Q&A w/Molly Dwyer

Bloomberg Law has Q+A: Meet the Top Clerk for the 9th Cir.

Q: What are some of the biggest changes you’ve seen over the years?
Molly Dwyer: I’ve seen so many changes. The iPad was one of the greatest things that happened to the court. I could not get these judges to move off paper at all until I gave them all iPads, and now they use documents electronically. It’s great because I would like to move to a place where we don’t require the lawyers to give us paper. I think we’ll get there in the next year or two. The court also went through years where we had tons of vacancies, and we had a backlog of 16,000 cases. Now — since the first Trump administration — we have a full court. Our backlog is down to 8,000 cases, and we’re arguing cases the same year they’re filed. That’s a super positive development.