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Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Ind. Courts - "Tinder joins the big leagues with seat on 7th Circuit"
Maria Kantzavelos has this article in the March 5th Chicago Lawyer. A few quotes from the lengthy article:
After 20 years on the federal bench in Indianapolis, in December [John Daniel] Tinder went from being the next in line for the position of chief judge of the district to becoming the “tail of the dog” as the most junior of the judges on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.“It’s an exciting time for me, personally, to go through this,” Tinder said recently from a vacant office in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. “Here I am at 57, approaching 58. Starting a whole new phase of a career is really energizing. It’s something that’s hard to stop smiling about.
“There’s no particular magic to it, but you can imagine after doing something for 20 years and being very comfortable in doing that and enjoying that, and to walk away from that and do something that might even be more interesting and more enjoyable — it’s a great opportunity.” * * *
Lawyers familiar with his work describe an expansive body of written opinions and scholarship that is meticulous and thorough. They said practitioners who appear before an appellate panel that includes Tinder can expect respectful, but pertinent questions from him.
“He’s not going to bully lawyers at oral arguments,” said Kathleen DeLaney, managing partner of the Indianapolis litigation firm DeLaney & DeLaney who tried three cases before Tinder in district court.
She offered this advice to practitioners appearing before him: “Don’t run from his questions.”
“If he asks a question, he wants to know the answer,” DeLaney said. “He won’t ask questions for the purpose of interrupting a lawyer’s flow or sending him off on a red herring. He will be asking questions designed to illicit [ILB - sic] information he thinks is important for the ultimate decision.”
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 5, 2008 03:19 PM
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