Singled Out

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January 24, 2023 6:15 pm

So Judge Jones is now at ARM. He has burned some bridges the last few months with his treatment of all sides and harsh rulings. IMO – maybe just burned a bridge with me.

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January 24, 2023 6:35 pm
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Which Jones?
Steve?
Clive?
Tierra?

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January 24, 2023 6:38 pm
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Dave

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January 24, 2023 7:06 pm
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I heard he was having personal and family issues. I gave him some slack regarding ridiculous rulings that he had made over the second half of 2022 and chalked it up to showing a little grace. However popping immediately up at ARM seems to indicate that the grace was not warranted. I am not hiring him.

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January 24, 2023 7:59 pm
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A R M ?

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January 24, 2023 9:03 pm
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His "harsh rulings" from the last few months probably stem from the fact his clerks were the absolute worst!

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January 24, 2023 9:48 pm
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1:03 is correct. He was a fine judge but had terrible law clerks over the years that made dealing with Department 29 to be a nightmare.

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January 24, 2023 11:17 pm
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Don't the judges hire their own law clerks?

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January 24, 2023 6:56 pm

Why did Daveid Jones leave the bench. He just got retained. Appointed in 2017 ran and then got reelected. I don't get it. Any insight.

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January 24, 2023 7:03 pm
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@10:56a – My cynical answer is he just wanted to see that he could get elected again for pride/bragging/narcissistic reasons.

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January 24, 2023 7:12 pm
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To maintain Senior Judge eligibility?

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January 24, 2023 8:25 pm

These blogs are the first I even heard about concerns with the judge's demeanor, or the rationality of his rulings.

Anecdotally speaking, my colleagues have only shared positive opinions of his performance and temperament.

It's a shame that when he chooses to retire very prematurely to address serious family concerns, that rather than wishing him well, he is now being attacked.

I can think of several judges who deserve to be harshly and publicly criticized. But he is not one of them, even if he did, in the eyes of some, make an occasional wrong call (like all judges do).

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January 24, 2023 8:41 pm
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Could it be that people didn't feel safe in sharing their opinion until now? I don't know this judge, but if people always seemed to be saying nice things until he retired, it doesn't automatically mean those who are critical aren't telling the truth.

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January 24, 2023 9:10 pm
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Judge Jones was one of our better judges. I appeared in front of him recently and saw nothing different than what I had seen in the past. Really a huge loss to have him leave the bench. I wish him well. I admire him for putting his family first. Good man.

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January 24, 2023 9:30 pm
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I thought Davy Jones passed away 10 years ago. "I'm a Believer." But I guess maybe "our" Judge Jones is a different person.

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January 24, 2023 9:50 pm
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Certainly you can understand the questions when someone retires allegedly due to a family emergency but immediately shows up at ARM and is soliciting being hired as a mediator/arbitrator. Same thing with Abbi Silver.

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January 24, 2023 9:33 pm

$3.5 million. They should start taking it out of the pension fund.

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January 24, 2023 9:52 pm

Dear Departments 14 and 24….. I don't mind really that you are not present in your courtrooms. Except when you demand that counsel turn on their cameras for hearings while you do not have your camera(s) on, it comes across as really hypocritical.

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January 24, 2023 11:05 pm
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There was an issue with an attorney having a paralegal appear and argue cases with the camera off. Not one of those departments but my guess is that all the judges are aware of the issue.

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January 24, 2023 10:18 pm

We really need to come up with a better source of law clerks than recent graduates taking the bar exam. They have no idea what they are doing and our judges actually depend on them in spite of this fact. I have had motions where it was readily apparent through the flustered judge that the bench memo prepared on the issues was not only substantively wrong, but that the clerk had failed to grasp what the issue even was. Combine this with a judge that has no experience in civil matters and it is the blind leading the blind. We absolutely need career clerks with actual experience. This would help diminish the harm that terrible judges can do.

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January 24, 2023 10:44 pm
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I'm torn on this. I agree that judges, especially newer judges would really benefit from longer term clerks who actually know some law. That said, I clerked and it was a hugely beneficial experience before practicing. Closing off that experience to first years would mean all new grads are relegated to actual practice, which we all know doesn't usually end up well except under the best mentorship. I appreciate that judges want to give newly minted lawyers (but not The Newly Minted Lawyer) the benefit of a year or two's worth of experience calling balls and strikes before going out to practice. But it's incumbent on the judges to actually vet that the clerks know the bare minimum.

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January 24, 2023 10:50 pm
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I heartily and unreservedly concur with 2:18. I have thought that same thing from the moment I first saw how the sausage gets made.

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January 24, 2023 11:18 pm
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Here is the problem….. You have a 1st year bar passer (and in quite a few cases people who did not pass the bar) getting "the benefit of a year or two's worth of experience calling balls and strikes before going out to practice." I don't want you calling balls and strikes because you don't know baseball yet. This was precisely the problem with Jones was his law clerks were dreadful.

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January 24, 2023 10:28 pm

RIP David Krieger.

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January 24, 2023 10:32 pm
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What happened?