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- <text id=90TT3049>
- <title>
- Nov. 12, 1990: Here Come De Judge
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 12, 1990 Ready For War
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 23
- Here Come De Judge
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- <body>
- <p>By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- <p> Bad behavior at the bar? With unusual candor, Supreme Court
- Justice Anthony Kennedy says lawyers are not measuring up: "We
- see shoddy practice in every court in the country, including the
- Supreme Court of the United States. We are sometimes very
- disappointed in the quality of oral arguments." This verdict
- need not be final. Kennedy sees an appeal in one of his favorite
- projects: the American Inns of Court, launched in 1980, which
- now has 8,000 members, including about 25% of all federal
- judges. The idea is that experienced attorneys should pass on
- their skills to neophytes. "We teach these young lawyers that
- you must never go into court, even for a three-minute motion,
- without being prepared." And does such preparation matter?
- "Don't ever think for a moment that advocacy doesn't make a
- difference. It does. It makes a difference in the Supreme
- Court."
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- </body>
- </article>
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