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What is a clerkship?

What is a clerkship? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The state or business of a clerk
  2. (law): A temporary job of assisting a judge in writing legal opinions, generally available to a beginning attorney for one to two years.
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Over the weekend I learned that Mrs Bailey has been offered the clerkship of Keighley Town Council.
Previously, law was learned in the course of service, the first rudiments possibly in private clerkship to some official.
At age 18 or 19 he obtained a clerkship in the privy seal office in London, which he retained intermittently for about 35 years.
In my 3rd year, a group of four of us were sent on a clerkship to Alexandria.
The clerkship shapes the students into doctors who closely resemble the other physicians on the teaching teams.
I recently completed a year's clerkship in a federal court of appeals.

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