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References
Mar 19, 2014 19:49:28 GMT -5
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Post by mch135 on Mar 19, 2014 19:49:28 GMT -5
Can someone tell me where I can find the ALJ Candidate Personal History form that was posted from 2011? Thanks. I can't figure out how to link to the post, but it's on page two of the thread titled "for those of you who like to think ahead" that is in the polling section.
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Mar 19, 2014 19:49:44 GMT -5
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Post by mch135 on Mar 19, 2014 19:49:44 GMT -5
Can someone tell me where I can find the ALJ Candidate Personal History form that was posted from 2011? Thanks. I can't figure out how to link to the post, but it's on page two of the thread titled "for those of you who like to think ahead" that is in the polling section.
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Post by mamaru on Mar 19, 2014 20:05:32 GMT -5
Thanks all. It is a touchy situation. I am going to wait until I see the actual form and not make assumptions, but your comments give me something to think about. Don't want to get ahead of myself.
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Post by JudgeRatty on Mar 19, 2014 20:16:11 GMT -5
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Post by minny on Mar 19, 2014 20:25:03 GMT -5
I have a problem with the judicial references, too. It has been a decade since I practiced before state and federal court judges that I used appear before regularly and most of them have retired or now sit on appellate courts (and, therefore, are not likely to give a reference to anyone who might still appear before them). I also moved out of the state that I formerly practiced in and, after moving had very few hearings in courts. I have had many administrative hearings before the EEOC and MSPB in recent years, but our area goes straight down the center swath of the country from the Canadian border to the Mexican border, so I have been before many judges once and maybe one or two judges twice. Arbitrations, however, are a different story. There are only two panels and a handful of arbitrators that I deal with fairly regularly. Do you think substituting arbitrators who are attorneys (some are not) would suffice for judicial references?
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Post by sandiferhands (old) on Mar 19, 2014 23:20:01 GMT -5
I sympathize with your dilemma, Minny. The restrictive categories of "judges, adversaries, and legal community" reference choices isn't realistic for someone with your practice history.
I'm a newbie also, and struggling (to a much lesser degree than you) with choice of references should they be needed. But, reading this board, one thing has become clear to me: I will err on the side of using lawyers I KNOW will give me good references, rather than taking a chance on someone even inadvertently making a harmful statement because I chose that person trying to fit him/her into an arbitrary category.
As I understand it there will be an outside contractor contacting the references and recording responses to be reviewed (how often? how soon? how closely?) by whom? I can't see anyone who is accomplished enough to be judging this contest getting bent out of shape over a good candidate with a good interview and great references because they used two judges and a qualified arbiter.
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Post by hal3000 on Mar 20, 2014 18:00:09 GMT -5
From past experience it is my understanding arbitrators are fine as long as they are attorneys.
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Post by privateatty on Mar 20, 2014 20:01:16 GMT -5
I have a problem with the judicial references, too. It has been a decade since I practiced before state and federal court judges that I used appear before regularly and most of them have retired or now sit on appellate courts (and, therefore, are not likely to give a reference to anyone who might still appear before them). I also moved out of the state that I formerly practiced in and, after moving had very few hearings in courts. I have had many administrative hearings before the EEOC and MSPB in recent years, but our area goes straight down the center swath of the country from the Canadian border to the Mexican border, so I have been before many judges once and maybe one or two judges twice. Arbitrations, however, are a different story. There are only two panels and a handful of arbitrators that I deal with fairly regularly. Do you think substituting arbitrators who are attorneys (some are not) would suffice for judicial references? Yes. But I would limit it to attorneys and throw in a few federal court judges if you can. A letter that explains yourself preceded by a respectful phone call may well do the trick as to the latter, IMO.
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Post by westernalj on Mar 21, 2014 13:36:20 GMT -5
On the older reference forms they ask for the RCALJ and HOCALJ if your work is "SSA affiliated work." Isn't OGC work SSA affiliated? If so, should we just ignore the RCALJ and HOCALJ request, since it isn't relevant?
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