i m a judge in the circuit court.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Circuit courts are court systems in several common law jurisdictions. The core concept of circuit courts requires judges to travel to different locales to ensure wide visibility and understanding of cases in a region. More generally, some modern circuit courts may also refer to a court which merely holds trials for cases of multiple locations in some rotation. King Henry II instituted the custom of having judges ride the circuit each year to hear cases, rather than requiring every citizen to bring their cases to London (see Assize of Clarendon). Thus, the term \"circuit court\" is derived from the practice of having judges ride around the countryside each year on pre-set paths \u2212 circuits \u2212 to hear cases. Especially on the United States frontier, a judge might travel on horseback along with a group of lawyers. Abraham Lincoln was one such attorney who would ride the circuit in Illinois. In more settled areas, a stagecoach would be used. Eventually the legal caseload in a county would become great enough to warrant the establishment of a local judiciary. Most of these local judicial circuits (that is, in terms of the actual routes traveled by judges) have been thus replaced by judges regularly stationed at local courthouses, but in many areas the legacy term remains in usage.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm a judge in the circuit court"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Gosh, that's a responsible job. Plus, circuit courts require that judges travel to different areas, isn't that correct?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "They do. It can be quite testing at times"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm sure. But at least you don't have to travel with lawyers on horseback, as judges had to do on the old US frontier!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh no kidding. In that case it could take days to get around!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Indeed. That's where the name \"circuit court\" derives from: having judges ride around the countryside on pre-set paths to hear cases."}, {"role": "user", "content": "You've done your research! Do you know anything else interesting?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "You're in admirable company - Abraham Lincoln was one such lawyer who would ride the circuit in the state of Illinois."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ah, that's true! What a life that must have been"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It must have been quite challenging at times. Mind you, in more settled regions, the judge could use a stagecoach - a little easier!"}]