law clerk (redirected fromJudicial clerkship) law clerk n. 1.A graduate of law school who is employed as an assistant to a judge for a period of one or two years to gain legal experience prior to assuming long-term employment in the legal profession. ...
Judicial Ethics, Law Clerks and Politicslaw clerkcourt atorneyethicsjudgejudicialelectionelectrunBerkeley Electronic Press Selected WorksGerald LebovitsSocial Science Electronic Publishing
Second, for a strong jurisprudential inquiry into impartiality, the relevant differences between civil and common law judges, the nature of adjudication and law, and the justification for positive legal restrictions on judges’ conduct, see W. Bradley Wendel,Impartiality in Judicial Ethics: A Jurispr...
Ethics in Transition: Unrepresented Litigants and the Changing Judicial Role. Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy, 22, 367-398.Engler, Russell (2008) "Ethics in Transition: Unrepresented Litigants and the Changing Judicial Role," 22 Notre Dame J. of Law, Ethics & Public ...
Picket serves on the WSBA Board of Governors and assisted David Thorner in his appointment to the WSBA Ethics department. The problem with this proposal is that is a thinly veiled solicitation of a bribe. These elected officials want the office which the voters proclaimed to Janelle Riddle. ...
TO BE OR NOT TO BE?: SOME LEGAL ETHICS FOR JUDICIAL LAW CLERKSJoshua Wilner
Once a law clerk has been admitted to the bar, he will be bound by the standards expressed in his bar's code of professional responsibility. As the trusted agent of a judge, a clerk is regarded by some courts as bound by the judicial standards binding his principal. Law clerks in ...
Knapp and Hulbert describe ghostwriting in two critical legal arenas: judicial opinions and lawyer-written materials for indigent clients. The authors first explore the complex world of judicial opinion writing, focusing primarily on the use of law clerks to pen opinions for US Supreme Court ...
Legal EthicsProfessional ResponsibilityJudicial Law ClerksJudicial law clerks are largely overlooked in the Canadian legal literature. This article provides a new doctrinal account of the ethical obligations of law cleSocial Science Electronic Publishing...