THE ROBING ROOM

Judge Smith is the worst judge I have appeared before. Most judges try to get decisions right, but understand they can't always be right, and so they usually address counsel with some amount of courtesy. While this attitude is hard to bear when she is right about something, it is extremely difficult on those occasions when she is wrong. She shows no courtesy or respect for litigants or their counsel, and instead shows contempt and is downright mean on occasion. She is, as a number of posters have said, the poster child for why judges should not be appointed for life.