This month, Rogers Joseph O’Donnell partner Allan Joseph took the helm of the American Bar Association’s judiciary panel. Joseph, who has held various positions in the ABA over the years, was tapped by ABA President William “Bill” Robinson to serve a one-year term as chair of the Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary. The committee secretly vets the president’s potential judicial picks and assigns ratings — well qualified, qualified, not qualified — which become public upon nomination. We caught up with Joseph, the chairman of S.F.-based Rogers Joseph’s government contracts practice, by telephone earlier this week.
Q: You were a Ninth Circuit representative on the Standing Committee from 2006 to 2009, how does being chair of the committee differ? Do you wield more influence over the ratings?
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