Podcasts about Clerkship

In this episode of the Level Up Claims podcast, Galen Hair hosts Lori Waters, Managing Attorney at Insurance Claim HQ. Lori shares invaluable insights on tackling complex property casualty cases, emphasizing the importance of ethical practices, strong client communication, and the pitfalls of neglecting proper legal procedures. Her journey from defense attorney to plaintiff advocate offers unique perspectives for both seasoned and aspiring legal professionals. Tune in for practical advice and learn how to avoid common mistakes that can hinder claims and cause unnecessary delays. Perfect for anyone in the property casualty field!   Highlights Lori' Early Inspiration: Watching Perry Mason Clerk Experience: Learning from Bad Lawyering Transition from Clerkship to Defense: Initial Challenges Insights from Defense Work: Writing and Dual Perspectives Initial Struggle in Plaintiff Side: Client Engagement Realization Ethics and Referrals: Client Representation Boundaries Contractor Payment Issues: Importance of Communication Recommendations for New Lawyers: Knowledge and Mentorship   Episode Resources Connect with Galen M. Hair https://insuranceclaimhq.com hair@hairshunnarah.com https://levelupclaim.com/ Connect with Lori Waters https://insuranceclaimhq.com/attorney/lori-a-waters/  

As clerkship interview season kicks off, we ask a seasoned interviewer and a recent interviewee to give their top tips for making the most of your interview. Cat and Sam are joined by Sydney staff partner Sikeli Ratu and 2022-23 summer clerk Zoe Shim, who share their experiences of interviewing for clerkships. What's the best way to prepare for an interview? What should you talk about? What star characteristics are interviewers looking for?  Got more questions? Don't forget to check out our Clerkship Companion, our end-to-end guide to navigating the clerkship process.

Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak (Host and Stanford University PD) and Dr. Michelle Lin (ALiEM Founder/UCSF) are joined by Dr. Jessica Bod (Yale EM Clerkship Director) who gives thoughtful and thought-provoking insights into the EM sub-intern clerkship. What if you decide to pivot into EM relatively late in your medical school career? What should I be thinking about after the clerkship?  https://www.ALiEM.com/em-match-advice-44-sub-internship-clerskhip/ 

Medical residency in a rural area is one of the key influencing factors for providers to stay and continue practicing in a rural area. This week on Rural Health Leadership Radio we are talking to Yoana Cruz, Clerkship and Sub-Internship Coordinator in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. We talk with Yoana about the growing need for more providers in rural healthcare, and how she is bringing awareness to the need with up-and-coming medical students and working to connect those students with rural residencies.  “Although I may not be the person that gives direct care for patients, I hope to encourage medical professionals at an early stage of their career to provide the best quality care for patients.”  – Yoana Cruz Born and raised in southwest Kansas, Yoana Cruz grew up in a welcoming community, full of hard-working immigrant families from more than thirty countries. Despite its rich heritage and tolerant culture, this agrarian city has many health disparities due to its growing number of immigrants and political refugees. The regional healthcare delivery system is slow to react to the complex medical and social needs of these diverse groups. Yoana's own experiences with barriers to utilizing the healthcare delivery system as a child of immigrants have informed her perspective on health equity and motivated her to pursue mission-driven work in healthcare administration.  Yoana has 6+ years of project planning experience in the healthcare setting while previously working at Kearny County Hospital, Cerner Corporation, and now at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She is a 1st generation academic student where she received her BBA from Fort Hays State University and recently graduated in May 2024 in her Master of Health Services Administration from the University of Kansas Medical Center. In her spare time, she holds professional development workshops for undergraduate students pursuing business or healthcare-related careers. 

Today, we're continuing our close look at clerkships and residency programs and what students can do to be successful in them with Dr. Sharon Bord and Dr. Amelia Pousson, who are both physicians and assistant professors in emergency medicine at Johns Hopkins University, where, as most listeners know, Osmosis co-founder and Raise the Line host Shiv Gaglani is pursuing his third year of medical school. “I think one of the things that students really feel when they rotate in the ED is the team-based atmosphere. Emergency medicine providers help each other be the best versions of ourselves that we can in medicine. That is really unique,” explains Dr. Bord, who serves as the emergency medicine clerkship and sub-internship director. For her part, Dr. Pousson wants students to realize there are many paths to becoming a wonderful emergency physician. “There's lots of ways to sort of peel the orange and get it just right even if the path there looks a little bit different for each person,” she says.  Both agree that among the keys for success are rigorous honesty and self-reflection about your goals and limitations, and whether the specialty is a good fit. Tune in for an expansive conversation that provides valuable wisdom and fascinating insights into one of the most vital and challenging of medical specialties. Mentioned in this episode: Johns Hopkins Core Clerkship in Emergency Medicine

In this double-guest special, David Lat shares his original reporting on the exodus of Judge Aileen Cannon's clerks and its implications for Trump's classified documents case. Judge David Proctor of the Northern District of Alabama then joins to explain the history and function of the federal judiciary and its committees, including the Judicial Conference. The Agenda: —Do younger clerks just not understand hard work? —Judge Cannon's declining reputation —Delays in Trump's documents case —How the federal judiciary came to be —Rule-making process for the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure —Multi-district litigation and its criticisms Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Day in Legal History: W.E.B. DuBois is BornOn this day in legal history, February 23 commemorates the birth of W.E.B. DuBois in 1868, a seminal figure in the realm of civil rights and one of the founding members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). DuBois was not only instrumental in the creation of the NAACP but also served as a beacon of intellectual and social advocacy, championing the rights and advancement of African Americans throughout his life. His scholarship, particularly his seminal work "The Souls of Black Folk," challenged the pervasive racial injustices of his time and offered a compelling narrative that underscored the importance of civil rights, social justice, and equality.DuBois's advocacy extended into the legal sphere, where his efforts helped to lay the foundation for future legal challenges against segregation and discrimination. He was a proponent of using legal action as a means to achieve civil rights, influencing key figures and strategies in subsequent civil rights movements. His international work, including his role in the Pan-African Congresses, aimed at garnering global support against racism and imperialism, highlighting the interconnectedness of the struggle for justice worldwide.Moreover, DuBois's commitment to education and political activism paved the way for future generations of African American lawyers, scholars, and activists. His insistence on the right to education and political participation for African Americans contributed to the desegregation of schools and expanded voting rights, themes that would find their echoes in landmark legal decisions throughout the 20th century.Through his life, W.E.B. DuBois exemplified the power of combining scholarly research with activism. His legacy is not just in the organizations he helped to found or the immediate legal battles he influenced, but also in his enduring impact on the strategies and philosophies of the civil rights movement. His birthday serves as a reminder of the ongoing struggle for equality and the importance of relentless advocacy and intellectual engagement in pursuing social justice.Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., is aiming to be exempt from personal liability in lawsuits alleging that social media platforms have addicted children. These lawsuits, currently pending in a California federal court, target not just Meta but also Zuckerberg individually. The core of these legal challenges involves accusations that Zuckerberg ignored warnings about the dangers of Instagram and Facebook to minors, choosing instead to misrepresent the safety of these platforms publicly. Plaintiffs argue that Zuckerberg, as the prominent figure of Meta, bears a direct responsibility to be truthful about the risks posed to children's health by the company's platforms.The lawsuits leverage a notable quote from Spider-Man comics to underline their argument: "With great power comes great responsibility," criticizing Zuckerberg for not adhering to this principle. Zuckerberg's defense hinges on the assertion that his role as CEO does not inherently make him personally responsible for the company's actions. His legal team further contends that any statements he made are protected under the First Amendment, arguing there was no obligation for him to disclose internal safety findings.The litigation against Zuckerberg forms part of a broader wave of legal action targeting social media companies, with over a thousand lawsuits filed in various courts. These cases accuse companies like Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snap of contributing to mental health issues among young users. The outcomes of these cases could have significant implications, potentially setting precedents for holding high-ranking executives personally liable for their companies' actions.In addition to these suits, Zuckerberg faces personal liability in a separate case related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, highlighting the ongoing legal challenges for social media executives over their platforms' impacts and their personal roles in company practices. The legal scrutiny extends beyond the courtroom, with social media's influence on youth mental health and its role in spreading harmful content drawing critical attention from lawmakers and the public alike.Mark Zuckerberg Wants Out of Social Media Addiction LawsuitsThe Legal Accountability Project is launching a Centralized Clerkship Database in March, aimed at providing prospective law clerks with insights into judges they may work for, based on hundreds of surveys from former clerks. This initiative, spearheaded by Aliza Shatzman, who founded the group after a negative clerking experience, seeks to "democratize information" about the often opaque and rumor-driven process of selecting clerkships. The database, accessible to those who register and pay a $20 subscription fee, offers a platform for sharing candid experiences, aiming to break the traditional silence surrounding clerkships, especially those marked by negative or neutral experiences. Shatzman emphasizes that the database addresses a critical need for transparency in the clerking process, where young lawyers and law students can find themselves in vulnerable positions due to the significant power imbalance between them and the judges they serve. Over 800 responses have been collected for the database, with respondents given the option to remain anonymous or be named, provided their identities can be verified to ensure the integrity of the information shared.The platform not only allows for the sharing of experiences but also serves as an accountability tool, highlighting the behavior and management styles of judges, thus potentially influencing future clerking decisions. It represents a significant step towards transparency in the judiciary by allowing prospective clerks to make informed decisions based on the experiences of their predecessors.Judge Clerkship Database to Launch With Hundreds of TestimonialsFormer U.S. President Donald Trump has requested a federal judge to dismiss the criminal charges against him, which accuse him of mishandling sensitive national security documents after leaving office. Trump's legal team argues that the prosecution is flawed, challenging the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith, claiming a conflict with U.S. laws on presidential records, and stating that the main charge is vaguely defined. Trump, who faces a 40-count indictment in Florida for retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort, has pleaded not guilty. His defense includes claims of presidential immunity, stating that the allegations are based on decisions made during his presidency. Prosecutors have dismissed Trump's immunity claim as "frivolous," highlighting that the charged conduct occurred after he left office. With a trial set for May, Trump has sought a delay, while his lawyers also intend to argue for dismissal based on claims of selective prosecution and prosecutorial misconduct. The case's progression may be affected by Trump's ability to appeal against a potential denial of his immunity claim, as seen in other legal challenges he faces.Trump moves to dismiss charges accusing him of mishandling classified documents | ReutersThis week's closing theme is by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and brought to us thanks to the Internet Memory Foundation (formerly the European Archive Foundation) which is a non-profit foundation whose purpose is archiving content of the World Wide Web. It supports projects and research that include the preservation and protection of digital media content in various forms to form a digital library of cultural content.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, is revered as one of the most prolific and influential composers in the history of classical music. His extensive body of work encompasses a wide range of genres, including symphonies, operas, concertos, and chamber music, reflecting both his genius and the breadth of his contributions to the musical world. Mozart's ability to meld intricate harmonies with the expressive depth and the innovative complexity of his compositions has made his music timeless, resonating with audiences centuries after his death.One of Mozart's most beloved compositions is the "Serenade in G Major," K. 525, popularly known as "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" ("A Little Night Music"). Composed in 1787, this serenade is notable for its lively, joyful melodies and its elegance, embodying the quintessential characteristics of the Classical era. The first movement, "I. Allegro," in particular, stands out for its memorable opening motif and the graceful interplay of musical lines, showcasing Mozart's mastery in crafting themes that are at once sophisticated and accessible."Romance," the second movement of "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik," is a serene contrast to the vivacity of the first, offering listeners a moment of calm and introspection. This movement exemplifies Mozart's skill in creating music that speaks to the human experience, weaving melodies that capture a wide range of emotions within a single composition. The piece's enduring popularity attests to its universal appeal and the genius of its creator, who, even in a work intended as light evening entertainment, could touch the depths of the human soul.Mozart's legacy extends far beyond his compositions; he is a symbol of artistic perfection and the eternal beauty of music. "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik," with its blend of elegance, clarity, and emotional depth, serves as a perfect introduction to Mozart's oeuvre, offering a glimpse into the mind of a composer whose works have defined the classical canon and continue to inspire musicians and music lovers around the world.Without further ado, Mozart's second movement of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.  Get full access to Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast at www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

