The government had initially intended the 1832 bill to go further and abolish the Six Clerks, but the Clerks successfully lobbied to prevent this.
Following the disappointing box office for red state, Smith said that his follow-up film, Clerks 3, would be his last.
As a result, the Court of Chancery Act 1842 was passed in the same year that abolished the office of the Six Clerks completely.
From an early period, the Lord Chancellor was assisted by twelve Clerks in Chancery, known as the Masters in Chancery.
Each Supreme Court justice hires several law Clerks to review petitions for writ of certiorari, research them, prepare bench memorandums, and draft opinions.
Clerks from both of their firms circled around the trash-talking combatants, as if this were some kind of Wall Street rumble.