In this August 4, 2023 interview Host Jeff Adelman, Esq., speaks with universally respected Southern District of Florida Federal District Court Judge Raag Singhal on a wide variety of topics, including:

• His background as a criminal defense lawyer and what it is like to try 204 jury trials;
• The differences between serving as a State Circuit Court Judge and then being elevated to the Federal Bench in the Southern District of Florida in 2019.
• What Judge Singhal learned in the 22 years prior to becoming a state Court Judge about judicial styles.
• The interesting dimensions of serving in the Circuit Civil Division of the 17th Judicial Circuit as compared to serving in the Criminal Division.
• The need to train younger lawyers about the art of trying jury trials.
• What Federal Court practitioners can do to make Judges’ jobs easier.
• The Judge’s amazing personal fitness goals and the need to achieve a healthy work/life balance.

Produced by Mitchell A. Chester, Esq. for the Florida Chapters of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the ABOTA Fort Lauderdale Chapter. Music courtesy Pixabay.com/Music and Evgeny Bardyuzha.