Position: Law clerk
Location: Remote
Status: Temporary, summer 2025
Reports to: Executive director of Fix the Court

Position summary
Fix the Court seeks law clerk(s) to support the organization’s work advocating for greater transparency and accountability at the U.S. Supreme Court, other federal courts and some state courts.

A flexible personality, sense of humor and positive attitude are important. Please don’t have a history of embarrassing social media posts.

The position is for summer 2025 and typically maxes out at 20 hours per week, though that’s negotiable. (In other words, it’s a part-time job, and if you have exams in a given week and can’t work, that’s fine.) The pay range is $18/hour to $25/hour based on experience.

Essential responsibilities and tasks
• Conducting legal research on topics of interest to the organization and presenting findings of this research in the form of concise written work products. For examples of Fix the Court’s research, please visit this page
• Organizing and analyzing government documents received via public records requests for relevance to Fix the Court’s campaigns
• Working with other stakeholders in the court reform space — left, right and center — on issues ranging from term limits to access to court records
• Helping to uncover malfeasance in federal and state judiciaries with a focus on judicial junkets, like this
• Writing articles for FixTheCourt.com on SCOTUS and circuit court arguments and opinions of interest and on justices’ out-of-D.C appearances
• Identifying an analyzing cases currently working their way through federal court that are in some way related to Fix the Court’s mission (cf., the cases mentioned here)
• Identifying cases in district and circuit courts ripe for livestreaming requests like these and identifying local stakeholders like this to help make those requests
• Other duties as assigned

Required education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities
• Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required. If you’re in law school: great! If not: fine, too!
• One or two prior experiences in advocacy, research and/or government is encouraged. This could include political advocacy, campaign or public policy research and/or experience on Capitol Hill or in local politics
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Good judgment and attention to detail
• Ability to work quickly and independently and to juggle competing priorities and strict deadlines
• Proven track record for being a self-starter

How to apply
Please email cover letter and resume to info@fixthecourt.com with “Law clerk” in the subject line by April 30. Position begins in May or June, depending on the candidate’s availability.