Every lawyer wants to know as much as possible about a judge’s inclinations to rule one way or the other before a case starts. That knowledge base will soon expand as the Judicial Branch is preparing to launch an electronic evaluation system that will gather more opinions from more lawyers about more judges.
The electronic evaluations, scheduled to start in March, will mark an expansion of the current system. As it stands, lawyers whose cases go to trial or involve hearings lasting an hour or more fill out paper questionnaires in which they rate the presiding judge. That practice will continue, state officials say.
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