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The judge as the docket names them, including whether an article III judge or a magistrate.
The court and division, which decides which rules and orders apply.
What you are filing and its posture in the case.
Prior appearances, standing orders you have read, rulings you have seen.
The databases, dockets, and analytics products you actually have access to.
Watch for, the whole way through
The model has no knowledge of any individual judge and will invent rulings, statistics, and preferences that sound authoritative. Treat every name or figure it produces as fabricated.
Judicial analytics products report what can be coded from dockets, which is a thin slice of what decides motions. A grant rate across all movants tells you little about your motion.
Standing orders and chambers rules change without notice and are often not where you expect. Read the current version from the court's own site before you rely on anything about form or procedure.
Anything you write about a judge can be produced, forwarded, or read aloud. Keep characterizations of a person out of email and out of the file.
Researching a judge is legitimate; contacting chambers about the merits is not. Confine any call to the clerk to scheduling and form.