How to Use law clerk in a Sentence

law clerk

noun
  • The unnamed judge had initially cast doubt on the account of law clerks who served as witnesses, only to take that back.
    — Carrie Johnson, NPR, 9 June 2026
  • To handle the large volume of petitions, the justices rely heavily on their law clerks.
    — The Conversation, 24 June 2026
  • Their ruling said Newman enjoys an office in the courthouse, employs a law clerk and gets a paycheck and benefits.
    — Carrie Johnson, NPR, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Lawyers across the country are debating whether the punishment, which included apologies to a half dozen law clerks, and an agreement never to serve as chief judge, was too light.
    — Carrie Johnson, NPR, 9 June 2026
  • Court officials noted that judges have long used research attorneys and law clerks to assist with tasks such as legal research, legal analysis and even the drafting of rulings.
    — Sean Emery, Oc Register, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Remington’s son, a law clerk, also appeared in the ruling’s metadata, according to Bugni.
    — Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Between her job as a law clerk for Justice Howard Wynn and a difficult family life, Avery Keene is balancing a lot.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Jason Treul, 32, Santa Ana, California, law clerk.
    — Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Munro spent 16 years working at EOIR, first as a law clerk and then at the Board of Immigration Appeals.
    — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The attorneys showed up to their new work locations on Monday, where most were told they've been reassigned to work as entry-level law clerks — a job typically reserved for people who are fresh out of law school, the sources added.
    — Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The firm sought the analysis after learning Remington's son, who is a law clerk for Hyland, was involved in the drafting of the order, according to Troupis' attorney.
    — Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Hina lost a physically demanding immunity challenge and voted off law clerk Jason Treul, 32.
    — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The concerns about the appearance of bias against the MPD stem from an incident involving one of Norris’s law clerks who had assisted the judge during the Nichols trial.
    — Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Early in his legal career, Adelman worked as a law clerk, trial attorney for the Legal Aid Society and as a private lawyer in Milwaukee.
    — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Beau moved to Westfield in 2024 to study for the bar exam, and that fall moved to Bloomington to work as a judicial law clerk in the federal Seventh Circuit appeals court.
    — Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, Barrett stressed the importance of collegiality among the justices on the nation’s highest court and how her law clerks weed through the bevy of amicus briefs the court receives, only passing along to her those that lay out legal arguments rather than policy ones.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
  • According to court documents, Judge Norris suggested during a meeting that at least one of the officers was in a gang tied to the October 2024 shooting of a law clerk, who was struck in the chest during an auto theft.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Phillips will be working alongside fellow mediators Catherine Geyer and Michelle Yoshida, as well as law clerk Caroline Kedeshian, Watson’s order states.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Senior Judge Frank Whitney opened the court first thing in the morning Wednesday to swear in Ferguson, his former law clerk, Ferguson told The Charlotte Observer.
    — Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The delay could have long-term health impacts, especially for young children who live near these polluters, Annie Fox, a law clerk with the Clean Air Council, told IndyStar in September.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The delay may seem short, but the impacts will be long-term, said Annie Fox, a law clerk with the Clean Air Council, one of the many environmental groups and community organizations suing the EPA.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Calvo told the Herald his first full-time job was as a law clerk in the summer of 2022, shortly after graduating from Florida International University College of Law.
    — Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Part Three The Last Case That might have been the end of the story but for an unusual confluence of events that landed a former federal law clerk with an extraordinary resumé in a prison bunk bed next to the last inmate still fighting the 5th Circuit’s sham denials.
    — Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Previously, Pattain worked as law clerk to Referee Jenese Larmouth in Ramsey County Family Court, and is a commissioner and vice chairperson of the Sustainability Commission for the City of Minnetonka.
    — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The manual, widely cited and relied upon by law clerks and justices, is produced in partnership with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and also includes chapters on artificial intelligence, DNA identification and epidemiology, among other subjects.
    — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 10 Feb. 2026
  • While at William Mitchell College of Law, now Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Haley worked as a law clerk at Kalina, Wills, Gisvold & Clark in Minneapolis and for the Carver County and Ramsey County attorney’s offices.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 14 Apr. 2026

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