Riley and Jack tackle preparation for clerkship exams! This advice certainly applies to anyone studying for an exam while working and trying to keep up with life! We talk study materials, types of exams, and test day preparation. We love comments, questions, and concerns - please keep ‘em coming. As always, thank you for listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/riley-baker23/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/riley-baker23/support

Interviewees:  Cleveland Clinic Group - Craig Nielsen MD (Clinical Leadership), Stacie Jhaveri MD,  Diane Young MD (OB-GYN clerkship), Theresa Papich (4th year medical student). Description: This is a story about what happens when everything goes well and when creativity and a can do attitude lead the discussion. Today, we are talking with a team of OB-GYN clerkship, residency and clinical leaders from Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and Theresa Papich, a 4th year medical school student who is a wheelchair user. Throughout our conversation we discuss the accommodations employed to create equal access and the lessons learned along the way.  Most importantly we'll talk with Theresa about how this experience felt for her and what she believes schools can do to improve access for learners with disabilities. Transcript: https://bit.ly/DWDI_Podcast_Ep79 Produced by: Lisa Meeks and Tamar Faggen Audio editor: Jacob Freeman Digital Media: Katie Sullivan Keywords: medical education, disability representation, doctors with disabilities, accessibility, disability mentorship, OB-GYN, clerkship, disability inclusion, wheelchair user, clinical accommodations, internal medicine Website: https://www.docswithdisabilities.org/podcast    

Hi Everyone! Welcome back to another episode of the M.E.O.W. Podcast! On today's episode, we had the opportunity to get to know Ale! Who is a lawyer currently doing her Clerkship at a Family Court in Washington, DC. Hispanics are primarily underrepresented and only makeup about 5.8% of the 1.3 million lawyers in the United States. Of that percentage, 2% are women. In this episode, we get to know Ale and her journey to obtaining her J.D. We are excited to get deep with Ale as she shares her insights into relationships and the common themes she sees daily in family court. Join us for an exciting conversation where we learn about marriage, divorce, prenups, and much much more! . . . In light of the recent violence that has left thousands injured and displaced in Palestine & Israel, please see the links below to donation sites to help those affected by political strife. Israel-Palestine Crisis Relief Fund https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-relief https://www.mecaforpeace.org/ https://baitulmaal.org/donate https://islamic-relief.org/appeals/palestine-emergency-appeal/ https://donate.unrwa.org/-landing-page/en_EN Join us on ⁠Instagram⁠ to engage with our community and us. We would love to hear your thoughts and ideas on what topics you are interested in and connect!

Meghan O'Brien, MD, MBE, and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee members Tasha Wyatt, PhD, and Javeed Sukhera, MD, PhD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss new research into faculty perspectives on responding to microaggressions targeting medical students in the clinical learning environment. They explore several tensions that affected how faculty responded to the microaggressions in the study scenarios as well as some of the strategies the faculty used to respond effectively.  This is the final episode in this year's 3-part series of discussions with RIME authors about their medical education research and its implications for the field.  A transcript of this episode is available at academicmedicineblog.org.

We had a funny and lively conversation in today's episode. Michael (teacher), Satoshi (5th-year medical student), Momoko (5th-year medical student), and Takeshi (3rd-year medical student) talked about what they did this past weekend including Takeshi's somewhat embarrassing, but hilarious Crocs story. We then talked about the process for applying to clinical clerkships overseas including all of the challenges to make it happen. Enjoy! Glamping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glamping Crocs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael-blodgett5/message

Hosts Sean Kempel and Ariana Saropoulou chat with Partner Elisa Paxton and Senior National Early Careers Advisor Gilda Carter about why blind recruitment during the clerkship and graduate application process is so important, how to make your application stand out, how to prepare for an interview and why grads should consider applying to Hall & Wilcox.

What complications should you watch our for in patients on peritoneal dialysis? Let this once elusive topic become your expertise! This episode was written by Dr. Shareef Akbari (Internal Medicine Resident) and reviewed by Dr. Bogdan Momciu (Nephrology) and Dr. Steven Montague (General Internal Medicine)Infographic by Dr. Caitlyn Vlasschaert (Internal Medicine Resident)Sound editing by Margaret Sun  (Internal Medicine Resident)Support the show

Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships provide educational continuity, enabling trusting patient-student relationships that lead students to become agents of change and enhance patient outcomes.   Read the accompanying article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.15013

Listen to this episode for a great summary on TB infection and TB disease! We also discuss new updates and Canadian specific guidelines.  Episode written by Dr. Kevin Zhang, PGY2 Internal Medicine and reviewed by Dr. Jane Batt, Respirology and Dr. Kevin Venus, General Internal Medicine. Infographic by Dr. Valerie Kim. Support the show

In today's episode, 4th-year nursing student returns from her recent one-month nursing clerkship. She talks about the experience and the important lessons she has learned both on the clerkship and in her four years of nursing college. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael-blodgett5/message

You've handed in your clerkship application, crossed your fingers and toes, and gotten through to the next round. What happens next? Hosts Mel and Tahlia navigate their way through clerkship applications with Nick Ng, Brisbane Staff Partner and Government Sector Leader, and Renee Zou, Lawyer and co-author of Your Clerkship Companion, our start-to-finish guide to navigating the clerkship process. How do you get the most out of networking events? What's the best way to ace your interview? Is your clerkship buddy actually just a spy for the firm? Nick and Renee provide their insider tips on putting your best foot forward. Explore Your Clerkship Companion Hear more about our making your application stand out and the Rare recruitment tool in part one of our Answering your questions episode

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    Welcome back to Powerhouse Lawyers with Erin Gerner! PHL Retreat [00:00] Join us for an in-person community building experience. Reserve your spot now: https://www.eringerner.com/Powerhouse-Lawyers-Retreat  Intro [01:44] Guest introduction: Aliza Shatzman [02:13] Aliza is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis Law school. She had intentions to use her legal background to support reproductive services in the United States. Aliza became a clerk to boost her resume and professional development. She founded The Legal Accountability Project after experiencing workplace harassment during her clerkship program.  Aliza's Clerkship [04:57] Aliza shares her experience with gender based harassment with the judge that she was assigned to. After reaching out for support to other lawyer mentors, Aliza was instructed to “stick it out” for the remainder of her clerkship program. Unfortunately, employee dispute plans did not exist where she worked and don't exist for many other clerkship programs. Why is the judicial clerkship process important? [11:29] The Legal Accountability Project  [16:00] The Legal Accountability Project is a nonprofit organization founded on Aliza's experience with workplace harassment. The mission of the organization is to support and protect the clerks throughout their clerkship programs. The most transformative service LAP provides is through building a database of clerk experiences with their previous judge mentor. Advice for future clerks [32:50] Aliza advices future clerks to share their clerkship experience and seek others experiences too. Your experience is not rare. The messaging is that you must stay silent. That helps no one in the long run. Closing [38:19] Burnout and overwhelm may be a part of your everyday life, but it doesn't have to be! Here are five action steps that helped me crawl my way out of the weeds of life and into building the life I wanted and knew I deserved. Eliminate overwhelm in life AND law, now! https://www.eringerner.com/eliminating-overwhelm  Powerhouse Lawyer Retreat: https://www.eringerner.com/Powerhouse-Lawyers-Retreat Find Aliza Shatzman: The Legal Accountability Project https://www.legalaccountabilityproject.org/  Share your clerkship experience https://www.legalaccountabilityproject.org/clerkships-database-1  LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-legal-accountability-project/  Twitter https://twitter.com/The_LAP_  Email aliza.shatzman@legalaccountabilityproject.org    Stay connected with Erin Gerner Website eringerner.com    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-gerner/  Facebook https://www.facebook.com/erin.w.gerner  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/eringerner/?hl=en

