As they joust in the courtroom, most lawyers cannot help wondering what it would be like to preside over the arena from the bench. In San Francisco, as part of an innovative antidote to court congestion, a handful of experienced trial attorneys are getting the opportunity to find out. Acting as judges for a day, or sometimes two or three days, they are helping to attack the backlog of civil cases.
The use of brevet jurists was proposed last year by the American Board of Trial Advocates, an association of Western lawyers. Francis McCarty,...
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