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Role of Judges and Lawyers in the Legal System
The retired Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger was the longest serving chief justice in the United States of America during the 20th century. In the year 1969 he was nominated by President Nixon. He took leadership after judicial committee of the senate approved him to the high court. He retired in the year 1986. People remember him as a strong champion of judicial reforms. He established a tool to end segregation called busing, he also wrote his opinions that were used to defined obscenity legally. During his term he strengthened separation of powers in government. He also played a role that would see …show more content…
Judge wore white wigs, black robes in the lower courts and in the higher courts wore red robes with black markings. This has all changed today as both state and federal courts judges have the freedom to select their own court room dresses. Moreover they choose plain black robes and in some instances female judges sometimes add white collars. There are no rules that dictate what judges and justice must wear in the bench but most of them wear them in a spirit of tradition. This symbolizes that the judges are tasked to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law. The Supreme Court is k now to have a tradition of wearing robes before the listening to oral arguments. They first go to justice robin room, where every justice has a locker wear their robes with assistance of attendants to fasten their …show more content…
They include mediation at times known as conciliation in this process the mediator a neutral third parties help the parties with dispute resolve their own disputes. The advantage of this procedure is that they face no appeal and delays parties are able to continue moving forward. Mini trials, in this setup lawyers and experts present a condensed version of the case to the mangers of the two parties. Arbitration resemble the traditional court system in that the third parties hears both parties arguments and finally imposes a binding decision that is enforceable by court. This method has mostly being used in labor management disputes. Summary jury trial they help the parties assess weakness and strength of the augments this facilitates settlement of disputes. The finally have settlement conferences and early neutral evaluation.. There are advantages of using ADR. Unlike the traditional court system that refers to past mediations looks toward the future. They saves a lot of money, this is because the produce early settlement this reduces the expenses that court would have used and participant would have incurred like attorney’s fees. It saves time as some complicated dispute that lawsuits would have taken years to resolve ADR can resolve them in shorter period of weeks or few months. Through ADR parties are able to express their own concerns and interest while in