Senior Status: An Active Senior Judge Corrects Some Common Misunderstandings
Senior Status: An Active Senior Judge Corrects Some Common Misunderstandings
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高级地位：一位活跃的高级法官纠正一些常见的误解
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2007
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F. Block
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2006 年 9 月 1 日，当我获得高级法官职位时，我已经担任联邦地区法院法官近 11 年了。第二天，我面试了一名三年级法律系学生，面试了一名书记员，在得知我是一名高级法官后，他坦白地承认，他只适用于现任法官。我很快意识到他将“高级”与“老年”联系在一起，除了他们被认为相对古老之外，对现役法官和高级法官之间的差异一无所知。 （他没有得到这份工作。）我向他解释了这些差异——如何以及为何成为一名高级法官，以及作为一名高级法官的生活是怎样的。在这样做的过程中，我在心里记下了，如果我能抽出时间写下来并记住我告诉那个年轻人的话，这可能对律师协会，特别是对法律助理申请者有用。值得赞扬的是，他提出了以下问题，而我则回答了这些问题：
I had been a federal district court judge for almost eleven years when I took senior status on September 1, 2006. The next day, I interviewed a third-year law student for a clerkship who, upon learning that I was a senior judge, candidly confessed that he applied only to active judges. I soon realized that he associated “senior” with “senile” and did not have a clue as to the differences between active and senior judges other than their perceived relative antiquity. (He did not get the job.) I explained the differences to him—how and why one becomes a senior judge and what life as a senior judge is all about. In doing so, I made a mental note that it might be useful to the bar, and especially to law-clerk applicants, if I found some time to put pen to paper and memorialize what I told that young man. To his credit, he asked, and I answered, the following questions: