My colleague @ndelgadillo07 reported on this earlier this year:https://dcist.com/story/19/02/21/thanks-to-the-shutdown-hundreds-of-would-be-lawyers-are-still-waiting-to-get-barred-in-d-c/ …
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Speaking at the annual Judicial and Bar Conference, D.C. Court of Appeals Chief Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby says the 35-day government shutdown almost made holding the bar exam impossible. “There was a question at one point if the exam could go forward,” she says.
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Blackburne-Rigsby also says D.C. courts are facing significant challenges from judicial vacancies. “There’s no way to sugarcoat it,” she says on impact. D.C. courts are much busier than most courts nationwide.
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“The number of opinions the court has been able to issue has decreased by 27%” over the last 5 years, she says. (In D.C Court of Appeals.)
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“This list of judges who has joined our court is much shorter” than the number who have retired, says D.C. Superior Court Chief Judge Robert Morin on judicial vacancies, calling the situation “daunting.”
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Morin says that last year judges in D.C. Superior Court decided 18,000 criminal cases, 9,000 civil cases, 30,000 landlord-tenant cases, and more.
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Morin says most people who come before D.C. Superior Court are not represented by an attorney. He hopes that within 2 years D.C. can adopt a civil Gideon program, or free representation in civil matters like people can get in criminal cases.
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