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The Law Journal's sixth cyclical survey of New Jersey lawyers about the quality of judging on the state's trial bench. Presented are vicinage-by-vicinage ratings of judges in nine evaluative categories, along with biographies of the judges included.

Our first-ever survey about the quality of judging in the court of last recourse for most N.J. litigants, compiled in 2010.

The Law Journal's fifth cyclical survey of New Jersey lawyers about the quality of judging on the state's trial bench. Presented are vicinage-by-vicinage ratings of judges in nine evaluative categories, along with biographies of the judges included.

Daniel J. O'Hern, an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court for 19 years, saved memos from his colleagues, letters from Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz to members of the Court and other memorabilia that form the foundation for his book, What Makes a Court Supreme, which was completed shortly before his death on April 1, 2009.

The Law Journal's survey of federal court practitioners about the judges, magistrate judges and bankruptcy judges of the District of New Jersey. The articles and charts quantify the results of a questionnaire, asking lawyers to rate judges on a 1-to-10 scale in 10 distinct categories of ability. Biographies of the judges are included.

New Jersey's highest court, a vanguard for social change in the 1970s and 1980s, may have lost a little of its activist bent. But a new cast of justices with variant ideologies promise to be just as persnickety with trial courts and just as unlikely to defer to the legislature in seeing that justice is done.

The New Jersey Law Journal presents the third edition of the Guide to the Superior Court Appellate Division. Based on interviews with appellate practitioners, this guide provides a snapshot of each of the 34 judges in the Appellate Division whose rulings comprise a corpus of law that guides civil and criminal practice.

We present in these pages the results of the Law Journal's fourth cyclical survey of New Jersey lawyers about the quality of judging on the state's trial bench. We undertake the survey because without it there is no publicly available data about the comparative strengths and weaknesses of judges, their demeanor or their potential biases, all of which are highly relevant to users of the courts.