Editor's Foreword: the East, Is (in. The) Red!

• Citation: Vol. 31 No. 2
• Publication year: 2018
• Author: By Benjamin G. Shatz, Editor-in-Chief
• topic: Business of Law,Bankruptcy and Insolvency,Civil Procedure

Editor's Foreword: The East, is (in. the) Red!

By Benjamin G. Shatz, Editor-in-Chief

In July I received an email from Lawrence O'Neill, Chief Judge of the Eastern District. No, it wasn't a forwarded joke. Far from it. It was plea for help. And it was addressed to every attorney admitted to the district, which probably means you too. Judge O'Neill's missive highlighted the judicial crisis in the Eastern District and urged us to contact Washington for help. If judicial districts had dashboard gauges, the East would be in the dangerous red zone. This issue features the Eastern District's woes on our cover and in our lead article by Geoff Wilson and Alyson Berg. Read their take on this judicial crisis and then follow up by writing to your...