Word: clerkships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After winning a coveted one-year clerkship with a federal appeals court judge, the young lawyer could not get an offer at a black firm she approached in Montgomery; "sexism," she suspects. So she went into partnership with a white male, and when few took her very seriously, she turned on the charm. "I believe one gets more done," she says, "if the approach is down-home country manners...
...When she said that girls did not become lawyers, he replied, "Girls don't, but women do." Klieman looked in on Manhattan's criminal courts and found that "the law is in many ways a lot of theater." After graduation from Boston University Law School and a clerkship with a federal judge, she went to work as a Massachusetts prosecutor. In 1980, in the midst of the U.S. hostage crisis, professional recognition was assured by her convictions of three youths who had killed a local Iranian college student...
...does have the necessary qualifications-University of Southern California undergraduates, Harvard Law School, California District Court clerkship for a year, private practice in San Diego for three years, and a professorship at UCLA Law School for the past five years. Two years ago he was voted the outstanding teacher in the eight UCLA graduate schools, and he has recently written an influential paper on immigration...
...does have the necessary qualifications-University of Southern California undergraduates, Harvard Law School, California District Court clerkship for a year, private practice in San Diego for three years, and a professorship at UCLA Law School for the past five years. Two years ago he was voted the outstanding teacher in the eight UCLA graduate schools, and he has recently written an influential paper on immigration...
...does have the necessary qualifications-University of Southern California undergraduates, Harvard Law School, California District Court clerkship for a year, private practice in San Diego for three years, and a professorship at UCLA Law School for the past five years. Two years ago he was voted the outstanding teacher in the eight UCLA graduate schools, and he has recently written an influential paper on immigration...