[Editor's note: Joseph W. Bellacosa served the New York Court of Appeals from 1975 to 2000 as chief clerk, counsel, chief administrative judge and associate judge. The Law Journal proudly presents this latest edition in an occasional series in which the retired judge shares reflections from his long tenure in New York's judiciary.]
This story starts out as a routine administrative/managerial subject: a new chief judge of New York, after donning the robe, decided in 1981 to put a new judicial rotation assignment plan into effect.
