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JACKSONVILLE CIRCUIT JUDGES CONFERENCE NEXT WEEK

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 Attorney Jay Spechler and Judge Gehl, 2007 Amelia Island ConferenceEveryone knows that judges love their conferences.  They'll travel through rain, sleet, and snow to get there, especially since the budget cuts threaten to make the group self-adulation fests a thing of the past.  Well, now you can add floods to the list.  The Florida Conference of Circuit Judges meets Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of next week in Jacksonville, with many 17th Circuit judges planning to attend.  Flood schmud, it's time to party!We wonder, what will become of the North Wing courtrooms that will be left idle by the conference attendees?  If the North Wing is to reopen next week (that decision is supposed to be made after a meeting on Friday), will county court judges be required to run their dockets from the marbled, dry confines of the abandoned circuit courtrooms?  Will Howard Forman figure out a way to (gasp) outsource the printing of computer generated dockets?  Will the judges who stay behind be required to exercise leadership qualities?From the looks of the pictures and all the old stories, those conferences sure seem like fun...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on December 03, 2008 (boomark / email).