RA job at 1st DCA

The Court of Appeal, First Appellate District in San Francisco is accepting applications for a central staff attorney vacancy. A regular full-time Appellate Court Attorney position will be staffed at Level B, Level C, Level D, or Senior. Minimum qualifications: active CA bar membership and 2 years of post-bar experience. Experience in criminal and/or civil appellate practice is desirable. Candidates should possess superior research/writing skills and the ability to present statements of fact, law, and argument clearly and logically. Please see the job announcement #6228 for specific levels and salary ranges. For information and an application call 415-865-7369 or visit: www.courts.ca.gov/careers. To ensure earliest consideration, please apply by May 24, 2024.

And speaking of dreams, the Recorder has With No Drama and a Few Jokes, Justice Goodwin Liu Tells USC Law Grads to 'Live Your Dreams' -- Liu offered a mix of lighthearted remarks, inspirational anecdotes and an analysis of how things have changed since he gave his first commencement speech at the school in 2012.

The NLJ has Sotomayor, Speaking With Civics Students, Eyes AI's Impact on Law -- “We have two wars going on,” Sotomayor said at the New York State Bar Association’s civics convocation. “We have problems with health and education. We have difficulties in our political realm. We have not created a world that I had wanted to create when I was your age.”

• Sotomayor is a board member of iCivics, a nonprofit organization that promotes civics education and was founded in 2009 by the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Sotomayor advanced one of its priorities, urging all schools to offer social media literacy. The justice also encouraged the students to gain more of their information from firsthand sources, rather than repeat commentators or journalists.
• She said the hardest part of being a Supreme Court justice pairs with the realization that a court case isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition.

Law360 has Alito Warns Freedoms Of Speech, Religion Are In Danger -- Justice Alito told the 2024 graduating class of the Franciscan University of Steubenville in eastern Ohio that they were lucky to have attended "one of the few" universities left in the country that supports reasoned debate. Outside of the private Catholic university, that wasn't the norm, he claimed.

Bloomberg Law has Kavanaugh, Thomas Raise Concerns Over Shadow Docket Pressure; the Wall St. Journal has Justice Brett Kavanaugh Wants More Cases—but Don’t Rush -- Kavanaugh said the court’s case load is too light, about 60 arguments a year in recent years rather than the 75 he believes the justices should be handling. From the late 1950s through the early 1990s, the court often heard 150 or more cases annually, but the number has steadily declined since.

Law360 has Calif. May Allow Judges To Work Remotely In Civil Matters

• California's Judicial Council next week will consider amending court rules to allow judges to preside remotely over civil proceedings from a location other than a courtroom.
• The proposed rule, devised by the Judicial Council's Trial Court Presiding Judges Advisory Committee, would apply only to presiding over civil cases, not criminal cases or juvenile proceedings. It also would not apply to appellate courts.

The DJ has Steven Kimball's An honor to dream not of -- Being nominated to the US Supreme Court is not an honor worth pursuing, as it involves lying, politicization, and elitism.