Post-Clerkship Survey

If you thought about clerking when you were in law school, you might remember your law school instructing you to “do your research” about judges before applying. Until now, this research has been challenging for students, considering how little information about judges is available and how selectively it is typically shared.

LAP’s major initiative this year is a Centralized Clerkships Database that democratizes information about judges as managers, chambers culture, and clerkship experiences, thereby ensuring clerkship applicants have as much information about as many judges as possible before making the important career decision about clerking.

The Clerkships Database is populated with post-clerkship survey responses by former law clerks from courthouses across the country. This initiative vastly increases the breadth and candor of information available to students considering clerkships, as well as to clerkship advisors assisting students with their applications.

LAP's post-clerkship was generated based on feedback from clerkship directors and deans, judges, survey experts, and our "customers" - law students and law clerks - based on what students reported they would like to know before clerking and what clerks report they wish they had known before clerking. The survey asks questions in five categories:

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Judge/Court Background Information
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Clerkship Interview Experience
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Work/Life Balance and Fit
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Clerkship Experience
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Optional Demographic Information on Clerk Respondent

Visit survey.legalaccountabilityproject.org to submit a post-clerkship survey and share your clerkship experience with LAP. Your survey response will be anonymous unless you indicate otherwise. If you completed multiple clerkships, you will be prompted to complete a second (or third) survey upon submission. Using your personal email rather than work email is preferable. Questions about the survey can be directed to Aliza Shatzman at Aliza.Shatzman@legalaccountabilityproject.org.

The Legal Accountability Project demonstrates the multi-step process for completing our post-clerkship survey, including various security features. LAP encourages everyone who completed a post-graduate judicial clerkship to visit survey.legalaccountabilityproject.org to share their clerkship experience.

The Legal Accountability Project demonstrates 3 sample post-clerkship surveys, highlighting the categories of information student database users can expect to find.