law clerk

American  

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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Etymology

Origin of law clerk

First recorded in 1760–65

Example Sentences

Founder Shlomo Klapper, a Yale law graduate who worked as a law clerk for a New York federal appeals court, said he saw a business opportunity to target court systems while many of his competitors have focused more heavily on marketing AI products to law firms.

From The Wall Street Journal

Among its staff is Erin Hawley, a former law clerk for Chief Justice John Roberts and the wife of Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sauer is a longtime conservative attorney with an elite pedigree, earning his law degree from Harvard Law School and serving as a law clerk for the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

From Slate

She's a law professor at the University of Michigan and once worked as a law clerk for former Justice Anthony Kennedy.

From Salon

“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.

From Los Angeles Times