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Female judges reflect change in attitudes
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Anonymous | 8:33 a.m. Jan. 2, 2009
What the 4th District Bench really needs is a first class BUSINESS attorney who
has made partner at a top notch firm and has substantial experience litigating
business matters. Criminal experience is not business experience. Gender
doesn't matter, but experience does.
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Another viewpoint | 5:11 p.m. Jan. 2, 2009
I agree with "Anonymous" that attorneys appointed to the Fourth
District Bench should be experienced, but very few attorneys appointed to be
district court judges have experience in all matters they will be asked to
handle. Besides being experienced in a particular field or several fields of
law, I believe an attorney appointed to be a district court judge should be able
to learn quickly, be decisive, and objectively listen to all sides of a matter
before making a decision. A judicial appointee also should be committed to
following the law, even though the resulting decision might be unpopular.
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Utah Bar Favors Males | 10:50 a.m. Jan. 7, 2009
We'll know women have arrived in the legal profession, in Utah, when the
Utah State Bar Directory stops its current practice of listing all the males
with a certain last name before any of the females with that last name.
Currently, each attorney is listed as Mr. or Ms., so that the alphabetical
listing for someone named Anna Smith ("Smith, Ms. Anna") would not
appear until after each and every Mr. Smith, be it Adam, John, Martin, or
Wursten.
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