Houston Law Students Can Access LAP’s Database for Free, Thanks to A Generous Donation

Saturday, April 19, 2025

For Immediate Release

Contact: Aliza Shatzman, 267-481-2095, aliza.shatzman@legalaccountabilityproject.org

Houston Law Students Can Access LAP’s Database for Free, Thanks to A Generous Donation

Thanks to a generous donation by Houston Law Professor, and LAP Advisory Board Member, Renee Knake Jefferson, the next 50 Houston Law students who subscribe to LAP’s Clerkships Database can access the platform for free this year. 

Houston Law students can register for Database access at survey.legalaccountabilityproject.org to access candid clerkship information, beyond what their law school provides, right now. The clerkship application process is well underway: LAP is proud to be a trusted, third-party resource for thousands of clerkship applicants who use our platform to research judges and judicial clerkship opportunities. 

LAP is grateful that several donors over the past few months have stepped forward to cover Clerkships Database costs for students. This is our seventh such donation: donors have also generously covered the Database subscription cost for Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Vanderbilt, NYU, and Chicago Law students. 

We encourage more donors from more law schools to donate on behalf of students, thereby ensuring broad access to this critical information. Even as LAP celebrates the one-year anniversary of our Clerkships Database launch this month, we know that too many clerkship applicants still lack access to unbiased perspectives on clerking. As LAP’s work underscores, it has never been more important to ensure that all clerkship applicants can identify positive work environments and avoid abusive judges.