Word: brevet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brevet jurists was proposed last year by the American Board of Trial Advocates, an association of Western lawyers. Francis McCarty, presiding judge of the county's superior court, decided to use the volunteers as replacements for absent judges. Trial lawyers willing to accept the arrangement select the temporary judge they want in a given case, as they might pick an arbitrator. Though six replacements tried only one case each this summer, litigants who had anticipated delays settled more than 30 recent cases out of court rather than face the immediate trials made possible by the presence of judges...