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
  • There are unwritten rules for some young law clerks who go to work for federal judges.
    — Carrie Johnson, NPR, 9 June 2025
  • 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
  • Eventually, a new law clerk arrived, and S said the judge made advances on her too.
    — Carrie Johnson, NPR, 1 Mar. 2025
  • One of them, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, served as his law clerk.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Newman claims she was also stripped of her assistant, a law clerk and an office computer.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • To handle the large volume of petitions, the justices rely heavily on their law clerks.
    — The Conversation, 24 June 2026
  • Among other things, Congress could zero out the Court’s budget for law clerks and other support staff.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Rival law firms have already implemented the practice, as have federal judges looking to hire law clerks.
    — Jason L. Riley, Sun Sentinel, 24 July 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Griffith worked as a law firm and federal law clerk while moonlighting in the evenings and weekends as a family and wedding photographer.
    — Jeff Rose, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
  • He is currently employed as a permanent law clerk at the Connecticut Supreme Court.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • His former law clerk, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, ought to openly take up that mantle now.
    — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 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
  • Ruth, a Massachusetts native, was a former law clerk for the state Supreme Court and a real estate attorney.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • This problem will be felt most acutely by the Supreme Court itself, which has only nine justices staffed by a bare handful of law clerks and a skeletal administrative staff.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 28 June 2024
  • Miers, a friend of the president who had worked as a law clerk but had no prior experience as a judge, eventually withdrew her nomination to the Supreme Court.
    — Carrie Johnson, NPR, 22 Nov. 2024

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