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law clerk

noun

  1. an attorney, usually a recent law school graduate, working as an assistant to a judge or being trained by another attorney.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of law clerk1

First recorded in 1760–65
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She's a law professor at the University of Michigan and once worked as a law clerk for former Justice Anthony Kennedy.

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Roger Q. Mason’s play “Lavender Men,” which is having its world premiere at Skylight Theatre, brings Abraham Lincoln back from the dead to relive his relationship with a law clerk to whom he’s passionately if discreetly devoted.

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“I understand my duty as a prosecutor to mean enforcing the law impartially,” wrote Sassoon, a former law clerk for a conservative icon, the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia.

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Hagan Scotten, the lead prosecutor on the case, was an Army veteran with three combat tours in Iraq, a Harvard law graduate and a former law clerk for Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., both appointed by Republican presidents.

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The appeal was written by Jeffrey Wall, the acting solicitor general in the final year of the first Trump administration, and Morgan Ratner, a former law clerk for Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.

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