I recently retired after 15 years on the bench, with a decade spent in the Civil Part. I settled hundreds into the thousands of cases. I had to. Sitting in a politically ignored southern New Jersey county, we never had a sufficient number of judges.
Settlement was an act of judicial survival. Those experiences have taught me that a settlement is preferable to the risks of trial and that mediation is preferable to a settlement conference with the trial judge. Some judges engaged in settlement conferences; others did not. I, wholeheartedly, did.
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