In today's episode, our three 5th-year medical students (Satoshi, Haruka, & Momoko) talk about their experiences working at the hospital over the past year. This leads to a discussion about lifestyle diseases, their causes, and some possible solutions as they consider their future as medical doctors in Japan. Enjoy! Lifestyle diseases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_disease --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael-blodgett5/message

When we, as medical students, start rotations, it is essential to understand that we will encounter death, which some students may not have been exposed to beforehand. In this episode, three CUSM medical students who have faced death during their rotations discuss their perspectives on how death impacts them and the inherent close relationship between healthcare and death. They discuss the challenges of losing a patient, the grieving process, and some coping mechanisms they have developed. Music: https://pixabay.com/music/id-112777/   Episode Team:  Guests - Dharshan Chandramohan (MS4), Nancy Luong (MS4), Taylor Baranski (MS4)  Host - Hira Khan (MS2)Script Writers - Hira Khan (MS2)Audio - Anthony Mamaril (MS2), Danny Abdalnour (MS2)Producers - Hijab Gulwani (MS2), Yuu Ohno (MS2)Director - Vy Han, MD 

Aliza Shatzman is a judicial clerkship advocate. After a poor clerkship experience, Aliza created the Legal Accountability Project to bring transparency and accountability to the federal clerkship process. Find out how this pioneer and founder ensures the next generation of clerks is protected from bad judges. The Power of Judicial ClerkshipsClerkships are an important tool for lawyers interested in working in academia, trial lawyers, and Big Law associates, and they are a great way to hone your legal writing and reading skills. During the spring semester of 1L year, many law students participate in on-campus interviewing to work for large law firms or with governmental agencies. Kyla Denanyoh was surprised to learn that judicial clerkships are not “pitched” or hold job fair-type events at law schools to find law students.Whistleblowing in the JudiciaryAliza told the HR department about the harassment and gender-based discrimination she faced during her judicial clerkship. The HR department didn't do anything. Then Aliza contacted her law school and was informed that the judge's conduct had not raised any flags or concerns.There are multiple levels of harassment - Aliza received harassment and a poor reputation with a job revoked. But there are also issues that a lawyer would face when they appear before a judge. Judges have enormous power, and judiciary workplaces are exempt from Title VII of the Fair Employment practices that regulate workplace conduct, which is backward and impractical. There are state and federal bar rules and judicial rules of conduct, but other judges need to enforce these rules. Despite her experiences, Aliza wants to maintain judicial clerkships. Aliza created the Clerkships Database, which allows law schools to pay to have their law school participate in the database and leave true and honest references about What Can You Do with a Law DegreeAliza Shatzman did not have a positive judicial clerkship experience. Aliza received negative references when her clerkship ended, and her employment position was revoked. However, Aliza took the unfair situation and decided to rally for every future judicial clerk. When Aliza Shatzman created the Legal Accountability Project, she wanted to ensure that other clerks would learn from her terrible clerkship experience. Aliza is frequently contacted by members from affinity student bar associations, for example, LGBT, Haitian-American, Arab-American, Deaf, and Hard of Hearing, Japanese-American, and Black American bar members.Lawyer Side HustlesAlthough Aliza Shatzman has always enjoyed public speaking and writing, traveling to law schools, teaching CLEs, and sharing her experiences are valuable assets to revolutionizing the clerkship process. There have been a few bumps and pivots in the entrepreneurship process. Still, Aliza is grounded in reaching every regional or top 5 law school to ensure that every law student understands the clerkship process.As Aliza tours different law schools and talks to students about their experiences and the availability of clerkships, she finds that the process varies wildly based on the law school's resources.Join the FREE mailing list!Get behind-the-scenes content from You Are A Lawyer. 1) Visit www.youarealawyer.com2) Add your email address to the Subscribe pop-up box OR3) Enter your email address on the right side of the screen4) Get emails from me (I won't fill your inbox with junk)!Interact with You Are A LawyerKyla Denanyoh hosts the You Are A Lawyer podcast. Follow the podcast:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@youarealawyerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/youarealawyer/Twitter:  https://twitter.com/YouAreA_LawyerWebsite: https://www.youarealawyer.com

In today's special Panel Opinion episode of How I Lawyer produced in collaboration with The Appellate Project I am excited to welcome four lawyers to talk about the judicial clerkship process and how to secure a judicial clerkship. Specifically I speak with: Megan Moffett Grayce Zelphin Ramon Ryan Justin Lam I am excited to partner with the Appellate Project once again on this episode. TAP is a non-profit dedicated to diversifying the appellate bar and empowering law students of color to thrive in the appellate field. On Episode #103, I spoke with four appellate lawyers about their paths to appellate practice and I previously spoke to TAP's Executive Director and Founder Juvaria Khan on Episode #10. Learn more about The Appellate Project at http://www.theappellateproject.org. The Clerkship Handbook discussed on the episode is available here. This episode is sponsored, edited, and engineered by LawPods, a professional podcast production company for busy attorneys.

In this episode, 5th-Year Student Satoshi talks about his recent trip to Thailand to participate in a clinical clerkship at Chiang Mai University. He shares stories about working in the emergency department, similarities and differences between Thailand and Japan, and finally how he was inspired to improve his life and create an international student group back at his own university. Enjoy! Chiang Mai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Mai Chiang Mai University https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Mai_University --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael-blodgett5/message

My client Danesha was about to transition from Biglaw to a clerkship. She realized that the way she had been handling her money wouldn't work with her lower salary, so she reached out for help. During our time together, Danesha learned the money management skills she had been lacking. But more importantly, she shifted her money mindset and improved her relationship with money overall. In this episode, Danesha and I talk about our work together, including the mindset shifts she's had around her money and the various fun things she includes in her budget. Head to https://www.rhothomas.com/152 for the full episode show notes. Let's talk about how we can work together: https://www.rhothomas.com/call.

Episode summary: Aliza Shatzman went to school for law and became a clerkship so she could get a government job. She needed to clerk under a judge for 1 year, that was the last of her requirements. Unfortunately, she was unknowingly assigned to a judge who had a history of mistreatment of clerks. He discriminated against women… Continue reading Exploring Legal Accountability; Improving The Courts, One Clerkship At A Time The post Exploring Legal Accountability; Improving The Courts, One Clerkship At A Time appeared first on Choose Your Calling.

Episode Title:​ Exploring Legal Accountability; Improving The Courts, One Clerkship At A TimeEpisode summary:​ Aliza Shatzman went to school for law and became a clerkship so she could get a government job. She needed to clerk under a judge for 1 year, that was the last of her requirements. Unfortunately, she was unknowingly assigned to a judge who had a history of mistreatment of clerks. He discriminated against women and Aliza was no exception. He mistreated her as well and ended the clerkship early. Aliza tried everything in her power to get a job, but with the clerkship ending early, it made it almost impossible. After a year, she finally landed her dream job only for it to be revoked because the judge made a bad statement about her. Not only did this revoke her job offer, but it revoked all the job interviews she had. Not only had this judge harassed her then, but he continues to do damage. So what is Aliza to do? She created a non-profit organization aimed at ensuring that law clerks have positive clerkship experiences while extending support and resources to those who do not. Guest Name & Bio: Aliza Shatzman is the President and Co-Founder of The Legal Accountability Project, a nonprofit aimed at ensuring that law clerks have positive clerkship experiences while extending support and resources to those who do not. Aliza earned her BA from Williams College and her JD from Washington University School of Law, where she served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Law & Policy. After law school, Aliza clerked in D.C. Superior Court during the 2019-2020 term.In March 2022, Aliza submitted written testimony for a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing about the lack of workplace protections in the federal judiciary, detailing her personal experience with gender discrimination, harassment, and retaliation by a former D.C. judge. Aliza now regularly writes and speaks about judicial accountability. She has been published in numerous forums, including the UCLA Journal of Gender & Law, Yale Law & Policy Review, NYU Journal of Legislation & Public Policy, Above the Law, Law360, Slate, Ms. Magazine, and Balls & Strikes.Contact Info: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliza-shatzman-58b55223/Website: https://www.legalaccountabilityproject.org/ Thank you for listening!Please subscribe on iTunes and give us a 5-Star review! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mindset-and-self-mastery-show/id1604262089Listen to other episodes here: www.TheMindsetAndSelfMasteryShow.comLearn more about your host:  www.NickMcGowan.comWatch Clips and highlights: www.youtube.com/channel/UCk1tCM7KTe3hrq_-UAa6GHAGuest Inquiries right here: www.TheMindsetAndSelfMasteryShow.comShare your thoughts here: nick@nickmcgowan.com- Your Friends at “The Mindset & Self-Mastery Show”

