Interview: Judge Colleen McMahon, SDNY
02 April 2012
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Karen Bolipata, New York
New York judge Colleen McMahon tells Karen Bolipata and a room full of judges why she went to law school, how she approaches patent cases, and why all judges need her invention, the e-Clerk
New York judge Colleen McMahon recently unveiled her judicially-themed invention to one of the largest gatherings of the federal judiciary in existence.
“There is a crying need for the e-Clerk,” said McMahon of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. “Federal judges are facing unprecedented case loads.”
The app, she added, would be a significant improvement over the so-called clerk 1.0 – its human counterpart who since time immemorial has helped judges by “picking up lunch, delivering case files at odd hours of the night, (and) editing preschool applications for the judge’s grandchildren”.
McMahon, for the most part, was joking. As the keynote speaker at the New York Intellectual Property Law Association’s 90th annual dinner honouring the federal...
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