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Who wants to talk about the history of law clerking? Everybody? Good. Let’s pull up a chair for a little judicial administration history….⚖️🧵 (1/x)
According to the late (Second Circuit (❤️) Judge) J. Daniel Mahoney, the "institution of clerking" (don’t you love that phrase?) began over a century ago. It is largely undisputed that the first jurist to utilize legal assistants was one Horace Gray. (2/x)
Who was Horace Gray and why did he feel the need to employ a law clerk? Well, in 1873 he became the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court of Errors (which could be the subject of its own twitter thread…) and found that his workload had increased considerably.
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