If you’re a judge reading this, take a breath. The goal here isn’t to paint you as the problem. Quite the opposite. The best judges—the ones who believe in the rule of law, who sweat the details and carry the weight of their...more
In appellate practice, there was once comfort in formality. You started with the standard of review, cited black-letter law, and walked the court through a step-by-step application of precedent to facts. But a subtle shift...more