How does your judge stack up?
July 8, 2008
Ever wanted to publicly, but anonymously, praise or shred Maryland’s judges?
Move over sites like RateMyProfessors.com (and the professors’ response, rateyourstudents.blogspot.com) — The Robing Room has come to Maryland.
The 2-year-old site, which began as a venue for attorneys to rate federal judges, is now soliciting ratings of state judges. Since its inception, the site has logged 10,000 posts critiquing the nation’s roughly 1,100 federal judges, according to founder Nicholas G. Kaizer, a Manhattan litigator.
Kaizer, vice president of North Law Publishers Inc., of which the Web site is an affiliate, said he started with the big states, like California and New York. As a result of certain technical considerations, Maryland happens to be one of eight states — along with the District of Columbia — currently on the site.
The Robing Room will eventually have a site for each state’s judges and possibly a site for international judges as well, Kaizer said.
While most of Maryland’s federal judges have been rated and commented on — the district’s Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul W. Grimm has been rated the best judge in the country — the state judges’ rating page is empty.
Also, I wonder if the president in charge of filling U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte’s seat will take note of comments that call Grimm “the best man I know” and say he “deserves to be elevated.”
BRENDAN KEARNEY, Legal Affairs Writer
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This is a very healthy development given the insular nature of judging. But, if it’s anything like “RateMyProfessors.com” it will attract the extremes on both sides–those who love a judge and those who hate him/her. Such postings may lead to a more systematic way of evaluating judicial performance and that would be a good thing.