Judge Jennifer Bailey of the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida in Miami-Dade County Courtesy photo 'Holding Court' with Miami-Dade Administrative Judge Jennifer Bailey: 'I Need Trials'
But, if you're going to settle, please do it well before you hit the courthouse steps: "It's not like in the olden days where if you settled at the last minute we could call the case behind you and tell them to show up in two hours or the next morning," she says.
October 13, 2020 at 07:30 AM
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Welcome to the latest in our 'Holding Court' series where the Lit Daily is exploring the variety of ways the pandemic has changed how the nation's trial courts conduct their business and the things individual jurists are doing to adjust to whatever the new normal is going to be.
Meet Administrative Judge Jennifer Bailey of the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida in Miami-Dade County. Bailey, who has sat on the Miami-Dade bench for nearly 28 years, says she became a judge to "solve problems." She faced one whale of a problem as she took on the administrative judge role of her court's civil division 45 days after Lehman Brothers collapsed. The court's foreclosure docket alone went from an average of about 7,000 per year to 90,000 in 2010 at the height of the mortgage meltdown.
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