"Why would they want a heavier caseload?
Although a new law aims to provide free lawyers to poor tenants within five years, advocates worry that the city funding for the project is insufficient, and that a heavier caseload could stretch pro bono lawyers and judges too thin.
But court officials say the increased work, heavier caseloads and lack of pay increases are prompting more judges to leave the bench entirely.
In the attorney general's office, which lost more than 140 lawyers and 105 investigators, the remaining staff has to work longer hours to handle heavier caseloads.
Fewer officers means longer response times, heavier caseloads and fewer opportunities to build relations in the community.
At Wednesday's hearing, ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said he was introducing legislation that would eliminate three seats on the D.C. Circuit Court but add a seat to the 2nd and the 11th Circuits, which Grassley argued have heavier caseloads.
These innovations will be key to helping practitioners access research when under the twin pressures of heavy caseloads and limited resources – but they need to be supported by their organisations to do so.
Of course, even a heavy caseload would not have erased her responsibility to report anything amiss in the Jackson household, but her narrowly defined mandate under New Jersey law makes it unclear that anything she saw crossed this line.
Brack had the heaviest caseload of any federal judge in the nation.
His ministry, Mr. Amin said, is doing its best to cope with a heavy caseload.
For instance, throughout the 1990s, the Board carried a very heavy caseload and had a large membership.
