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	Law clerk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Those unfamiliar with court operations often incorrectly assume that a law clerk is a court clerk, essentially a secretary for the court.
		The hiring of law clerks is particularly prevalent among federal judges and state appellate judges.
		Most law clerks are recent law school graduates who were at the very top of their class, or who graduated from the most prestigious law schools.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Law_clerk (537 words)

	Summary of the Law Clerk Hiring Plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The law schools will do nothing to facilitate the release of official transcripts and they will discourage faculty members from sending letters of reference or making calls on behalf of law clerk applicants before the day after Labor Day of the third year of law school.
		Law clerk applications from third year students, and letters of reference on their behalf, may not be sent before the day after Labor Day.
		Law schools are strongly encouraged to continue bundling applications (including cover letters, resumes, recommendations, transcripts, and writing samples), so that each applicant’s materials arrive together and all applications from a particular school arrive at the same time.
	www.cadc.uscourts.gov /internet/lawclerk.nsf/Content/SUMMARY?OpenDocument (415 words)

	Law Clerk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A law clerk is a person who assists a judge in researching issues before the court and in writing opinions.
		Most law clerks are recent law school graduates who were near the top of their class, or who graduated from the most prestigious law schools.
		A law clerk is not to be confused with a court clerk, as the latter occupation is essentially that of a secretary for the court.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/111/law-clerk.html (490 words)

	NMBAR \| Summer Law Clerk Program
		Working with law firms and agencies that are committed to the ideal of diversified applicant pools, the Summer Law Clerk Program has been bringing down artificial barriers to employment, producing quality law clerks and diversifying attorney applicants for nearly a generation.
		Law clerks participating in the Program will be expected to participate in the same manner as the employer's other law clerks in any training programs conducted by the employer.
		Law clerks participating in the Program will be evaluated by their employer in the same manner as the employer's other law clerks. In addition, the Selection Committee will conduct exit interviews with the law clerks and their employers to assess the benefits of the Program.
	www.nmbar.org /Content/NavigationMenu/Attorney_Services_Practice_Resources/Summer_Law_Clerk_Program/Summer_Law_Clerk_Program.htm (870 words)

	The National Center for State Courts - Home Page
		Principal Law Clerks to Judges are personally appointed by they judge or judges for whom they work and serve at their pleasure.
		LAW CLERK: Colville Tribal Court, Nespelem, Washington, is seeking two individuals interested in filling the position of Law Clerk from June 1 through August 30, 1998.
		Law clerks for assignment judges learn all aspects of court administration and assist with processing emergent motions.
	www.ncsconline.org /D_KIS/jobdeda/Jobs_LawClerks(16).htm (1813 words)

	Law Clerk Application Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Law clerks may take four personal leave days with pay during their term of service and they will have a bank of twelve sick days.
		Law clerks are generally expected to do research, write memoranda, review draft opinions and assist in preparing preliminary draft opinions.
		Law clerks are not required to be members of the Bar of Connecticut or of any other state.
	www.jud.state.ct.us /external/supapp/lawclerkapps.html (1031 words)

	Drake Law School: Job Postings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A law clerk's typical responsibilities include close review of the record and transcripts from the district court, evaluating conflicting briefs, supplementing the legal research submitted in the briefs, and assisting the judge in accurately synthesizing the facts and the law through preparation of bench memoranda and providing further assistance in opinion preparation.
		Law clerks accept a position with a particular justice but are law clerks for the court as well.
		Primarily, law clerks analyze and research cases on appeal, perform cite checking, and work closely with the justice to whom they are assigned in the preparation of opinions.
	www.law.drake.edu /students/jobListing.aspx?state=Minnesota&week=4/22/2005 (782 words)

	Illinois Attorney General - Description of Law Clerk Program
		Law students wishing to serve as law clerks at any time during the Winter/Spring of 2006 (January through April of 2006) should submit their applications no sooner than September 1, 2005 and no later than December 1, 2005.
		Law students wishing to serve as law clerks at any time during the Summer of 2006 (May through August of 2006) should submit their applications no sooner than January 1, 2006 and no later than March 1, 2006.
		Law students wishing to serve as law clerks at any time during the Fall of 2006 (September through December of 2006) should submit their applications no sooner than May 1, 2006, and no later than July 1, 2006.
	www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov /about/jobs/lawclerk_opps.html (728 words)

	About the Court - Law Clerk Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Federal Court of Appeal and the Federal Court engage 42 law clerks (approximately 12 for the Federal Court of Appeal and 30 for the Federal Court) each year to conduct research on files to be heard by the judges of the Courts.
		The work performed by the law clerks includes preparing legal memoranda on court files prior to the hearing of the case, researching specific legal issues, editing judgments and assisting in the preparation of speeches and papers for presentation by a judge.
		Law clerk applicants may apply to the Federal Court of Appeal, the Federal Court or both in the same application.
	www.fct-cf.gc.ca /about/lawclerk/lawclerk_e.shtml (527 words)

