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A law clerk, judicial clerk, or judicial assistant is a person, often a lawyer, who provides direct counsel and assistance to a lawyer or judge by researching issues and drafting legal opinions for cases before the court.
The Judicial Code (28 U.S.C. § 671) provides that the clerk is appointed, and may be removed, by order of the Supreme Court. The clerk's duties are prescribed by the statute and by Supreme Court Rule 1, and by the court's customs and practices. The clerk of the Supreme Court is a court clerk.
Judicial Clerkship Handbook, USC Gould Law School, 2013-2014, p. 33, Appendix B. "Law Clerks of Chief Justice Earl Warren," Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (2015). Retrieved August 15, 2016.
First Hispanic American male (Chief Justice of the United States): Ted Cruz in 1996 [12] First Orthodox Jewish female: Rochelle Lee Shoretz in 1998 [13] First Vietnamese American male to clerk for two Justices: Joseph T. Thai in 2000 [14] First Asian American female: Neomi Rao in 2001 [15] First blind male: Isaac Lidsky in 2008 [16]
After law school, Browning served as a law clerk for Judge Collins J. Seitz on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1981 to 1982 and then clerked for Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1982 to 1983. After finishing his judicial clerkships, Browning returned to New Mexico and began ...
A court clerk (British English: clerk to the court or clerk of the court / k l ɑːr k /; American English: clerk of the court or clerk of court / k l ɜːr k /) is an officer of the court whose responsibilities include maintaining records of a court and administering oaths to witnesses, jurors, and grand jurors [1] [2] as well as performing some quasi-secretarial duties. [3]
Justices in the early history of the United States Supreme Court hired law clerks straight from law school based on personal recommendations. But over time, applicants to Supreme Court clerk posts began to more often have prior experience, and between 1962 and 2002, 98 percent of Supreme Court clerks had clerked before. [5]
Nelson and Reid. "Legal Biography" in The Literature of American Legal History. Oceana Publications Inc. 1985. Reprinted by Beard Books. 2006. p 58. 2 Hoffman's Course of Legal Study 622; John McEldowney, "Challenges in Legal Biography: The Role of Biography in Legal History" (2004) 39 Irish Jurist 215 to 242