Attorney Karen Dowd remembers working short calendar every week in 1991 during her first year as a Connecticut attorney. It was those cases with self-represented people and a new judge each week that made the process unnecessarily repetitive.

Dowd, a partner with the Hartford-based law firm Horton, Shields & Knox, is among a number of attorneys who are critical of the current system in which one-third of the state’s 149 Superior Court judges are annually reassigned.

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