Judicial Externships: The Clinic Inside the Courthouse

A. Judicial Clerks

B. Historical Development

Foreword--Law Clerks: For Better or Worse?, J. Daniel Mahoney, 54 Brook. L. Rev. 321 (1988)

Notes

C. Qualifications and Selection

Clerkships

Notes

D. Responsibilities

Foreword--Law Clerks: For Better or Worse?, J. Daniel Mahoney, 54 Brook. L. Rev. 321 (1988)

Notes

E. Ethical Considerations

1. Confidentiality of Chambers

Some Ethical Considerations for Judicial Clerks, John Paul Jones, 4 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 771 (1991)

Notes

a. Public Comment on Court Proceedings

Model Code of Judicial Conduct, Canon 3B(9) (1990)

Code of Conduct for Judicial Employees (1995)

In re Corrugated Container Antitrust Litigation, 614 F.2d 958 (5th Cir. 1980)

Note

b. Judicial Privilege

In re Certain Complaints Under Investigation by an Investigating Committee of the Judicial Council of the Eleventh Circuit, 783 F.2d 1488 (11th Cir. 1986)

Notes

2. Conflict of Interests

a. Employment and Family Relations

Some Ethical Considerations for Judicial Clerks, John Paul Jones, 4 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 771 (1991)

Deyling v. Flowers, No. 39345 (8th Dist.), 1979 Ohio App. LEXIS 12242

Notes

Oliva v. Heller, 839 F.2d 37 (2d Cir. 1988)

Notes

Simonson v. General Motors Corporation, 425 F. Supp. 574 (E.D. Pa. 1976)

Notes

b. Former Clerks and Externs as Counsel

Fredonia Broadcasting Corp., Inc. v. RCA Corp., 569 F.2d 251 (5th Cir. 1978)

Smith v. Pepsico, Inc., 434 F. Supp. 524 (S.D. Fla. 1977)

Notes

3. Decisionmaking on the Record

Some Ethical Considerations for Judicial Clerks, John Paul Jones, 4 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 771 (1991)

Price Brothers Company v. Philadelphia Gear Corporation, 649 F.2d 416 (6th Cir. 1981)

Note

Exercise

Selected Bibliography

Appendix

A. The Clerk or Extern's Court within the Federal or State System

Structure of the Ohio Judicial System--1996

B. The Work of the Trial Court and the Appellate Court

Chapter Two--Crowded Courts: Limiting and Delegating Judicial Tasks

A. The Perceived "Litigation Explosion"

The Rising Work Load and Perceived "Bureaucracy" of the Federal Courts: A Causation-Based Approach to the Search for Appropriate Remedies, Harry T. Edwards, 68 Iowa L. Rev. 871 (1983)

Notes

B. The Big Case

In re Boise Cascade Securities Litigation, 420 F. Supp 99 (W.D. Wash. 1976)

Notes

C. Responses to the "Litigation Explosion"

1. More Courts, More Judges

2. Doctrinal Decisions

Tidewater Oil Co. v. United States, 409 U.S. 151 (1972)

3. Screening or Summary Disposition Procedures

Jones v. Superintendent, Virginia State Farm, 465 F.2d 1091 (4th Cir. 1972)

Notes

4. Limiting Opinion Publication

Federal Judicial Center Model Rule for Publication (1973)

Note

National Labor Relations Board v. Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 430 F.2d 966 (5th Cir. 1970)

Notes

5. Reducing Oral Arguments

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Rule 34(a)--Oral Argument; Pre-Argument Review and Summary Disposition of Appeals; Statement Regarding the Need for Oral Argument

Notes

6. Delegating Tasks

a. To Judicial Clerks

Foreword--Law Clerks: For Better or Worse?, J. Daniel Mahoney, 54 Brook. L. Rev. 321 (1988)

b. To Federal Court Magistrates and State Court Masters

Exercises

Selected Bibliography

Chapter Three--Judicial Opinions: Decisionmaking and Opinion Drafting

A. Overview

Passion for Justice, Martha Minow & Elizabeth V. Spelman, 10 Cardozo L. Rev. 37 (1988)

Notes

B. Collaborative or "Bureaucratic" Writing

Foreword--Law Clerks: For Better or Worse?, J. Daniel Mahoney, 54 Brook. L. Rev. 321 (1988)

The Use and Abuse of Humanistic Theory in Law: Reexamining the Assumptions of Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship, Charles W. Collier, 41 Duke L.J. 191 (1991)

