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President Obama has nominated Leonard Stark to fill the judicial vacancy in the District of Delaware created after Judge Jordan's elevation to the Third Circuit.  Judge Leonard P. Stark is a United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Delaware, a position he has held since 2007.  Previously, he was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Delaware and an associate in the Delaware office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

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After 25 years of dedicated service as a United States District Judge for the District of Delaware, the Honorable Joseph J. Farnan, Jr. submitted his letter of retirement to President Barack Obama.  Judge Farnan plans to leave his office on July 31, 2010 and return to the practice of law.  During his tenure on the bench, Judge Farnan was pivotal in cementing the Court's reputation as a national venue for complex litigation.

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It has been reported that the following names for consideration as Vice Chancellor in the Delaware Court of Chancery have been submitted to Governor Jack Markell from his Judicial Nominating Commission:

• Mary Johnston, a Superior Court judge since 2003 and previously the chief disciplinary counsel for the Delaware Supreme Court and a partner at Morris James.
• Richard Forsten, a partner at Saul Ewing and counsel to the Delaware Republican Party.
• Travis Laster, a partner at Abrams & Laster with a practice in corporate law.

 

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Morris James was recognized as the highest-ranking law firm in Delaware in their "Best in the Business" survey for "Mid-sized Companies".  The survey, conducted for The News Journal by WorkplaceDynamics, gathered feedback from 97 participating organizations on a variety of factors such as management, advancement, environment and compensation.
 

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Morris James has launched a new e-discovery blog titled Delaware eDiscovery Report.  Chris Spizzirri's expertise has been described by Gabe's Guide to the e-Discovery Universe as "top notch."  We invite you to check out the blog and follow e-discovery developments.
 

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It was reported in the Delaware Grapevine by Celia Cohen that the candidates for the vacant judgeship in this district are rumored to be Andre Bouchard, managing partner at Bouchard Margules & Friedlander, U.S. Magistrate Judge Leonard Stark, and Mary Graham, a partner at Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell.

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Chief Judge Sleet announced today that the court would be assigning every fourth case to a judge selected from a roster of about 6 judges from the E.D.Pa. and possibly later from the D.N.J. until the vacancy is filled with a fourth judge in this district.  It is expected that the pretrial proceedings will take place where those judges normally reside, but the trials will take place in Delaware.  It is unclear at this point whether those cases will be reassigned once the vacancy is filled.
 

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The White House confirmed today that it has sent U.S. Attorney Colm F. Connolly's name to the U.S. Senate as its nominee to fill a vacancy on the federal bench in Delaware.

Connolly's name was submitted for consideration by President Bush along with three others last year to fill the position left vacant by Kent A. Jordan after he was appointed to the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.

 

 

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The Delaware District Court has now started a six month pilot program which grants registered CM/ECF users the right to file civil and miscellaneous case opening documents via the efiling system with the use of a credit card.  Previously, all new complaints needed to be filed in hard copy and on CD directly with the Clerk's office.  The Clerk's office would then give the new case a civil action number and upload the documents to the efiling system, after which users would be able to access and add new documents to the case.

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Given that the vacancy in the fourth judgeship has lasted for over one year and is not likely to be filled in the near future, the District judges entered an Order on January 23, 2008 rescinding their prior Order "In Re: Assignment Of Civil Cases To United States Magistrate Judges" which was made effective on August 6 2007.  By this Joint Order, all cases assigned pursuant to the Order of August 6, 2007, and all cases filed in the future in the District shall, until further notice, be divided among the three active District Judges in accordance with the method currently employed by the Court for the allocation of assignments.

A copy of the full article is available here.

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