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he did hire me, as I had good grades and good writing. Hon. William T. Nicholas, currently Senior Judge, Montgomery County, was the district attorney in Montgomery County, and he offered me a position when I completed my clerkship, and he was a mentor to me throughout my entire career, even today. He's very modest about it, but he is a tremendous jurist, tremendous lawyer and tremendously knowledgeable. My third mentor was Superior Court Judge Phyllis Beck. So, I was fortunate that I had a group of people who were willing to bounce ideas off of me – I was able to bounce ideas off of them and to discuss things of importance in the law. My fourth mentor, my husband, Lewis Gantman, is supportive and knowledgeable. Would you like to talk about the Superior Court itself? The Superior Court is the court of last resort in 95 percent of the cases. It is important that people understand how critical this court is. The court's decisions have a significant impact on Pennsylvania's economy and the quality of life for our citizens. We're a little bit under the radar. We handle appeals from most criminal cases, family law matters, contract cases, product liability cases and other commercial disputes. The court has staff and law clerks. How are the judge's chambers – a Superior Court judge's chambers – organized? Each judge has four law clerks – a chief law clerk, two deputy law clerks and what we call a step law clerk. The four clerks, two secretaries, and the judge process the volume of the work. In addition, we have Central Legal Staff lawyers. Central Legal Staff lawyers review the propriety of the filing of cases, check the dockets, do clearance of all cases so that we're not in conflict and inform us of all the Supreme Court decisions that come down. 18 the philadelphia lawyer Fall 2015 Oral advocacy is a part of the decision, but the most important part is the brief and how the issues are framed and preserved. We're an error-correcting court, so you have to show us how the trial judge or the jury made an error in law.