Courtrooms have long been depicted as models of formality and decorum, but our informal survey of judges suggests that the scene is changing. Our April Question of the Month asked judges if they tho...

John W. Kern III, a former NJC dean and District of Columbia Court of Appeals judge, passed away at his home in Washington, D.C., on January 30. He was 89. Kern graduated from Harvard Law School in...

Our March Question of the Month asked if you could change one thing about being a judge, what would it be? Among the nearly 200 judges who responded, the most popular answers, with about 15 percent of th...