This handbook provides an overview of chambers operations and the work of the federal courts.

§ 2.2 of the handbook was revised in December 2017 to include clarifying language regarding workplace harassment (see printable insert pages below).

Judge D. Brock Hornby (D. Me.) prepared this as an outline of introductory remarks he gives to new law clerks when they start work in his chambers. He based this outline on one prepared by Justice Eileen E. Gillese of the Ontario Court of Appeals.

This paper has since been updated and incorporated as Chapter 4 of the Law Clerk Handbook, Second Edition (2007).

A publication that discusses the importance of federal judges' papers as a documentary record of judges' careers and the work of the federal courts.