First, she fired a law clerk for refusing to carry her lunch up a flight of stairs when the elevator was not working.
After earning his undergraduate degree, he worked first as a bank clerk and then as a law clerk.
During the first two stages, the "referendar" works as a law clerk for a civil court judge and for the local office of the public prosecutor.
Sotomayor's law clerks regarded her as a valuable and strong mentor, and she said that she viewed them like family.
Each justice also personally appoints an administrative assistant and two law clerks who serve at the pleasure of the appointing justice and work under his or her direction.
As of 1921, there was also a law clerk and a document room with three staffers.
The ordinary way of entering this particular profession is to become a law clerk.
A law clerk who, in the current county prosecuting system, receives an average of £9,285 will, in the new system, receive £7,952.