2026 - Volume 2 - Summer - Flipbook - Page 4
YLD Update
By Katie Rosoff, Michael Mosher & Taylor Brown
-Q&A: Continued from page 1-
A: I think the main thing you glean, no matter what you
do before you become a judge, is you just learn about
yourself a little bit better. Particularly when you’re a
litigator, you become very much an advocate at the very
beginning and you’re just so passionate about the side
you are on, but the longer you do anything, I think you
start to see all sides of it. So, I think it makes you a
more balanced attorney because you can anticipate what
the other side is doing and you have had the opportunity
to grow as a lawyer and person. You can look at a case,
and you can really weigh the case because you have
more experience. When I was at the U.S Attorney’s office, where I was a supervisor before I was appointed, I
really started examining the cases from a more neutral
perspective: Is this something we should be charging? It
was no longer thinking like
