Although this issue might be academic while we're eating our lunch on a private park bench, the consequences of multiplying and expanding Pops affects everything from our personal psyche to our ability to protest.
Parents bring small children for family outings, lovers steal private moments on benches by the water, and idle young men with no role in the new China pass the days playing cards.
Notions of private practice and the bench have crossed his mind.
More often, Anthony saves the criticism for more private moments, on the bench or in the locker room.
Ed Murnane, head of the ICJL, claims there is an "unwholesome relationship" between judges and trial lawyers, who move from private practice to the bench and back.Like many other states, Illinois elects (rather than appoints) its judges.
Mr. Malvo appeared to be participating actively in his defense, conferring frequently with his lawyers and joining them at the bench for private conferences, drowned out by a white-noise machine, with the judge.
He has spent more time on the bench than in private practice.
Judge Holwell, who has since left the bench and entered private practice, found that the government acted with "reckless disregard for the truth" by not disclosing "clearly critical" information about the scope of the S.E.C. investigation.
It is the rest of Mr. Mukasey's record on the bench and in private legal practice that has drawn some initial skepticism from conservative groups about his nomination to lead the Justice Department.
In private practice before joining the bench, he represented some of his hometown's most showy personalities, including the lawyer Roy M. Cohn and the socialite Claus von Bulow, and its powerful institutions, including both The Daily News and The Wall Street Journal.
