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QUESTION

How does Amy Millard's legal background influence her desire to join the Conflicts of Interest Board and its potential benefits?

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Amy Millard, nominee for the Conflicts of Interest Board, attributes her desire to join and the anticipated benefits to her extensive legal experience, emphasizing skills crucial for board membership.

Millard’s legal career spans roles as a federal prosecutor, a defense lawyer, and a clerkship with a judge, developing skills beneficial for the board.
She highlights the importance of having an open mind, critically analyzing facts, understanding and applying the law, and using judgment and discretion.
Millard recounts mentoring younger prosecutors at the US attorney's office, focusing on teaching them judgment and discretion.
She believes her abilities in critical analysis and applying judgment are vital assets she would bring to the board.

Keith Powers

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Miss Malar, can you just talk a little bit you you told me to being a federal prosecutor.

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You mentioned also being working in defense.

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And can you talk about just a little more your desire and interest to be part of this process?

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Using that experience and what you think the benefits of that experience on both sides lend itself towards a specific position.

Amy Millard

0:45:24

Sure.

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Thank you.

0:45:27

Both as a starting with the judge, my clerkship with the judge as a prosecutor and as a defense lawyer, I spent decades learning certain skills, which I think are skills that would be beneficial to have as a board member.

0:45:43

One of the most important was having an open mind, listening carefully, doing a critical analysis of facts, understanding the law, applying the law to the facts, and equally important using judgment and discretion.

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One of the things that I did at the US attorney's office was I mentored less experienced prosecutors.

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And one of the things that I did with them was want to help them understand the system to help them with cases, but I think the most important thing that I did with them was to try and bring them along in teach them about using judgment and discretion.

0:46:35

And so I think all of those things is a a critical analysis of all the facts and all the circumstances and applying judgment are what I would bring.

Keith Powers

0:46:48

Okay.

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Thank you.

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