A U.S Magistrate Judge’s Guide to Win the Legal AI Game: Insights from Judge Allison Goddard

Quotes:

1. “When I first got on the bench, people would say, how is your stress level? It must be so stressful to be a judge. And I would say it's like kindergarten because I don't have the stress of being on the receiving end of nasty emails about a discovery dispute.”
2. “I call the mid-level associate the baby rattlesnake phase because, I don't even know if this is true, but it's the myth here that baby rattlesnakes have all the venom, but none of the ability to regulate it. And that's kind of like that band of lawyers - where you haven't had enough experience to recognize what's important and what’s not.” 
3. “I think if you're going into deposition these days and you've got a client that you're defending and you haven't at least done that, it's going to become kind of malpractice not to be prepared that way.”
4. “I think that the most important quality that successful people are going to have over the next 10 to 20 years is authenticity. And I think we're going to have to find a way to be our real selves. Which also means that we have to work on being better selves.”
5. “Well, I'm from a big family in Tennessee and there were no lawyers in my family but I always had a strong sense of right and wrong and justice. And I, also think all of my siblings will tell you, I was always pushing against power. So that was something that I always did from a young age.”