They decided to create The Robing Room, a website that has 65,000 to 85,000 views monthly.
“Our reason for being is to provide a forum for lawyers and non-lawyers to discuss their experiences with judges, with the dual expectations that this airing of views will both inform our readership and improve the judiciary,” Kaizer told me.
“You might be interested to know that many judges have set alerts so they become aware of any new reviews. We also provide an anonymous and safe place for users to connect with one another and hold a dialogue concerning the judiciary offline.”
(Judge Coats happens to have one of the highest amounts of comments for the county, many rather critical.)
Kaizer explained to me that the site has been fully populated with 94 federal district courts, containing district judges and magistrates, and 12 federal courts of appeal. It also has judicial listings for all 50 states containing more than 3,000 counties. There are thousands of judges, magistrates and commissioners listed. It is constantly being updated and they host over 117,000 judicial reviews and ratings on the state sites and 35,000 on the federal site.
