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law clerk
noun
an attorney, usually a recent law school graduate, working as an assistant to a judge or being trained by another attorney.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of law clerk1
Example Sentences
She's a law professor at the University of Michigan and once worked as a law clerk for former Justice Anthony Kennedy.
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.
“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.
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.
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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