A typical vacation for the couple begins in the car ride to a judicial conference, six hours together, the simple pleasures of talk.
He is recognized throughout the Midwest as an authority on trial procedures, and has been a noted speaker at judicial conferences.
These debates, as well, will often occur face to face during judicial conferences, but they find their most prominent voice in written opinions.
In recent years, he has held audiences at judicial conferences spellbound with his account of the shooting.
The trip to Yellowstone had been a three-day judicial conference.
When another judge suggested as much at a judicial conference, she said, "You've been reading too many newspapers."
Mr. Abrams acknowledged in an interview that Federal judges across the country believed themselves bound by the decision of the judicial conference.
Proposals that reach the judicial conference's agenda with the pedigree that this one had are usually adopted with little debate.
He has been a speaker at various judicial conferences.
In 1997 he wrote a commentary for a judicial conference that showed his view of the news media.