Jay Wexler On Clerking For Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Supreme Court Obit Ginsburg — Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is seen in her chambers in at the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court says Ginsburg has died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87.

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September 21, 2020

Updated August 07, 2023

Jay Wexler, law professor at Boston University, spoke with Boston Public Radio on Monday about his time working as a clerk for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, starting in 1998.

"I was a year out of law school, so I learned everything about being a lawyer from her," he said. "They were the lessons that a young lawyer needs to learn early in their career, and I learned them from [Ginsburg] because she was the most careful, precise, serious and brilliant legal thinker that I certainly had ever encountered then and ever since."