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I spent an amazing year clerking on the Ninth Circuit for Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, who could not have been a better boss. And after speaking to numerous clerks over the years, I believe that most enjoy positive clerkship experiences like mine. When law students and young lawyers ask for my opinion on clerking, I generally recommend it (depending on the individual's particular circumstances).But not every law clerk is as fortunate as I was. As we have learned in recent years, some clerks are subjected to harassment and abuse from the judges they clerk for. And because of judges' power and prestige, as well as structural problems that exempt the judiciary from most forms of workplace accountability, clerks often find themselves with nowhere to turn when mistreated by their judicial employers.Aliza Shatzman wants to change that. After being harassed and discriminated against by the judge for whom she clerked, she has become a leading advocate for greater judicial accountability and transparency. She has submitted testimony to Congress, written and spoken widely about these issues, and co-founded the Legal Accountability Project, a nonprofit devoted to “ensur[ing] that as many law clerks as possible have positive clerkship experiences, while extending support and resources to those who do not.”I was pleased to welcome Aliza to the Original Jurisdiction podcast. We talked about her harrowing clerkship experience, the need to pass the Judiciary Accountability Act, why she launched the Legal Accountability Project, and the Project's current initiatives, including a centralized clerkships reporting database. You can listen to our conversation by clicking on the embed above.Show Notes:* Statement for the Record of Aliza Shatzman, Former DC Superior Court Law Clerk, House Judiciary Committee* The Conservative Case for the Judiciary Accountability Act, by Aliza Shatzman for the Harvard Journal on Legislation* Law schools are part of the problem—but they can (and should) be part of the solution, by Aliza Shatzman for the Yale Law & Policy Review* The Legal Accountability Project, official websitePrefer reading to listening? A transcript of the entire episode appears below.Two quick notes:* This transcript has been cleaned up from the audio in ways that don't alter meaning—e.g., by deleting verbal filler or adding a word here or there to clarify meaning.* Because of length constraints, this newsletter may be truncated in email. To view the entire post, simply click on "View entire message" in your email app.David Lat: Hello, and welcome to the Original Jurisdiction podcast. I'm your host David Lat, author of a Substack newsletter about law and the legal profession also named Original Jurisdiction, which you can read and subscribe to by visiting davidlat.substack.com.You're listening to the sixth episode of this podcast, recorded on Monday, November 28. My normal schedule is to post episodes every other Wednesday.One of the nice things about having your own podcast is the ability to cover topics that are important to you. One topic near and dear to my own heart is clerking. I have written about law clerks and judicial clerkships for years, dating back to my first blog, Underneath Their Robes, and my novel, Supreme Ambitions, is also set in the clerkship world.I had a wonderful experience clerking for Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain of the Ninth Circuit, who continues to be a mentor and friend more than two decades after my clerkship, and I want every law clerk to have such a great experience. So I was pleased to welcome to the podcast Aliza Shatzman, co-founder and president of the Legal Accountability Project. The goal of the Project is to ensure that as many law clerks as possible have positive clerkship experiences, while extending support and resources to those who do not.Aliza is an attorney and advocate based in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Williams College and the Washington University School of Law. After law school, Aliza moved to Washington to clerk for a judge on the D.C. Superior Court. Unfortunately, she endured terrible harassment and abuse during her clerkship, as well as retaliation afterwards. She has shared her story—in congressional testimony, articles, and interviews like this one—in order to increase judicial accountability and transparency.As Aliza discusses, one reason it can be so hard to hold judges accountable for mistreating law clerks is the culture of “hero worship” that surrounds judges. And here I have a confession to make: I have definitely contributed to the culture of “judicial celebrity” over the years, which I have come to increasingly regret over time. Without further ado, here's my interview of Aliza Shatzman.DL: Thanks so much for joining me, Aliza!Aliza Shatzman: Thanks for having me on the show.DL: So let's start at the beginning, before we get into your work with the Legal Accountability Project. Why did you decide to go to law school?AS: I went to law school because I wanted to be a reproductive-rights litigator. I wanted to be a trial attorney at Planned Parenthood. I'd always had kind of a sense of moral outrage, particularly on injustices affecting women. Between college and law school, I took a couple of years—I interned and worked on the Hill, did some internships at Planned Parenthood and the National Women's Law Center, and was really just moved by some of the personal stories I heard. So I went to law school knowing I wanted to do public-interest work.DL: And you were at Wash U, I believe, for law school?AS: I was, yes. I was a transfer, so I spent my 1L year at UNC and then transferred to Wash U.DL: And did your plans change in law school in terms of what you wanted to do? It seems like you certainly wanted to stay in public interest, but did your interests shift?AS: They definitely did. Pretty early in law school, I got the prosecutor bug. I did four different internships with the Justice Department during law school, and then decided that I wanted to become a homicide prosecutor in the D.C. U.S. Attorney's office.DL: And what did you do towards that end? You mentioned the internships—what did you do right after law school?AS: I decided to clerk in D.C. Superior Court during the 2019-2020 term. I knew that D.C. AUSAs appeared before D.C. Superior Court judges, so I was really focused on clerking in that courthouse.DL: As I recall from some of your writing, and you've written quite a bit about your clerkship experience, you were initially pretty excited about it, right? And you had heard from professors or references or recommenders good things about the judge you were going to clerk for?AS: Yes, I was excited to launch my career, and definitely Wash U professors made calls on my behalf to help me secure the clerkship. I was definitely excited when I went into it, and the messaging at Wash U Law, like at most law schools, was uniformly positive. This was going to be a lifelong mentor-mentee relationship; the position was going to confer only professional benefits. Nobody back when I was applying for clerkships, or when I started my clerkship, talked about any potential downsides to clerking.DL: And of course it's also good for the law schools to send graduates into these prestigious positions.AS: Indeed it is. They report those clerkship numbers publicly in a variety of fashions, and especially with similarly ranked schools, it goes to their ability to get the most competitive applicants to law school and the best professors who come with their own clerkship networks and relationships with the judiciary. So the relationship between the judiciary and law schools is very closely intertwined in a way that I don't think I fully realized until I started writing and speaking about this.DL: That's so true, and I would also add: applicants are much more savvy than say I was. When I went to law school, I didn't even really know what a clerkship was. But I get calls every year from people who are thinking about law school and a lot of them will ask, “Oh, if I want a clerk, is this a good law school for that?” People are more aware than they were maybe when you were in law school, and certainly when I was in law school, about the value professionally and as a credential of a clerkship.AS: Definitely. I would caution that the law schools that report the highest number of clerks per year are not necessarily the ones most focused on ensuring a positive clerkship experience. And this is based on a lot of conversations with law schools, a lot of conversations with students. But yes, there is a huge push toward clerking. And even now, I'm not dissuading anybody from clerking in the work I'm doing now. It's really about ensuring a positive clerkship experience. And that is different for every student. That is different for every applicant. There is no one-size-fits-all model, and I remain concerned that law schools are just trying to funnel students into as many clerkships as possible.DL: Yes. Weren't you told when you were applying to accept the first clerkship you were offered because this is such a plum position?AS: I absolutely was. And there are still law schools that are giving that advice, which is bad advice, and some have backed off it in recent years, maybe because I'm poking at them and telling them to stop giving that advice. I was told to apply broadly, across the U.S. and across the political spectrum, and to accept the first clerkship I was offered. I did all those things. I should not have done those things, but I did.DL: That brings us to your clerkship in D.C. Superior Court. I think some of my—or many of my—listeners might be familiar with your experience. But for those who are not, can you talk about it?AS: Definitely. I think it's important to share my experience. My experience is not rare, but it is one that is rarely shared publicly, and every clerkship application cycle, so much ink is spilled, so many statements are made, to highlight the best of circumstances. Nobody's talking about the worst of circumstances.I started this clerkship in D.C. Superior Court in August 2019, and just weeks into it, the judge for whom I clerked began to harass me and discriminate against me because of my gender. He would kick me out of the courtroom, telling me I made him “uncomfortable” and he “just felt more comfortable” with my male co-clerk. He told me I was “bossy” and “aggressive” and had “personality issues.” The day I found out I passed the D.C. bar exam—a big day in my life—he called me into his chambers, got in my face and said, “You're bossy. And I know bossy because my wife is bossy.”DL: Oh my gosh. You would've thought, “Congratulations on passing the bar!”AS: I think he also said, “I didn't think you'd pass.”DL: Oh my gosh. Wow.AS: Yeah, I'm painting a picture of this judge. I was just devastated. I remember crying in the courthouse bathroom, crying myself to sleep at night. This was my first legal job out of law school. This judge just seemed to be singling me out for mistreatment. I wished I could be reassigned to another judge. My workplace didn't have an employee dispute resolution or “EDR” plan that might have enabled that to happen. I did confide in some attorney mentors and some other clerks, who advised me to stick it out, and I knew that I needed a year of work experience to be eligible to apply to the U.S. Attorney's Office. So I really tried to.DL: So you were just going forward, crying in the bathroom, putting up with this abuse and harassment, but the best advice—or not the best, but the advice you were given—was, just keep on trucking?AS: Yes, that's correct.DL: Okay, and then what happened?AS: Pandemic happened. March 2020, I moved back to Philly to stay with my parents and worked remotely, and the judge basically ignored me for six weeks, before he called me up and told me he was ending my clerkship early because I made him “uncomfortable” and “lacked respect” for him, but he “didn't want to get into it.” Then he hung up on me.DL: Oh my gosh. So he did that. Just fired you over the phone. Wow. He did not even give you the courtesy of meeting in person. And also I think you mentioned in one of the pieces you wrote that in the lead-up to this, weren't you sending him things like orders and other drafts to look at, and he wouldn't respond to you, he would respond to your co clerk?AS: Yes. Yes.DL: That's crazy. AS: It was pretty bad. I reached out to the D.C. Courts' HR. They said there's nothing they could do because HR doesn't regulate judges, judges and law clerks have a unique relationship, and then they asked me whether I knew that I was an at-will employee. So then I reached out to my law school, Wash U, for support and advice, and I found out the judge had a history of harassing his clerks, which law school officials, including several professors, and the clerkships director, who still works there, knew about at the time I accepted the clerkship. But they decided not to share that with me, I guess, because they wanted another Wash U law student to clerk.DL: Wow. Now this is something we'll return to, but when you were applying for clerkships, did you have access to evaluations or reports about this judge in the Wash U. clerkships office that might have told you about these bad experiences?AS: I did not. Wash U does not conduct a post-clerkship survey. At the time, I did not even know whether they had a list of former clerks who clerked for this judge or others, so they are far behind others in the T20 [top 20 law schools] in this regard.DL: I remember, when I was at Yale, there were these lists of clerks, former clerks, to different judges. You could look them up, and there were evaluations. And we'll return to this—the evaluations were almost uniformly positive because anyone could walk in and look at them, and if you wrote a scathing report, that probably would not be a great thing. But they were there. And I remember sometimes you could read between the lines, and maybe detect something less effusive, but they were mostly positive.AS: Yep. Your alma mater might push back on that, but you are correct. Most of the reports are positive. Yes. DL: Fair enough. Let's go back to where you've been left in this process, and HR says they can't help you, and your law school can't help you. What did you do next?AS: I reached out to some other D.C. judges who connected me with the commission where I ultimately filed my judicial complaint. I wrote it, but I wanted to wait to find a new job because I was worried the judge would retaliate against me. It took me about a year to get back on my feet. I secured my dream job in the D.C. U.S. Attorney's office and moved back to D.C. in the summer of 2021, intending to launch my career as a prosecutor and, I hoped, put all this behind me. I had not been in touch with the judge, and I was hoping to move forward.DL: And I think he had said at some point to you that he would give you a neutral reference if asked?AS: Yes. That's correct.DL: You're at the U.S. Attorney's Office. This is your dream job. This is what you had wanted to do in law school. This is why you clerked for the D.C. Superior Court, to get this job. It seems like everything is going great, right?AS: For a couple weeks. Security clearance seemed to be taking a little bit longer than it should have, which was a red flag. But I was two weeks into training, I'd already started working there, they'd given me all the materials—and I received some pretty devastating news that altered the course of my life. I was told that the judge had made negative statements about me during my background investigation, I wouldn't be able to obtain a security clearance, and my job offer was being revoked.DL: Wow…. And then what did you do next? Did you have any ability to push back or explain or say, look, this was a really biased and unfair review or assessment?AS: I called HR, I called management at the D.C. U.S.A.O. and they said there was nothing they could do, that the decision was final. I absolutely tried to explain. I cried on the phone. I ultimately filed a FOIA request, which was denied in full, even though it was a reference about me that led to the denial of my security clearance. I actually was offered the opportunity a couple days later to interview for another job with that office, and then they revoked that too, based on the judge's same negative reference. At this point, I was two years into my legal career, and this judge just seemed to have enormous power to ruin my reputation and destroy my career.So I filed a judicial complaint with the D.C. Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure. That is a regulatory body for D.C. judges. I hired attorneys and in the summer, in fall of 2021, participated in the investigation into the now-former judge, and we were partway through that when I found out separately that the judge was on administrative leave pending an investigation into other misconduct. At the time he had filed this negative reference, but the U.S.A.O. really was not alerted to the circumstances surrounding that negative reference until January 2022, when pursuant to the terms of our private settlement agreement, separate from anything the judiciary can or would do for a law clerk, the former judge issued a clarifying statement addressing some but not all of his outrageous claims. But by then, the damage had been done. It had been way too long, and I was pretty much blackballed from what I thought was my dream job.DL: Wow. Now, I think you wrote at some point that you did see some of the content of the negative reference—how did you get that? You mentioned your FOIA request was denied.AS: I have a copy of the negative reference, through private settlement negotiations between my attorneys and the then-judge's. I am enormously grateful for everything my attorneys did for me. Were it not for them, I would never have seen this outrageous negative reference, and most law clerks in my position are not fortunate enough to be able to hire attorneys to pursue this type of a claim.DL: I'm curious, this is maybe a bit of a digression, but whom did you hire? It's not like “clerkship abuse” is a practice area. Were these employment lawyers, did they have experience with the judiciary, how did you even know where to turn?AS: Great question. I found my attorneys through a high-profile person in the movement to prevent harassment in the judiciary. She let me use her name. Gave me a list. I started calling through it. It was a large employment litigation shop that does this type of work—not this type of work specifically, but they were fantastic. I'm really grateful for them.DL: So you reached an agreement with the judge. Were you then able to move on with your life professionally? What happened after that?AS: Sort of. I agreed not to identify the judge by name. That is why I refer to him as “the former judge.” He agreed to issue a clarifying statement to the U.S.A.O. addressing some of the claims in the reference. I reapplied to the U.S.A.O., but they definitely did not want anything to do with me. So I found a new job as a family law attorney and thought I would pursue that work.But during the summer when I was going through the judicial misconduct investigation, I became aware of the Judiciary Accountability Act, or “JAA,” which is legislation that would extend Title VII protections to judiciary employees, including law clerks. Currently, folks like me cannot sue our harassers and seek damages for harms done to our lives. So I reached out to a bunch of House and Senate offices involved with that bill to share my story, advocate for the legislation, advocate for an amendment to cover the D.C. courts, which are Article I courts and are currently not covered under the bill. And then a House Judiciary hearing occurred in March of 2022, and I was invited to submit written testimony advocating for the bill, sharing my story. And then I got involved in the weeks and months following that [with] further advocacy work around these issues. Eventually I launched the non-profit in June.DL: I would recommend to people that they check out your testimony. I put it in the show notes. It's very powerful, very detailed. It identifies the problem and talks about possible solutions. In a nutshell—you talked a little bit about it just now—what would the Judiciary Accountability Act do?AS: The JAA, H.R. 4827 and S. 2553, is such important legislation. It would extend Title VII protections to judiciary employees, including law clerks and federal public defenders, but it would do a lot of other important things too. It would clarify that Title 28 of the U.S. Code, which defines judicial misconduct, includes discrimination, harassment, retaliation—currently it doesn't even say that. It would specify that judges who retire, resign, or die amid a misconduct investigation—those [inquiries] won't cease. Currently they do. Some of the most notorious harassers, like former Judge [Alex] Kozinski, step down amid a misconduct investigation, and the judiciary loses jurisdiction over them.It would also standardize employee dispute resolution or EDR plans in the federal courthouses. Courts are theoretically required to follow the EDR plan, but they each implement it a little bit differently. And then it would also impose some really important data collection requirements on the federal judiciary, requiring them to collect and publicly report the results of a workplace culture assessment. They have been just notoriously unwilling to do that until very recently. It would require more transparency around the judicial misconduct complaints. When a judge is adjudicated to have committed misconduct, currently, if you go on the U.S. Courts website, their names are redacted. They are not searchable. It would increase transparency in that. It would also require the judiciary to report data on the lack of diversity in law clerk and federal public defender hiring. The real dearth of data in these spaces has allowed judges to get away with misconduct for decades.DL: This legislation seems like a very important part of the solution. Was your suggestion that it be amended to include D.C. Superior Court and similar courts accepted? Is that now part of the proposed legislation?AS: It's not yet—a Senate hearing would help to revisit this and other issues. It's definitely under consideration. I was told that it was more an oversight than anything else. So, I'm hopeful.DL: What is the status of the JAA right now? Are you optimistic about its chances of passage?AS: It's kind of stalled in Congress. It has 26 co-sponsors in the House, one Republican, six co-sponsors in the Senate, no Republicans yet, but I think that really does not—I know that does not represent the broad swath of folks interested in this legislation. It just needs some sustained attention and a Senate hearing. I always caution that we can't only talk about these issues when there's a flashy hearing. At the same time, I've been told that [a hearing] would garner additional co-sponsors, so it's really important.It's a bipartisan issue. Both Democratic and Republican judicial appointees harass their clerks, both liberal and conservative clerks face mistreatment. The federal judiciary leadership is a weirdly powerful lobby, and they are vociferously opposed to this bill. They have been since 1995, when Title VII was extended to the other two branches. It just needs some sustained attention. Congress has a lot going on every year, but I'm going to keep poking at them about this bill, about a Senate hearing. It's so important. Law clerks absolutely cannot wait another year for these urgently needed reforms. It's outrageous that law clerks are uniquely exempt from Title VII.DL: Why is it that it has so much less support on the Republican side of the aisle? I agree with you that it doesn't seem like it should be a partisan issue.AS: It just doesn't have enough folks lobbying Republicans on the House and Senate Judiciary Committees right now, which was part of the point of my article with the Harvard Journal on Legislation, The Conservative Case for the JAA. I have been reaching out to Republican offices to talk about the bill, and they are receptive and interested. House Republicans during the March 2022 hearing seemed receptive as well, at least to the Title VII protections. I'm a little worried they might want to sever the bill and deal with the Title VII protections now and handle other things later, which I don't think they should do. It just has a lack of support generally, and if we got more Dems we might get more Republicans too. It's a question of putting someone's personal face and story on abstract issues and giving this bill sustained attention.DL: Absolutely. And your testimony did that. And several other women came forward as well and offered testimony. There has been media coverage, so it is starting to get traction. But I guess we'll see what happens in January or in the new session.AS: The lack of people willing to come out and speak publicly on this issue makes it more challenging because judiciary leadership likes to claim these issues are not pervasive in the courts. And I think House and Senate Republicans, probably some House and Senate Democrats too, think similarly, because there's just a dearth of folks willing to share their stories publicly. My story is definitely not rare, but it is certainly rarely shared. And there is just a real culture of fear and silence, one of deifying judges and disbelieving law clerks. I think we're in a better position now than we were in 2018 or 2020, when two previous hearings occurred on these issues. But we still have a long way to go.DL: Let me play devil's advocate. What do you say to arguments that the judge-clerk relationship is a unique relationship and there are duties of clerk confidentiality? There were certainly clerks who, for example, wanted to report allegations against Judge Kozinski, but they were worried about violating the duty of confidentiality. What do you say to people who say this is going to undermine that, that special relationship that makes a clerkship such a great mentorship experience for so many?AS: The judiciary has taken some steps to clarify that the duty of confidentiality does not deal with workplace issues, and anybody who is mistreated can and should report that. Perhaps it is a unique relationship, but I think a clerkship should be considered a job like any other, and the judges should be considered employers running a small workplace. What makes it a unique job is that judges have outsized influence over their former clerks' lives, careers, and reputations, and that this first legal job for many folks has outsized influence over their future career success, which makes it particularly important that we address these issues and particularly important that the next generation of young attorneys are protected from mistreatment.DL: Another point you've made in your writings is at least for the Article III judges, there's life tenure, so in some ways they have even more protection than members of Congress or the president. They're not responsible to the voters. And also they're in some ways more low-profile. Even if there's a kind of hero worship or celebrity worship of judges, at the end of the day, they're not as famous as, say, U.S. senators—so they can probably get away with a lot more, I would guess.AS: Absolutely, they can and they do. Continuing to exempt judges from Title VII and conferring upon them life tenure really sends the message that they're untouchable, that they're above the laws they enforce. They shouldn't be. And definitely life tenure contributes to these problematic behaviors.There's a lack of accountability in the judiciary. Judges are never disciplined. Complaints are rarely filed to begin with. It is a broken system, and I think the JAA and the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act, which is the federal complaint process whereby a clerk can complain about a judge, are really the floor and not the ceiling for judicial accountability legislation. And I would just underscore for anybody who thinks my story is rare or particularly outrageous, it is definitely not, and judges are empowered to get away with outrageous misconduct. And what keeps law clerks silent, what keeps them from filing any sort of complaint, is that they fear that what happened to me will happen to them. That is how judges, some judges, the misbehaving ones, lord their power over their clerks, which is really troubling. It's definitely not all judges. There are lots of wonderful judges who reach out to me to extend their support for what I'm doing and thank me. But these issues are unaddressed in both the state and federal courts, and I'm really hoping that judiciary leadership takes it seriously.DL: What about the argument that the judiciary can police itself and that things like the JAA are threats to judicial independence and the separation of powers?AS: Internal self-policing leads to a lack of policing, and any attempts at internal self-discipline really lead to a lack of discipline. I remain enormously troubled that all judicial accountability mechanisms are run by other judges in the courthouse or the circuit where the complainant law clerk and the misbehaving judge work. Judges are notoriously unwilling to discipline their colleagues. Even when they see misconduct occurring, they're notoriously unwilling to even pull a judge aside and say something.The judicial independence argument is kind of nonsense. We are not talking about suing judges for their rulings, something I would not support. We are saying that judges are employers running a workplace like any other, like the other two branches of government, those are employers. When employees are mistreated, they can sue and seek damages. We're just talking about treating judges like other employers.DL: Have we seen any disasters result from the fact that other governmental entities are subject to suit for workplace violations?AS: Not at all. And part of it is just it sends the right message to say that you are an employer, you are subject to Title VII, you are an employee, you are protected by it. We have not seen any downstream negative consequences from extending Title VII to the other two branches of government.DL: Your testimony was in March 2022, this year, and then in June you started the Legal Accountability Project. Can you tell us what that is about?AS: Sure. So the Legal Accountability Project basically