Civil Litigation - Private: Beware any judicial officer who boasts of his sense of humor. It…
Beware any judicial officer who boasts of his sense of humor. It usually means he does not have a sense of humor. Judge Drozd is petulant and arbitrary, and (in my experience) unable to grasp complexity. He is also given to public statements regarding counsel and firms that all judges should avoid, but he appears completely oblivious to social and professional cues. I was present at the Eastern District conference the year he was elevated from magistrate to district judge. He threw a bit of a tantrum onstage for having been considered "new" when he had been a magistrate for so long. I don't mind confident judges when brilliance, mindfulness and purpose follow the confidence. But without those, it isn't "confidence" -- it's boorish and a sign of the bad legal scholarship to follow. A sub-mediocre legal mind.