Demystifying Judicial Clerkships (Aliza Shatzman) (Ep. 418)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Nathan are joined by Aliza Shatzman, founder of the Legal Accountability Project. Aliza describes the project’s mission to bring greater transparency to judicial clerkships and to promote positive clerkship experiences. She and the guys discuss why law schools sometimes obscure the truth about judicial clerkships, how the Legal Accountability Project will democratize information regarding clerkships, and what future law students can do now to prepare for clerking.
You can find Aliza on LinkedIn and Twitter @AlizaShatzman. Follow the Legal Accountability Project on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @The_LAP_
1:12 - The Legal Accountability Project - Special guest Aliza Shatzman recounts how the harassment and discrimination she faced as a judicial clerk led her to create the Legal Accountability Project. She advocates greater transparency and workplace protections for judicial clerkships. Read Aliza’s testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
11:51 - Clerkships Database - Aliza introduces the Legal Accountability Project’s Clerkships Database, which aims to democratize information about judges and serves as a “Yelp for clerkships.” Aliza describes how she’s working to gain the support of judges and law schools.
36:19 - Advice for Future Law Students - Aliza offers advice to future law students who may want to pursue judicial clerkships: Start networking with judges and professors early, apply broadly, and don’t assume that your law school’s guidance is sound. Aliza also explains why federal clerkships aren’t always better than state clerkships.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 418 of the Thinking Elsat Podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Ben Olson. |
| 0:12.0 | With me is Nathan Fox. We're the co-founder of Elsat Podcast, I'm Ben Olson. With me is Nathan Fox. |
| 0:13.6 | We're the co-founders of Elsat Demon.com |
| 0:16.0 | and the Elsad Demon Daily Podcast. |
| 0:18.7 | You can be Elsat Famous, share news and ask questions |
| 0:21.4 | on our website thinking Elsat.com. |
| 0:24.8 | Next Thursday, September 14th at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern. |
| 0:29.8 | Nathan is going to be teaching his regular class, |
| 0:32.2 | but it will be free and available to anyone with a demon account. |
| 0:36.0 | You can sign up for that at Elsat.link. |
| 0:39.0 | Free. I think Nathan, you're just going to cover all three sections right? |
| 0:43.0 | Same thing I do in my normal Thursday class. |
| 0:45.5 | We do one logic game, one reading comp passage, |
| 0:49.0 | handful of logical reasoning questions. |
| 0:51.0 | The whole goal is to show students how easy that |
| 0:54.5 | Elsat really is. So I hope people will come and join. Yeah again you can sign up for |
| 0:59.4 | that at Elsat.link forward slash free. Last week on August 30th, the August 2023 scores were released. |
| 1:07.6 | We just want to know how you did, so again, let us know at thinkingelset.com. Today we have special guest, Eliza Schatzman. |
| 1:16.4 | Thanks for joining us, Eliza. Are you joining us from Washington, D.C? |
| 1:20.8 | Yes, I am. Okay, well, yeah, I'm in Vienna, so not too far from you. You are an |
| 1:26.9 | attorney, an advocate based in Washington, D.C. who writes and speaks about |
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