seeks to ensure that law clerks have a positive clerkship experience and then extends support and resources to the ones who don't. I think of the nonprofit as the resource I wish existed as a Wash U law student applying for a clerkship, a law clerk facing harassment and unsure where to go for help, and a former clerk engaging in the formal judicial complaint process. And we're working on a couple of major initiatives in collaboration with law schools beginning this year, and I think that law schools have historically received a free pass in the conversation about judicial accountability and that they should be the first to step forward and make some changes to protect the next generation of folks.DL: You have a couple of projects or initiatives you're working at the Project—can you talk about some of them that you're rolling out this fall?AS: Absolutely. So the Legal Accountability Project is basically premised on gaps that I see in the clerkship application process, a lack of standardization, a lack of transparency, as well as larger issues related to a lack of accountability in our judiciary. So I speak to a lot of law students and I'll say, “So you want to clerk? Great. How would you avoid judges who harass their clerks?” Some might say, “I'd ask someone,” but who are you going to ask? Clerkship directors and deans tell students to “do their research,” but what research are they going to do when so little information about judges is available on an equitable basis?The major initiative we're working on this year is a centralized clerkships reporting database, which is going to democratize information about judges so students considering a clerkship have as much info about as many judges as possible before they make what is clearly a really important decision about their careers. It's basically a better version of the post-clerkship survey that a handful of schools do already internally. As you and I talked about earlier, the schools that do them recognize they're mostly positive reports in there. What I try to tell schools is no school has a monopoly on information about judges. Every school has a ceiling on the number of judges they can keep track of, and it totally depends on who their alumni have clerked for in the past.We are going to have law clerk alumni from participating schools create an account with us and write a report about their judge and their clerkship—good, bad, medium, we want to hear everything—and our questions elucidate lots of information you might want to know before clerking. Certainly mistreatment is something we seek to capture in a way that law schools are not doing right now, but it's also how does the judge provide feedback, do I get writing and courtroom experience, can I take vacation? All kinds of stuff you might want to know about your boss and your job, most of which is just not available to students right now.Law clerk alumni report into the database. It's a subscription model, so law schools pay us $5 per student per year based on their total J.D. enrollment, and then in exchange, law students get access to reading the reports. But why it's better than anything law schools do right now [is that applicants] don't just get to read their [own school's] alumni reports. They read the reports of all the alumni from all the schools participating in database. I am confident this is the best way to infuse transparency into the opaque clerkship application process and protect the next generation of attorneys against harassment.DL: It sounds really useful. It's a resource I would've wanted to have when I was applying for clerkships. Are you going to require clerks to put their names in? Because obviously, as we know from your case, retaliation can be a problem. But if the clerks are[] anonymous, is there a fear of false reports? And what about if students want to get in touch with somebody for further discussion? Can people be anonymous?AS: Yes, law clerks can report anonymously. There is an option on the last page: would you like to provide your name to students considering this clerkship? We anticipate that the law clerks who face mistreatment will report anonymously, and that is one of many reasons why a lot of law-clerk alumni like this. They also feel an increased sense of anonymity because there are just more people reporting in from more schools in a way. I talk to students and alums from schools that do a post-clerkship survey and they say, I would not fill out my school's, I don't feel sufficiently anonymous, I would fill out yours.Your question about false reports—we do not have a culture of false allegations against judges. We have a culture of fear and gross underreporting. I'm not at all concerned about false allegations. We do obviously have a privacy policy, and law clerks are signing off that they will report truthfully. I am confident they will. I think students and alumni understand this is a desperately needed resource, and if there were false reports or folks misusing the database, it could no longer exist.What you talked about with the clerk-to-student information sharing is often referred to as the “clerkships whisper network.” This is inefficient at best and ineffective at worst, and that the folks who have the information, it often does not get shared with the folks who need. We are not saying you should not reach out to former clerks. What we are saying is that it is an inefficient system, and for law clerks who face mistreatment, they typically do a couple things. They either don't report that back to their law schools, or they take themselves off the list of alumni to be contacted for clerkships, or they do respond to requests, but they are re-traumatized every time somebody reaches out, or they just don't share the full information. Those are all issues we're seeking to combat. Instead of those things, the mistreated clerk can take 10 minutes, fill out our post-clerkship survey once, and then never have to be contacted again. So we think it's better.DL: Again, I think it's a great resource and a great idea. Are you worried about—again, I think this would be unlikely because it's sort of like the Streisand Effect, it would just draw more attention—but are you worried about a judge, say, finding out about this and then suing the Project to try and either unmask this person or get a retraction or, I don't know what….AS: A couple things. This is not a public-access website. The only people who will have access to reading the reports are students from participating law schools and young alums from those law schools. Law clerk alumni get write-only access. They write a report, they can't read them. Part of the privacy policy is that you cannot screenshot this, you cannot share this with folks who do not have access. We are not worried about defamation because we will have Section 230 immunity. We are just posting what people want to write. They can write seven paragraphs, they can write my judge was nice, we're just posting what they write.Judges actually support this. They reach out to me a lot to convey their private support. We're hoping to turn that into public support very soon. Judges understand that positive reviews in the database will bolster not only their reputations, but also their clerkship applicant pools, because what I see is it's historically marginalized groups, women, non-white folks, LGBTQ folks, who face the brunt of mistreatment during these clerkships, and either decide not to apply or they apply less broadly because they just don't have the info they need. I receive a lot of outreach from LGBTQ students asking who are the friendly judges to apply to, who are the not-so-friendly ones to avoid? I have to say we don't have that info yet, but we will. Judges like this. I know it's a disproportionate sample of folks who reach out to say, I support you and I'm a judge, and probably the ones who hate this are going to be quiet. It should be a red flag if any judges are out there publicly opposing this because there must be reasons why they do. And look, the thing is, we are doing what a handful of schools, including your alma mater, already do internally. Judges know which schools have a database. They bring them up and they don't make us think about that because they know that most other employers, in most other professions, are reviewed. Why should they be uniquely not subject to any reviews?DL: What is the status of the database—when will it go live, when will people start to be able to access these reports?AS: The database is a working prototype right now, and our engineers are building the final product. Law clerk alumni will begin reporting into it this winter, and it will go live in spring 2023 for students from participating schools considering clerkships. And for folks who think this is a good idea, if you are a law student or an attorney, reach out to your law school and encourage them to partner with us. Most administrations are considering this right now, and we think student and alumni support is going to make a difference everywhere.DL: I think people should, if they're interested in this resource, let their school know that the school should sign up for it if it hasn't already. Before we go, I was wondering if you could also talk about what the Project is working on in terms of the culture assessment?AS: Yes, we are doing a workplace culture assessment of the federal and state judiciaries. It's a climate survey that's finally going to answer the question, “How pervasive is harassment in the judiciary?” The federal judiciary has just been notoriously unwilling to do this until very recently. [After] five years of advocates poking at them, they finally agreed to do one, but they've specifically not committed to reporting the results publicly, which I think is an enormous red flag.We are surveying both state and federal clerks from a variety of institutions. In addition to standard climate-survey-type questions, we're also asking a section of questions that is particularly important, and it's about law clerk concerns about reporting formally to the judiciary, informally to their law schools. The federal judiciary likes to claim that these issues are not pervasive, yet they have conducted no type of workplace assessment that would show that.Unfortunately, a handful of law school clerkship directors and deans say things to me like, “We're blessed to work with only good judges in this circuit! All our alumni have a positive experience!” That is nonsense. But the dearth of folks reporting back to their law schools right now means that they can kind of disclaim responsibility, so we're seeking to quantify that as well for some challenging clerkship directors and some challenging judiciary officials.DL: When do you expect the assessment to be available?AS: We're not going to send it out until summer of 2023, so a little while. We're trying to focus on the database. We overshot our timelines a bit for getting schools on board, so our full effort goes toward that right now. But I've been heartened by the very positive response from the vast majority of law schools who are very willing to engage, and I appreciate that.It's the right time. Advocates over the past couple years have really laid the groundwork, and now it's time to make changes to protect the next generation of young attorneys. Law schools are working in good faith with me and I appreciate that, but no school is doing an adequate job of protecting their students and alumni against mistreatment right now. We are offering them concrete solutions for radically under-addressed issues, and I hope everybody considers partnering with us this year.We're definitely facing a first-mover problem. Everybody's looking around and seeing who's partnering with us. That's the first question we get from every dean, who else is doing this? Somebody's got to be first. There are a couple of really brave deans and clerkship directors who I'm optimistic will be leaders.DL: I think, just based on having observed the legal profession for so long, that they're like lemmings. Once you get one or two or three, especially if they're big-name schools, you'll get many. You just need—it's like what just happened with these U.S. News rankings and Yale and Harvard—you just need somebody to do it. So you're working on a first mover, but you don't have one just yet?AS: We're very optimistic about a couple. We're not ready to announce them, but we feel very good.DL: Well, in closing, Aliza, I'm so thankful for your time and insight. For people who want to reach out to you to help out with the Project or to tap into resources, what's the best way for them to either contact you or get in touch with the Project?AS: Our website is legalaccountabilityproject dot org, and my email is Aliza dot Shatzman at legalaccountabilityproject dot org. I receive a lot of outreach from current and former clerks. I always appreciate that. Please reach out, learn more, support us. We're recording this the day before Giving Tuesday, so it's a good time to support us.DL: You are a 501(c)(3)?AS: We are working on it. We will be in a few weeks.DL: Excellent. Well, anyway, thank you so much for your time, your insight, and all of the work you're doing on these very important issues. A lot of us really appreciate what you're doing.AS: Thank you.DL: Thanks again to Aliza, who is doing very important work. Reasonable minds can disagree on the details of specific reform proposals, but everyone who cares about the judiciary should care about the workplace treatment of law clerks.As always, thanks to Tommy Harron, my sound engineer here at Original Jurisdiction, and thanks to you, my listeners and readers, for tuning in. If you'd like to connect with me, you can email me at davidlat@substack.com, and you can find me on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, at davidlat, and on Instagram at davidbenjaminlat.If you enjoyed today's episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to Original Jurisdiction. Since this podcast is new, please spread the word by telling your friends about it. Please subscribe to the Original Jurisdiction newsletter if you don't already, over at davidlat.substack.com. This podcast is free, as is most of the newsletter content, but it is made possible by your paid subscriptions to the newsletter.The next episode of the Original Jurisdiction podcast should appear two weeks from now, on or about Wednesday, December 14. Until then, may your thinking be original and your jurisdiction free of defects.Thanks for reading Original Jurisdiction, and thanks to my paid subscribers for making this publication possible. 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In this episode, we welcome 2nd-Year student Yuzu back to the podcast. She talks in detail about her research at the university lab, her upcoming research clerkship in Tokyo, basketball club adventures, and more. Enjoy! Immunology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunology Ise Shrine sightseeing and food https://www.isejingu.or.jp/en/ https://okageyokocho.com/main/en_okage/ https://www.akafuku.co.jp/en/ https://foodinjapan.org/kansai/mie/ise-udon/ Intro music: Cantina Rag by Jackson F. Smith https://freemusicarchive.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/michael-blodgett5/message

