Hiring attorney or firm
The named lawyer or entity responsible for the work, with the jurisdiction where they are admitted.
Current state
Clerking does not currently operate a member-only job board, accept paid applications, charge student memberships, or promise placement.
Future opportunities may be published only after the hiring attorney, compensation, supervision, jurisdiction, deadline, application method, privacy handling, and last-verified date are documented. Until then, no opportunity is represented as open.
What a published listing will carry
Every listing published on this page will carry the same eight verified fields. The standard exists because the common failure of a legal opportunity board is a posting that reads as an offer while omitting the terms that would make it one.
Compensation
A stated rate or range, the basis for it, and the payment schedule.
Supervision
The person who reviews the work, and the points in the assignment where that review happens.
Jurisdiction
The body of law the work concerns, plus any residency or bar-status requirement.
Deadline
The date applications close, and the expected start window.
Application method
Where materials go, in what format, and what the sender should expect back.
Privacy handling
What happens to an applicant’s materials, who reads them, and how long they are kept.
Last verified
The date a person confirmed the posting still stands.
A posting missing any of the eight stays unpublished.
Three frameworks are live and free
The workflow lab on the main site carries three frameworks. Each is a plain Markdown file, downloadable and adaptable inside an existing practice, clinic, or course.
Research memorandum
Question, jurisdiction, authority table, synthesis, application, unresolved questions, and supervisor review.
Download MarkdownCase chronology
A source-linked event register carrying disputed-fact, privilege, and completeness states.
Download MarkdownContract review issue log
A clause inventory and escalation log for routing questions to the supervising attorney.
Download MarkdownThey follow the same structure a published assignment would use, so the frameworks stay useful on their own terms.
Two practical starting points
For attorneys. Adopt the frameworks with a clerk, extern, or associate already working under your supervision. The research memorandum is the usual entry point, because it surfaces the authority trail and the open questions before a draft arrives. The review gates are written into the framework itself, so the points where your judgment is required stay visible on the page.
For law students. Work the same three frameworks against a closed matter, a clinic file, or a class problem. The structure is the transferable part, and it reads the same way whoever assigns the work. A completed chronology or issue log also shows a supervising attorney how you organize a problem.
A prelaunch inquiry reaches a person directly, and any reply describes the status as it stands that day.