We present in these pages the results of the Law Journal ‘s first-ever survey of New Jersey lawyers about the quality of judging in the Superior Court’s Appellate Division — the court of last recourse for most state litigants.

In years past, we have published profiles of appellate judges that were based principally on samplings of their signed, published opinions, with almost no input from the lawyers in those cases. The articles told much more about the cases than about the judges.