How to Prevent Harassment in the Judiciary

In this episode, Aliza Shatzman, President and Co-Founder of The Legal Accountability Project, speaks with Corrine Propas Parver from Women Lawyers on Guard about judicial accountability. They discuss Aliza’s personal experience with harassment and retaliation by a former DC judge; the scope of the problem; solutions, including the Judiciary Accountability Act (JAA) (H.R. 4827/S. 2553) and DC Courts-specific reforms; and Aliza’s new nonprofit, The Legal Accountability Project, which aims to ensure that law clerks have positive clerkship experiences, while extending support and resources to those who do not.



Aliza Shatzman is the President and Co-Founder of The Legal Accountability Project, a nonprofit aimed at protecting law clerks from workplace mistreatment and holding judges accountable for misconduct. You can follow Aliza on Twitter @AlizaShatzman or on LinkedIn, or you can reach out to her via email at [email protected]. You can read her Statement for the Record here. Her law journal article with Volume 29 of the UCLA Journal of Gender & Law, “Untouchable Judges? What I’ve learned about harassment in the judiciary, and what we can do to stop it,” details her personal experience with harassment and retaliation by a former DC judge, and argues that the DC Courts should be covered under the Judiciary Accountability Act (JAA) (H.R. 4827/S. 2553). To learn more about The Legal Accountability Project, visit their website.



Corrine Propas Parver is the Vice President of Women Lawyers on Guard, an organization that harnesses the power of lawyers and the law to preserve, protect and defend the democratic values of equality, justice and opportunity for all. Read Women Lawyers on Guard’s research report about sexual harassment in the legal profession, entitled “Still Broken.”

Please note, the positions and opinions expressed by the speakers are strictly their own, and do not necessarily represent the views of their employers, nor those of the D.C. Bar, its Board of Governors or co-sponsoring Communities and organizations.

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