origins of the clerkship institution -- Birth of an institution : Horace Gray and the lost law clerks / judge as mentor : Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and his law clerks / Isaiah and his young disciples : Justice Louis Brandeis and his law clerks / Benjamin Cardozo and his law clerks / family of Stone law clerks / premodern clerkship institution -- passion for justice : living with and clerking for Justice Hugo Black / Clerking for Justice Hugo Black / Half clerk, half son : Justice Felix Frankfurter and his law clerks / William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. : breaking the color barrier at the United States Supreme Court / Fifty-two weeks of boot camp / Lucile Lomen : the first female United States Supreme Court law clerk / Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr. and his law clerks / Strained relations : Justice Charles Evans Whittaker and his law clerks / modern clerkship insitution -- Clerking for Chief Justice Earl Warren / Charting civil liberties and protecting free expression : learning from and working with Justice William J. Brennan / Justice Arthur Goldberg and his law clerks / Shirt-tales : clerking for Byron White / Thurgood Marshall and his clerks / Good old number three : Harry Blackmun and his clerks / Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. : a personal view by a former clerk / Making work for idle hands : William H. Rehnquist and his law clerks / modern clerkship : Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her law clerks