	Law Clerk
		The exact nature of a law clerk's duties is determined by the area of the law their employer specialises in.
		Law clerks working in the area of conveyancing, for example, will prepare legal documents such as transfers of land for the sale, purchase or rental of commercial or residential properties.
		In smaller law firms, law clerks may have a combined role of a law clerk, a receptionist and an 'outside' clerk.
	getaccess.westone.wa.gov.au /careers/profiles/data/OCC102.asp (1104 words)

	Law Clerk Program - 2004-2005
		Law clerks are not assigned to any particular judge but assist all of the Court's 22 judges (plus supernumerary judges) as required.
		For those interested in tax law, clerking at the Tax Court of Canada is a unique opportunity to work with judges who are tax specialists in an open atmosphere.
		Law clerks are generally hired on a determinate basis for a period of 12 consecutive months.
	www.tcc-cci.gc.ca /clerk_e.htm (795 words)

	Law Clerk Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Law clerks perform research, draft documents such as complaints and answers, write briefs or portions of briefs, and perform a myriad of other legal duties.
		Certified clerks in their third year of law school may have the opportunity to give oral arguments before the Nebraska Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals.
		Although the pay, by law firm standards, is low, we compensate for low pay by challenging our law clerks with more and better work than private law firms offer.
	www.ago.state.ne.us /content/law_clerk.html (262 words)

	Career: Law Clerks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Law clerks who work for lawyers are usually doing an internship before they become lawyers.
		Law clerks' duties vary by the type of law office they work in.
		Law clerks who work in patent law firms may search to make sure that inventions have not been patented earlier.
	www.iseek.org /sv/13000.jsp?id=100114 (480 words)

	Judicial Clerkships - Law Clerks and Law Clerk Positions
		• The value to law firms: “Employing former judicial law clerks at a law firm is a fairly reliable means of ensuring a high quality of representation by a firm, especially in sophisticated litigation or transactional practices.
		A law clerk’s exposure to federal trial or appellate practice, moreover, often facilitates a comfort level in the courtroom and provides helpful insider knowledge about a particular court’s or judge’s practices.”
		This website provides a forum for judicial law clerks to exchange information about their judicial clerkship experiences, talk about their pre- and post- clerkship lives, and provide advice to those who seek to enter the world of judicial clerkships as a law clerk.
	www.judicialclerkships.com /law-clerks.htm (738 words)

	Law clerk - Law terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In the United States, usually a law school student employed by a law firm to do research and other tasks.
		In the courts, a lawyer (or law school student) employed to do legal research.
		Law students who assist judges and attorneys with legal research, writing, etc.
	www.encyclopedia-wiki.org /encyclopedias/lawglossary/Law-clerk.html (76 words)

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		The Law Clerk Program was designed to provide an alternative legal education for people who do not attend or complete law school.
		The clerk must spend a minimum of 30 hours each week studying and performing the duties of a law clerk.
		A proposed tutor must be an active member in good standing with the WSBA and have been actively and continuously practicing law or serving in the required judicial position for at least 10 years immediately preceding the filing of the application.
	www.wsba.org /lawyers/licensing/faq-rule6.htm (807 words)

	The Curmudgeonly Clerk
		And in particular, ideological judges lack the virtue of justice—the dispositon to decide according to law and to avoid the temptation of using judicial power to remake the law as one wishes it to be.
		Federal law clerks are also sworn in upon assuming their duties.
		The clerk's oath may be amended by the clerk so as to strike out the reference to God and the word "swear," if the party wishes to affirm the oath rather than swear to it.
	curmudgeonlyclerk.blogspot.com (10151 words)

	National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Law clerk for the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
		Served as a law clerk to the Honorable A. Wallace Tashima of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
		Law clerk for the Honorable Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals and worked in the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics Matters.
	www.911commission.gov /about/bios_staff.htm (2225 words)

	United States Tax Court: Law Clerk Opportunities
		A law clerk or attorney adviser to a Judge or Special Trial Judge performs legal research, digesting, drafting, and related assignments on tax cases tried before the judicial officer.
		Law clerks of the Judges and Special Trial Judges are recruited as vacancies occur; however, most positions become available in the summer months.
		A new law clerk without prior Government service is entitled to 13 days of annual leave and 13 days of sick leave for each year of a two year commitment.
	www.ustaxcourt.gov /lc_program.htm (777 words)

