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

Examples of law clerk in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Outside Trump ally Mike Davis, a former law clerk for Gorsuch and one-time Senate Judiciary Committee chief counsel for nominations, declined to discuss his conversations with Trump to the Washington Examiner but has publicly criticized Coney Barrett. —Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 5 June 2025

Born in Boston, Walter had spent years bouncing around the country and into different jobs — salesman, chef, butler, lumberjack, law clerk, and restaurant manager. —Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 15 June 2025

There are unwritten rules for some young law clerks who go to work for federal judges. —Carrie Johnson, NPR, 9 June 2025

Griffith worked as a law firm and federal law clerk while moonlighting in the evenings and weekends as a family and wedding photographer. —Jeff Rose, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1761, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for law clerk

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Legal Definition

law clerk

noun

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