Law Clerk Denied Unemployment Benefits Loses Bid to Revive Claim

A former law clerk to a Pennsylvania county judge failed to convince a state appellate court that he should have received unemployment compensation benefits when his one-year clerkship ended.

The ex-clerk sought unemployment when he finished his term without securing a new job. But the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review correctly determined that he didn’t take reasonable steps to preserve his employment within the county where he clerked, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania said Wednesday in an unpublished opinion.

Edward DiIenno worked for a judge in Franklin County, along Pennsylvania’s border with Maryland. The unemployment system rejected his initial ...