly ensure transparency, equity, and accountability in judicial clerkships and the judiciary.

The Legal Accountability Project’s new initiative, the LAP Pledge, signals judiciary support for the transparency and diversity principles that motivate LAP’s Clerkships Database and answers the question, “What do judges think of LAP’s Database?”

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman and LAP board member Judge Douglas Nazarian spoke with Law360’s Courtney Buble about the LAP Pledge and the upcoming launch of LAP’s Clerkships Database.

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman and LAP board member Judge Douglas Nazarian spoke with Bloomberg Law about the LAP Pledge, our new initiative to signal judiciary support for LAP’s Clerkships Database.

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman offers advice for law clerks - from someone who’s actually been there.

In the Columbia Law Review, LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman discusses the clerkships “whisper network”: the secretive, fear-infused method of information-sharing. Information about judges who mistreat their clerks is often not shared by those who possess it, including law school professors, deans, clerkship directors, and former clerks, with those who need it—students. Aliza then proposes a solution to correct this lack of transparency: LAP’s Centralized Clerkships Database, which democratizes information about judges.

Law clerks and federal public defenders have no legal recourse when they are mistreated by the most powerful members of the judiciary. One former public defender is suing to change that for more than 31,000 federal judiciary employees.

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman discusses Strickland v. U.S., the case involving a former public defender suing judiciary officials right now. Strickland raises constitutional claims because the judiciary is exempt from Title VII of the CRA. She also argues that the Employee Dispute Resolution (EDR) Plan lacks due process.

This article discusses some of the many procedural inequities and injustices in the EDR Plan and suggests urgent changes. The federal judiciary could revise the EDR Plan to make it more complainant-friendly right now.

Strickland's case could finally force a #MeToo reckoning in the federal judiciary.

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman argues that framing clerkship hiring as a question of “fit” excludes large swaths of the applicant pool. It’s time to expand our idea of what a law clerk “should” look like.