VOX humanizes staffing decisions Ever wonder how Vox Makes Hiring Decisions? Well, at least one person isn't quite sure how they work. In this episode of Lexman, we talk to Manolis Kellis, the voice of the folks working on Vox's staffing decisions. Specifically, we talk about his experience during his clerkship and how he can tell whether or not a job is a good fit. Stay tuned to find out what makes Vox different from other companies and what Manolis learned while attending clerkship!

This month I sat down to discuss PCOM's clinical clerkships with Michael Becker, DO, associate dean of clinical education at PCOM and Marla Golden, DO, associate dean of clinical education at PCOM Georgia and PCOM South Georgia. The clinical clerkship programs, led by Dr. Becker and Dr. Golden, provides third- and fourth-year Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine students with the opportunity to examine, evaluate and provide care for patients. The development of these clinical skills helps students prepare for national board examinations and, ultimately, the practice of medicine. It is because of our outstanding preceptors and faculty members that we have an array of clinical education opportunities for our students. I encourage you to take a listen to this episode as we provide tips and advice for students preparing for their clinical clerkships, look back on how clerkships have changed over the years and highlight the importance that these rotations have on our students' education and careers.

episode 4 | different medical school clerkship schedules medical school "clerkships" vs nursing school "clinicals"working different schedules as a nurse from bedside to outpatientwhy I left endoscopy (4/10 hr shifts) for IV nursing (5/8 hour shifts-- "9-5") how we go on dates with our budget in mind When we fit our meals and workouts in, joining a gym, tips for working out after work! Heather's oatmeal recipe saving money by meal prepping, our meal prepping strategytips for building a routine you love:adjusting your schedule/workout routine to your unique circadian rhythm habit stackingdon't resist the mundaneLINKS/RESOURCES:Shop my favorites on my Amazon Storefront https://www.amazon.com/shop/naturally_heatherprotein powder I use (not spons): https://www.kachava.com/collections/allNespresso machine I use https://amzn.to/3TuGtqPour budgetting app: youneedabudget.comOur mattress topper https://amzn.to/3rSmlTn

Megan hosts Dr. Casey Gashti for a high-yield episode covering everything you wish you knew about the different types of dialysis, how they work, and the different means of access. Dr. Gashti is a nephrologist at Rush and renowned medical educator, loved by all medical students, residents and fellows that work with him; after listening to this episode, you'll understand why.Host: Megan KotzinGuest: Dr. Casey GashtiProduced by: Megan Kotzin & Kevin GrudzinskiFollow the team on Twitter:Dr. Casey Gashti - Rush NephrologyA&ORich AbramsLauren SmithNU Internal MedA fantastic resource, by learners, for learners in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Primary Care, Emergency Medicine, and Hospital Medicine.

Megan Kotzin has been hard at work creating a high-yield topic based clerkship review series. This episode provides an approach to hypercalcemia including important things to include on your differential as well as possible management strategies.

This week, we talk about the experiences that law students and recent law grads have during their internships, summer associate positions, and their judicial clerkships. While most of us work very hard to make sure that these (traditionally young) associates and clerks enjoy and learn from their experiences, today's guests understands firsthand that not all of these experiences are positive. Aliza Shatzman, the co-founder of the Legal Accountability Project, talks with us about her judicial clerkship, which essentially derailed her legal career before it even gets started. While Shatzman's dream of becoming a Homicide Prosecutor was taken from her, she took this negative experience and used it as motivation to start the Legal Accountability Project with her WashU classmate, Matt Goodman. The Project's purpose is to “ensure that as many law clerks as possible have positive clerkship experiences, while extending support and resources to those who do not.” The Legal Accountability Project is partnering with multiple law schools to create a post-clerkship survey that allows them to share their experiences (both positive and negative) through a database which will be shared with future clerks so they are better informed on what to expect from the clerkships. The idea is to use the data collected to quantify any issues and to craft effective solutions. AALL Crystal Ball Question: Emily Janoski-Haehlen Our Crystal Ball answer this week comes from the Dean of Akron Law School, Emily Janoski-Haehlen. Dean Janoski-Haehlen stresses the need for more legal skills training to better prepare students for legal practice. As a tie-in for the main interview, she also covers what questions her school asks returning summer associates and clerks and how they use those to help identify what is working and what needs improving. Links Mentioned in this Episode: Statement for the Record (Shatzman's congressional testimony) Clerkship Reporting Database — The Legal Accountability Project Data Collection and Analysis — The Legal Accountability Project Pioneers and Pathfinders: Marlene Gebauer | Seyfarth Shaw LLP Contact Us: Twitter: @gebauerm or @glambert Voicemail: 713-487-7270 Email: geekinreviewpodcast@gmail.com Music: Jerry David DeCicca Transcript available on 3 Geeks and a Law Blog

