They often keep it neutral and somewhat avoid each other so as not to appear improper. Been to social events, seen it. They have a professional, but adversarial, relationship.
Pretend you’re a lawyer. You want a judge thinking you’re kissing his ass? LOL, that’s a career ending move until you move to another state or jurisdiction. Lawyers have to work with judges all the time and cannot risk even the slightest offense. Judges are way too proud to be bribed over a couple of games of golf.
If that doesn’t sway you, what leverage would a lawyer have over a judge? Guess I’m saying there’s a power dynamic that goes against the lawyer.
Note: I’m not talking about dirt bags like Alito and Thomas. I’d take 2 conservatives like the others over straight up bought and paid for assholes like those two.
tl;dr: The attorney/judge relationship is nothing like the lobbyist/donor/politician relationship.
I can tell you that there are Judges in California’s Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board who welcome ass-kissing & are easily bribed over far less than a couple golf games.
tl;dr: The attorney/judge relationship can be like the lobbyist/donor/politician relationship.
Also, Golfi is a robot that can golf with judges any day & any night.
NW Florida, which one would figure is corrupt as hell. LOL, there was one local attorney, supposedly buddies with judges, his main advertising thrust was that was wouldn’t represent drunk drivers. Went down for drunk driving.
Sorta related, best judge and courtroom I’ve ever been in was here. Judge was a youngish Hispanic dude, prosecutor was a GenX man with long greasy hair and a sorry suit. Not only was the judge insanely fair to defendants, the prosecutor never turned around once. He had no idea what the people he was prosecuting looked like, and mostly recommended leniency.
I know it’s not like that everywhere, not even county to county around here.
They often keep it neutral and somewhat avoid each other so as not to appear improper. Been to social events, seen it. They have a professional, but adversarial, relationship.
Pretend you’re a lawyer. You want a judge thinking you’re kissing his ass? LOL, that’s a career ending move until you move to another state or jurisdiction. Lawyers have to work with judges all the time and cannot risk even the slightest offense. Judges are way too proud to be bribed over a couple of games of golf.
If that doesn’t sway you, what leverage would a lawyer have over a judge? Guess I’m saying there’s a power dynamic that goes against the lawyer.
Note: I’m not talking about dirt bags like Alito and Thomas. I’d take 2 conservatives like the others over straight up bought and paid for assholes like those two.
tl;dr: The attorney/judge relationship is nothing like the lobbyist/donor/politician relationship.
Where are you?
I can tell you that there are Judges in California’s Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board who welcome ass-kissing & are easily bribed over far less than a couple golf games.
tl;dr: The attorney/judge relationship can be like the lobbyist/donor/politician relationship.
Also, Golfi is a robot that can golf with judges any day & any night.
NW Florida, which one would figure is corrupt as hell. LOL, there was one local attorney, supposedly buddies with judges, his main advertising thrust was that was wouldn’t represent drunk drivers. Went down for drunk driving.
Sorta related, best judge and courtroom I’ve ever been in was here. Judge was a youngish Hispanic dude, prosecutor was a GenX man with long greasy hair and a sorry suit. Not only was the judge insanely fair to defendants, the prosecutor never turned around once. He had no idea what the people he was prosecuting looked like, and mostly recommended leniency.
I know it’s not like that everywhere, not even county to county around here.