Demands of the Job
Judge Deborah Gross-Quatrone says that when she was on the Bergen County, N.J., bench, her boss, Assignment Judge Bonnie Mizdol, verbally abused her. She even felt pushed to work days as long as 18 hours. That’s part of Gross-Quatrone’s defense to an ethics charge of secretly recording a conversation with Mizdol. But when it comes to accusations that Gross-Quatrone made a law clerk work unpaid overtime, she says she “never dictated start days, hours, or times.” And as for the charge that she had her secretary do her son’s homework and other non-judicial tasks, the judge said, “She gladly did so on her breaks and on her own time.” (AC/Newark Star-Ledger) ...As gladly as you worked 18-hour days, Your Honor?Original Publication Date: 16 April 2017
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
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