Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being in holy orders.
- noun Scholarship; erudition.
- noun The office or business of a clerk or accountant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun State, quality, or business of a clerk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or business of a
clerk - noun law : A
temporary job of assisting ajudge in writing legal opinions, generally available to abeginning attorney for one to two years.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the job of clerk
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Examples
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A Supreme Court clerkship is now an “internship” ... because Kagan had one, I guess.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Preliminary Reflections on the Kagan Nomination 2010
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I guess he simply doesn’t care if that clerkship is occupied by a racist.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail 2010
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I guess he simply doesn’t care if that clerkship is occupied by a racist.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail 2010
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Yes, her getting a prestigious judicial clerkship is exactly the same as being sent to one of Stalin’s gulags.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Be Careful. Trust No-One. Shut Up. 2010
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“I guess he simply doesn’t care if that clerkship is occupied by a racist.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail 2010
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Given that his son was not EIC at Boalt of the Law Review and Boalt unlike Harvard, Yale, or even Chicago is not known as a clerkship powerhouse, it is likely Kmiec's son received preferential treatment.
Doug Kmiec, conservative lawprof, counsel to conservative presidents, endorses Barack Obama. Ann Althouse 2008
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Based on this, and knowing that a clerkship is a limited-opportunity only the best!
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The clerkship was a great learning experience, and Oklahoma was ... let's just say it gave me a lot of stories to tell.
July 2006 2006
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The clerkship was a great learning experience, and Oklahoma was ... let's just say it gave me a lot of stories to tell.
TaxProf Blog: 2006
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For me, the value of a clerkship is the experience, and I am trying to assess that.
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