How to Use law clerk in a Sentence

law clerk

noun

• First, the report seems to make clear that this leak did not come from a law clerk or a court employee.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 28 May 2023
• In 1992, Linda was hired as a law clerk at the firm where Craig was a junior associate.
  — Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2024
• Del Giudice did not reply to inquiries from The News, but the judge’s chief law clerk said he’s been planning to step down.
  — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 27 May 2024
• These justices would all rely on a memo drafted by that one law clerk to advise them on whether to hear the case.
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 3 May 2024
• Second, this is precisely the time of year when the judge’s law clerks, who help craft rulings over the course of a one-year term, move on to make way for new clerks.
  — Byjeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 15 Aug. 2023
• Trump talk: With a gag order temporarily lifted in his civil fraud case, Trump again attacked the judge in the case and the judge’s law clerk.
  — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 27 Nov. 2023
• Justice Elena Kagan and her law clerks had been in the courtyard earlier in the day, the employees said.
  — Mark Sherman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
• In the early days of the Supreme Court, justices sometimes hired their sons as law clerks to assist them with cases, and law clerks often worked out of justices’ homes.
  — Abbie Vansickle, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• That became the message to generations of O’Connor law clerks: no excuses, the work has to get done no matter what.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2023
• Newman claims she was also stripped of her assistant, a law clerk and an office computer.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
• He is currently employed as a permanent law clerk at the Connecticut Supreme Court.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2024
• Redden is accused of punching a corrections officer, and a law clerk involved in the melee sustained cuts on a hand, the arrest report said.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2024
• In the state's Supreme Court system, the position of principal law clerk generally serves as a training ground for future judges.
  — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2023
• The site, open only to current and former clerks, is a crowdsourced effort started by a former law clerk who says her career was derailed by an abusive judge.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2024
• His former law clerk, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, ought to openly take up that mantle now.
  — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2024
• To speed processing times, Tsankov explained, the courts need more judges but also more interpreters, legal assistants and law clerks.
  — Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• Trump has derided the judge — and the judge imposed a gag order after the former president publicly criticized his law clerk.
  — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2023
• Farbiarz has a lengthy legal career, serving as a law clerk, assistant U.S. attorney, as well as a professor.
  — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 20 Apr. 2023
• Peter Park, who has since turned 18 and now works as a law clerk at the Tulare County district attorney’s office, passed the exam on his first try, the district attorney’s office announced in a news release.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• Thomas has recused himself from only one other case related to the 2020 election, involving former law clerk John Eastman, and so far the people trying to disqualify Trump haven’t asked him to recuse.
  — Nicholas Riccardi, Twin Cities, 5 Jan. 2024
• Immigration judges are short of law clerk support, interpreters, and legal assistants.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 18 Oct. 2023
• Their law clerks typically screen amicus briefs before elevating those that might be of interest to their bosses.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2024
• The judge also hired his son as a law clerk without a contract and without his son undergoing the hiring process of other court employees through the Alabama Administrative Office of Courts, officials say.
  — Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Sep 2024