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[LouisDesyjr]

Assigning judges

While in theory the assignment of judges within practice areas, is supposed to be whoever is available and random, there are situations where whoever is in the clerks office could effect the schedule and I suspect even the assignment. As an example, one of my classmates, shortly after they started practicing in MA, made the horrible error of yelling at one of the Boston Municipal court clerks one day. After that she was basically 'all done' in that court. Any cases she was involved in took forever to be scheduled and it was so bad that she ended up taking work in the Springfield area. She ended up driving the two hours each way from Boston to Springfield for a few months until she was able to move to the other end of the state.

It would not surprise me if the clerk could have also arranged to assign judges that he thought would be more likely to be on the other side, as far a judicial philosophy, on what ever case she finally got into court.

Louis J. Desy Jr.