Law-clerk definition

A graduate of law school who is employed as an assistant to a judge for a period of one or two years to gain legal experience prior to assuming long-term employment in the legal profession.
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A law student employed as an assistant to a judge or attorney, especially to gain legal experience during the summer.
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(law) A clerk who assists a judge with legal proceedings. Depending on the court, such positions may be professional careers or may be temporary positions for graduating law students.
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Noun

Singular:
law-clerk
Plural:
law clerks

Law-clerk Sentence Examples

  • He was articled as a law clerk in Edinburgh, and his Elegy on Craigmillar Castle (1776) was printed during his clerkship. In 1781 he removed to London to devote himself to literary work, publishing in the same year a volume of Rimes of no great merit, and Scottish Tragic Ballads.

  • He appears at one time to have been law-clerk to William Prynne.

  • From a law clerk on L.A. Law to working with at-risk teens, Michele Dominguez Greene seems like a woman who has done it all.

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