law clerk

noun

: a person (such as a law school graduate) who provides a judge, magistrate, or lawyer with assistance in such matters as research, writing, and analysis

landed a job as a law clerk at the Supreme Court straight out of law school

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Keisha Russell, a constitutional lawyer with First Liberty Institute who has worked as a federal law clerk on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, told Fox News Digital that there is legal precedence for why Sanders has the right to bring a chaplain into the team's locker room. —

Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2024 Fogel started there as a law clerk 11 years ago and does some of everything at the association, which advocates on behalf of the coaches to help with their work conditions, their salaries and some of their charitable endeavors. —

Mike Vorkunov, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024 The solution to the election problem came when Dickinson’s former law clerk, James Wilson of Pennsylvania, introduced the idea of an elector system, whereby a select group of men would choose the President. —

Jane E. Calvert / Made By History, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024 Carrie Severino, a former law clerk to Thomas who runs the conservative Judicial Crisis Network watchdog group, agreed that the travel disclosure omission has the appearance of political bias. —

Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for law clerk