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The New Lawyer Supplement

May 18, 2011

Judicial Externs Learn on a Two-Way Street

Hundreds of law students in California flock each spring, summer and fall to the chambers of federal and state judges to learn the judicial system from the inside out.


By Rebecca Beyer


Daily Journal Staff Writer


When it came time for jurors in the Barry Bonds prosecution to hear the former Giants star's infamous grand jury testimony, a Sports Illustrated writer covering the case reported that U.S. District Judge Susan Illston had chosen two "randoms" to read from the transcript.


Actually, the man playing the part of Bonds was a law clerk. And the man reading the questions was UC Hastings Colleg...

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