	WNEC Law- Faculty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Prior to that, she served as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Kent B. Smith of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.
		Upon graduating from law school, Professor Childs served as a Law Clerk for Chief Judge James M. Rosenbaum, United States District Court for the district of Minnesota, following which he joined the Washington, DC law firm of Williams and Connolly as an associate attorney, working principally in mass tort and intellectual property litigation.
		She has served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Michael A. Ponser of the United States District Court in Springfield, MA, and was an Associate at a small general practice law firm in Boston.
	www1.law.wnec.edu /faculty/index.cfm?selection=doc.1159 (881 words)

	The Curmudgeonly Clerk: August 2004 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Although the excerpted language, perhaps, does not fully convey their motivation, the law review article as a whole gives the unmistakeable impression that increasing the number of Republicans in the Senate is the true goal.
		Though even in jurisdictions in which the law does not allow for recovery under circumstances involving purely emotional harms absent some other condition, it is not clear that all would reject a suit of the sort brought by the Smalling.
		And, as any first-year law student can tell you, the line that separates attenuated injuries for which there nonetheless will be liability from those too attenuated to sustain liability is an amorphous one.
	www.curmudgeonlyclerk.com /weblog/archives/2004_08.html#000609 (8122 words)

	Law Clerk - 2006.2007 Humber Full-Time Postsecondary Calendar
		Students who successfully complete the two-year law clerk diploma are eligible for membership as "Ordinary Members" and can upgrade to the level of "Associate Member" after having worked for three years.
		Being a graduate of Humber's two-year Law Clerk diploma program is equivalent to writing the four provincial exams.
		Graduates are strong candidates for entry-level jobs in law firms or in legal departments of corporations, government departments and agencies, crown corporations, insurance companies, financial institutions and developers.
	postsecondary.humber.ca /02031.htm (373 words)

	Virtual Law Clerk
		We hire virtual law clerks and virtual paralegals who work as independent contractors on a project and task basis.
		Unlike traditional firms which assign tasks to paralegal and clerks which are open ended and designed to "create billable work," these tasks are designed to accomplish the opposite.
		If you are interested in working for Traverse Legal as an independent contractor paralegal or law clerk, send your resume to this address.
	tcattorney.typepad.com /virtuallawclerk (378 words)

	Information About Law Clerk Positions
		Law Clerks are appointed for a period of at least one year, but no more than three years.
		To qualify for the position of law clerk, an applicant must be a law school graduate.
		An applicant with one year of full-time legal work experience after graduation from law school, and who is admitted to a bar of general jurisdiction of a state, territorial, or federal court, may qualify for appointment at the grade JSP-12 level.
	www.cit.uscourts.gov /hr/chambers_employment.htm (307 words)

	Law Clerk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Senior U.S. District Judge Jack D. Shanstrom is accepting applications for a law clerk.
		Judicial law clerks assist in the preparation of the weekly court calendar, are responsible for legal research and the preparation of orders, memoranda and draft opinions.
		Applicants must be licensed attorneys; possess excellent research, analytical, writing and communications skills, and must have 2+ years of criminal and civil legal experience.
	www.ce9.uscourts.gov /web/jobs.nsf/a0cefa69d38ad9ed8525631b006582d0/92d4227d475bd23688256f34006f99c4?OpenDocument (120 words)

	TAFE SA Career Profile: Law Clerk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In South Australia there are more than 1,100 law clerks, this is 7.3% of the national total of 15,600.
		If you are interested in legal process and procedure, but the thought of a four year Bachelor of Law degree and one year as an articled clerk seems a bit daunting, you might want to consider becoming a law clerk instead.
		After several years practice as a law clerk, I feel that I can complete more complex tasks and that I am a significant part of the legal process.
	www.vlepub.sa.edu.au /xml/profiles/Profile_OCC102.aspx (995 words)

	Law Clerk Information
		If you are interested in clerking for a magistrate judge, and meet the minimum qualifications for the position, mail your resume directly to the Magistrate Judge's Chambers.
		All law clerks are automatically exempt from the Leave Act at the time of their appointment, unless the appointing officer elects to have the law clerk(s) covered.
		(5) Summer experience as a law clerk to a state or local judge or law clerk experience on a continuous basis (either full or part-time) in a private firm while attending school, i.e., "working the way through college," not for academic credit.
	www.fedjudge.org /law_clerks.asp (739 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Batts, Deborah A.
		Batts spent the year of 1972-73 as a law clerk for Judge Lawrence W. Pierce of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan.
		She became the first African-American member of the faculty of the Fordham Law School and remained with the university until 1994.
		A member of the Lesbian and Gay Law Association of Greater New York, she once urged a graduating class at Fordham Law School to enact laws to protect against anti-gay discrimination.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/batts_da.html (675 words)

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