Rabbi Willig is the Rabbi Dr. Sol Roth Professor of Talmud and Contemporary Halachah at YU's RIETS program. He has been a Rosh Yeshiva at the Mazer School of Talmudic Studies since 1973 and a Rosh Kollel at RIETS. In this recording, Rabbi Willig sat down with us to discuss the best way to deal with shailos that routinely come up for medical students and residents as they transition to the hospital environment. Questions Discussed https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GsMrlqDJYtkgu-NepO_J8ei8vEUZOckn8z2WBpxwNOc/edit?usp=sharing

Have you ever wondered what daily life is like for a summer associate at a law firm? Briefly Legal host Adam W. Childers welcomes 2022 summer associate class members Mylon Smith and Jill Hilton to the Crowe's Nest to discuss their busy six weeks as interns. Adam, Mylon and Jill discuss writing their first legal briefs, to attending late night karaoke happy hours, and even provide practical guidance for businesses wanting to start their own summer internship programs.About Crowe & Dunlevy's Summer Associate ProgramConnect with Crowe & Dunlevy:Website | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn

Atlegang Govuza is an admitted attorney who has been in practice for 5 years. Her main area's of focus have been in public law and previously in intellectual property law. She completed her articles at Adams & Adams and was an Associate in the Trade Mark Prosecution team. Atlegang then left practice to do a graduate program at Toyota South Africa. After her journey at Toyota, Atlegang returned to practice (Kisch IP) as an Associate in Trade Mark enforcement. During her career in the legal profession, Atlegang has also clerked at the Constitutional Court during 2020/2021 for Justice Jafta who has since retired. Thereafter joined Richard Spoor Inc as a public interest attorney. She recently joined ENS as an Associate in Public Law and some mergers and acquisitions matters. Atlegang holds Bcom Law, LLB and LLM (Labour) qualifications, and when she's not practicing law she plays the bass guitar as part of the praise and worship team at church and tutors Grade 8 Math in Alex.  Catch up with Atlegang on Instagram: @atlegang_govuza ___________________________________________ On our young professional/student feature today we are joined by Samukelisiwe Mbuthuma who is a LLB and LLM (Constitutional Litigation) graduate from Umlazi, Durban. She is currently serving her Articles of Clerkship. Other than committing herself to her work, she commits herself to serving the community by writing legal articles about important and relevant topics in an easy-to-understand manner. She has contributed to platforms such as Sister In Law. Furthermore, she has written and translated legal articles into isiZulu which went on to be published in a local newspaper. Her goal was to make the law accessible to members of the community who do not understand English and legal jargon. She strives to continue to contribute towards the development of the law by doing what she loves, writing. ___________________________________________ If you want to be featured on our next episode as a student or young professional, please email your headshot and bio to advice@sisterinlaw.co.za ______________________________________ Visit our website on: www.sisterinlaw.co.za and follow us on Instagram and Twitter @sister_in_law_ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tebello-motshwane/message --- --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tebello-motshwane/message

In this episode we talk with Jason Darnielle of Gower Wooten Darnielle - an Insurance Defense Firm in Georgia and Alabama about how he has built their firm, how he markets their firm and the proper ways to defend a personal injury case We talk about the lessons he learned from working for a Judge and how that shapes his approach to his practice. Jason is an Alabama fan so we learn his perspective on the NC game loss to Georgia and what is next for the Crimson Tide. Finally, we discuss his love for Fly Fishing and proper techniques.

Learn about the change that occurs during your medical education as you transition from your pre-clerkship years to clinical rotations. 1. Transitioning to the Wards 2. Making Time

Today we discuss a common outpatient respriology diagnosis- Obstructive sleep apnea!Written by Dr. Jennifer D'Cruz (Internal Medicine Resident), reviewed by and Dr. Alia Kashgari (Respirology) and Dr. Karen Guekers (General Internal Medicine). Sound editing by Nathan Dupnik (Medical Student). Infographic by Rachel Ahle (Medical Student). 

Welcome to Episode 3 of the Princeton Podcast with Mayor Mark Freda. In this episode, Mark sat down with Bernie Hvozdovic, Princeton's Municipal Administrator. They discussed Bernie's background, his duties as municipal administrator, and the hot topic of town taxes. So without any further introduction, let's join our host, Mark Freda and his guest, Bernie Hvozdovic, for episode 3 of The Princeton Podcast.Bernard Hvozdovic Jr., Esq.The Municipal Administrator serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Administrative Official for the municipality of Princeton and is responsible for management of all of municipal business and carrying out the policies of the Mayor and Council, the Administration, overseeing Princeton's 250(+) employees in a municipality with a population of almost 32,000 residents, responsibilities include but are not limited to:Contract negotiationsImplementing and enforcing administrative proceduresImplementing the policies of Mayor and CouncilPersonnel and personnel policiesPreparation of the annual municipal budget and capital budgetPublic relationsSupervising and coordinating the work of all municipal departments Experience:Bernie served as the Township Manager for South Brunswick Township for 10 years. Prior to being appointed, he practiced as an attorney, often advocating on behalf of municipalities and municipal workers. Administrator Hvozdovic received his Bachelors in Economics from Wake Forest University and went on to Delaware Law School for his JD. Following Law School, Hvozdovic completed a prestigious Clerkship with the Presiding Judge of the Chancery Division-General Equity of the New Jersey Superior Court, New Brunswick. He next worked for a private law firm where he became a Partner, before establishing his own firm. Hvozdovic is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney. He has tried numerous cases to verdict and has argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court. He is admitted to practice in the State of New Jersey, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, US District Court for the District of New Jersey, and the Supreme Court of the United States of America. After being awarded a Certificate of Completion for the Senior Executives in the State and Local Government Program of John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, he also received a Master's in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. He continues to provide pro-bono legal services to children/young adults with special needs and adults with Dementia/Alzheimer's. Certifications:Certificate in Management, Leadership, and Decision SciencesCertified by the Supreme Court of NJ as a Civil Trial AttorneySenior Executives In State and Local Government Program

In this episode of Topping the Curve I interview Janae Staicer, a law clerk for a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Janae also just finished a clerkship on the fifth circuit court of appeals. Throughout the episode Janae talks about steps to take prior to applying to clerkships, and ultimately securing a clerkship:What makes a strong clerkship applicant and what judges look forTips and best application strategies Preparing for interviews and the actual interview processAppellate clerkships vs. District court clerkshipsLongevity of the clerkship process and the actual clerkship experienceJanae goes into depth about all of the above and more! Feel free to reach out to Janae with any questions on her LinkedIn: Janae StaicerJoin other pre-law students in the pre-law school mentorship community and take advantage of courses, guest speakers, freebies, and more! Join here Get your MERCHANDISE HEREClick here to subscribe to the podcast newsletterIntro and Outro Music license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcodeArtist: Mello C,  Title: Pasikolu Support the show

Starting your Clerkship Host Cara Sandberg '12 leads a conversation with Luke Apfeld '18, Noor Hasan '20 and Vikram Swaruup '12 about beginning a federal clerkship. This podcast is for law students and current/future clerks, and anyone interested in what it really means to spend a year working for an Article III judge. The discussion ranges from first-day hopes and apprehensions to clerking-during-covid. Cara, Luke, Noor and Vikram clerked in California, Illinois, Arizona and New York, at both federal district and appellate courts.

A comprehensive guide on how to match to Orthopaedic Surgery, from the start of medical school to match day. This advice can be applied to other countries and all competitive/surgical residency programs, such as Plastic Surgery, Ophthalmology, Dermatology, and General Surgery. This episode is brought to you by our sponsors. Use the discount codes for great deals! MD Consultants: mdconsultants.ca code ORTHOPOD15 MCAT Prep 101: prep101.com/casting code 350CASTINGPOD My recipe for success includes: 1:10-2:45: Deciding on a specialty, having multiple viable career options 2:45-5:20: Identifying a program of interest, networking with residents, building a network: http://canjsurg.ca/64-2-e249/ 5:20-7:15: Building your CV and reputation via networking, how to approach networking conversations, research as an avenue for signalling, targeting the selection committee 7:15-9:30: Clerkship electives, starting at small/community sites, understanding your role, trying to soak everything in. Forming good relationships, taking call, rounding 10:30-15:00: CaRMS: starting early on applications, CV (telling a story, hobbies & interests), filling out the CaRMS application info, personal letter structure, process of perfectionism 15:00-19:45: Interview preparations, getting into the right mindframe, top 10 questions, STAR format, practicing and refining answers, prioritizing creativity, minimizing nervousness, optimizing the virtual space: https://cmajblogs.com/5865-2/ Our sponsors: MD Consultants is the best company that helps with medical school applications review, interview preparations, and CASPer studying. To receive a unique 15% off pre-med packages, visit www.mdconsultants.ca and enter code ORTHOPOD15 MCAT Prep 101 is the most comprehensive prep website for MCAT preparation. They offer the most live instruction hours, targeted CARS prep, and individualized study plans with top tutors to maximize the changes of success. Visit www.prep101.com/casting and enter code 350CASTINGPOD for $350 off MCAT packages

This episode features a discussion with Jay Rothman, Foley's former Chairman and CEO. Jay is a partner in Foley's Milwaukee office focused on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets. Jay reflects on growing up on a working farm, clerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, as well as his corporate practice. Jay also shares his thoughts on the values and culture of Foley & Lardner and provides numerous insights on navigating a legal career.

Originally released in June 2019. For our newest interns at work, this is our second Q&A podcast as a follow-up to part 1. You asked us some questions and we answered!We answer questions about rounding on a team you don't know, attending to an unresponsive patient, a lot about code blues and more!Good luck to our newest doctors on the ward, we're rooting for you!