An appellate lawyer recently had an opportunity to turn the tables on a panel of judges at the State Bar of Georgia headquarters building in Atlanta for a conference on “Handling Big Cases.”

Michael Terry of Bondurant Mixson & Elmore—who has answered countless questions from panels of judges in oral arguments—did the asking for a change. The April 13 program title was ‘Handling Trials & Appeals More Professionally.” The panel included: Douglas County Superior Court Judge Cynthia Adams, Fulton County State Court Judge Jane Morrison, Georgia Court of Appeals Judge M. Yvette Miller and Court of Appeals Chief Judge Stephen Dillard. When it was over, Terry had teased out some rare revelations from judges about what they really don’t like.