C. The Opinion Drafting Process

Foreword--Law Clerks: For Better or Worse?, J. Daniel Mahoney, 54 Brook. L. Rev. 321 (1988)

D. Public Perception

Parker v. Connors Steel Company, 855 F.2d 1510 (11th Cir. 1988)

Notes

E. The Elements of An Effective Opinion

Note: Concerned Readers a/k/a Lawyers, Law Students, and Legal Scholars, Plaintiffs/Petitioners vs. Judicial Opinion Writers a/k/a Judges and Judicial Clerks, Defendants/Respondents, No. 90-00001, University of Michigan Law School Journal of Law Reform Division, Argued October 30, 1989, Decided May 1, 1990

Notes

F. The Elements of Less Effective Opinion

United States v. DiFrancesco, 449 U.S. 117 (1980)

Notes

G. Humor in Judicial Opinions

Denny v. Radar Industries, Inc., 184 N.W.2d 289 (Mich. Ct. App. 1971)

Note

H. Writing by Committee: Clerks and Central Staff

Note

Exercises

Selected Bibliography

Chapter Four--The Judge as Docket Manager in an Adversarial System

A. Regulating Civil Discovery

1. Sample Document Request

Notes

2. Civil Discovery Reform in the 1990s

a. The Federal System

Rule 26. General Provisions Governing Discovery; Duty of Disclosure

Notes

b. The State System

Arizona Revised Statutes, Rule 26. General Provisions Governing Discovery; Rule 26.1 Prompt Disclosure of Information

Notes

B. Rocket Docket: Management vs. Litigants' Rights

Martel v. County of Los Angeles, 21 F.3d 940 (9th Cir. 1994)

C. Settlement Conferences

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16

Note

D. Arbitration

DDI Seamless Cylinder International, Inc. v. General Fire Extinguisher Corporation, 14 F.3d 1163 (7th Cir. 1994)

Notes

E. Summary Jury Trials

In re NLO, Inc., 5 F.3d 154 (6th Cir. 1993)

Notes

F. Technology in Docket Management

1. A State Court's Technology Plan

The Environment of the Idaho Courts in 2005

2. A Paperless Trial in Federal Court

United States v. Labovitz, No. CR 95-30022-MAP (D. Mass. July 24, 1996)

3. A CD-ROM Brief in Federal Court 180

Yukiyo, Ltd. v. Watanabe, 111 F.3d 883 (Fed. Cir. 1997)

Notes

G. Managing the Lawyers 183

Judicial Ethics: The Less-Often Asked Questions, Andrew L. Kaufman, 64 Wash. L. Rev. 851 (1989)

Notes

H. Managing Trials

Exercises

Selected Bibliography

Chapter Five--Judicial Qualifications, Selection, and Training

A. Qualifications

1. Non-Attorney Judges

2. A Judicial Resume

Note

Page's Ohio Revised Code Annotated

_ 2301.01 Courts of common pleas

_ 2301.02 Qualifications and term of judge, jurisdiction

_ 2503.01 Judges of supreme court

Notes

B. Selection and Election

Comment, Rethinking Judicial Elections, Kurt E. Scheuerman, 72 Or. L. Rev. 459 (1993)

Notes

C. Appointment

Newman v. Voinovich, 986 F.2d 159 (6th Cir. 1993)

Notes

D. The Results of the Judicial Selection Processes

Demographic Portrait of the Federal Judiciary

Women Judges Currently Serving on State Courts of Last Resort and Intermediate Appellate Courts

African-American Judges Currently Serving on State Courts of Last Resort and Intermediate Appellate Courts

Notes

E. Education and Training

Exercises

Selected Bibliography

Chapter Six--Judicial Ethics

A. Roots of Regulating Judicial Conduct

ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct

B. Recusal: A Reasonable Question of Impartiality/p>

28 U.S.C. _ 4554. Disqualification of justice, judge, or magistrate

United States v. Murphy, 768 F.2d 1518 (7th Cir. 1985)

Notes

In re Complainant as to the Conduct of The Honorable Ronald D. Schenck, 870 P.2d 185 (Or. 1994)

Notes

Exercises

Selected Bibliography

Chapter Seven--Jurisprudence: Legal Philosophy in Action

A. Theories of Statutory Construction

Uniform Statute and Rule Construction Act (1993)

Commentary to Section 19

Exercises

B. Judicial Philosophy in Criminal Sentencing

Mistretta v. United States, 488 U.S. 361 (1989)

Note

The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984: A Practical Appraisal, Stanley A. Weigel, 36 UCLA L. Rev. 83 (1988)

Notes

Exercises

Selected Bibliography