Tucson, Arizona
The Next Week
“All rise, the honorable Judge Susan Logan presiding,” her bailiff announced.
The attorneys stood up while the judge entered in a typical black robe.
After striking the gavel on the sound block, the judge announced, “This is the time set for the status conference in the Jackson Matthews et al. v. Analysis, Inc. case. Counsel before we start, I want you to know that instead of using a random draw to reassign this case after the unfortunate passing of Judge Gutierrez, as senior judge of the Tucson division, I chose to assign the case to myself. Will that be an issue?”
Judge Logan was a no-nonsense federal judge who was a criminal attorney before serving on the bench. She first clerked for the Arizona Supreme Court right out of law school and then served as
