judicial conference

noun

Law.

1. a conference of judges held to discuss improvements in methods or judicial procedure through court rules or otherwise.

Example Sentences

And he did it through his counselor, Robert Dow, who was speaking at the 6th Circuit Judicial Conference this week.

From Slate

Reading the tea leaves from cryptic Supreme Court orders can be perilous business because the justices are not bound by the questions they ask at oral argument, the offhand comments they make at a judicial conference, or even their monumental “shadow docket” rulings on emergency petitions that have become all too common.

From Slate

There is a stark contrast between the response of Chief Justice Roberts, who said something about how it’s not appropriate to default to impeachment if you don’t like a judicial decision, and what Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said at the 1st Circuit Circuit judicial conference, where she gave a speech about district court judges, and invoked district court judges from the Civil Rights era and the courageousness and bravery of those judges.

From Slate

First there was the decision by the Judicial Conference to pass on investigating multiple questionable actions by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

From Salon

Now the Judicial Conference has said it doesn’t think it has the power to make a referral to the Justice Department over his lapse, even though Congress explicitly gave it this power in the statute.

From Slate