THE ROBING ROOM

Judge Alsup is very bright, exceptionally hard-working, highly knowledgeable, and a trial attorney's judge, all of which are superb. My only significant complaint is that his rocket-docket is a forced death march into professional exhaustion. I appeared before him in a highly complex case for product counterfeiting in which we had numerous parties and cross-actions. Incredibly, he made wise, well-informed rulings on key issues on remarkably short notice time after time, even ruling against me on my key affirmative defense (but in a careful ruling, with which I still disagree). I have only praise, except for the unrealistic calendaring, which was just about unmanageable. Otherwise, I highly recommend him. He is uncommonly bright and fair, and he knows how to get to the point. He is unpredictable and mercurial, but overall a very astute federal judge.