After the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, the courthouse, about a dozen blocks from ground zero, was shut down for about two weeks, and even now, it is still not handling its docket of cases with the same efficiency as before the attack.
Today there are four empty seats, a vacancy level that could harm the court's ability to handle its docket of complex cases.
Senior government lawyers, law professors, federal judges and beginning associates at major firms all earn more than the $136,700 salary of New York trial court judges handling a growing docket of cases.
Even so, Frederick is just one lawyer handling a handful of Supreme Court cases a year; corporate firms account for more than half of the court's docket.
On Dec. 2, the court docket showed an affidavit by Debra Brown Steinberg, one of the lawyers at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft representing M.I.T. and Convolve, asking the magistrate handling the case to allow the introduction of Mr. Galloway's testimony.
It allows you to: (1) choose your arbitrator, (2) proceed immediately instead of waiting for a matter to appear on a court docket, and (3) handle the matter in an efficient yet often less formal manner.[5] Any constraints imposed upon handling disagreements through arbitration should already be clearly stated in your contract.
But these days there is a particularly vexing category of cases on his docket: Judge Richardson handles all of the cases in the Bronx when the city's child welfare agency has removed children from their homes because, in essence, one of their parents has been the victim of domestic abuse.
Proposition 66 would force courts to process death penalty cases more quickly, but opponents of the measure say there are not enough lawyers with the ability to handle the cases to move cases off the docket.
"While some of the political hires have performed competently and a number of others have left, the net effect of the politicized hiring process and the brain drain is an attorney work force largely ill-equipped to handle the complex, big-impact litigation that should comprise a significant part" of the division's docket, the transition report said.
