The Robing Room

Hon. Mary Dacey WhiteDistrict Court JudgeDistrict CourtEssex

2.4

Comment #	Occupation	Rating	Comments	Date & Time	Actions
101956	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	Over two decades practicing law. Hon. Mary Dacey White is the worst jurist I have come across. She isn’t prepared. Easily distracted. Showboats (I am not sure for whom). Maybe the clerks. Best hope for the Commonwealth is that...Read More	01/04/2022 07:14 PM	Contact reviewer
58194	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	A judgement was made against me without a summons or an attempt to contact me concerning settlement before a hearing,	07/27/2018 04:55 PM	Contact reviewer
55226	Litigant	No Rating	poor. not one of the brains on the bench	04/18/2018 01:44 PM	Contact reviewer
37831	Litigant	No Rating	SHE IS VERY UNFAIR IN REFUSING TO SEAL CRIMINAL RECORDS. MOST JUDGES BEND OVER BACKWARDS - ESPECIALLY IF THE DEFENDANT IS A PROFESSIONAL. JUDGE WHITE IS UNREASONABLE.	09/30/2015 12:31 PM	Contact reviewer
37829	Other	No Rating	poor. she refused to seal a record only because my prospective employers did not write letters denying employment. my employers DO NOT WRITE LETTERS. however, I was denied employment because of a criminal charge that ended in a st...Read More	09/30/2015 12:12 PM	Contact reviewer
37721	Criminal Defense Lawyer	View Details	She is unfair about sealing records. She seems to require a letter refusing work when my employers do not write letters. I have been denied employment several times, but since the denial was done in writing Judge White would not s...Read More	09/24/2015 05:16 PM	Contact reviewer
37368	Criminal Defense Lawyer	View Details	I thought she was very unfair to me.	09/03/2015 12:53 PM	Contact reviewer
22805	Other	No Rating	I am reserving my final opinion of this judge. One thing that I did not like was that she laughed at a time during the proceedings that was inappropriate. I had a very immature lawyer who presented the case in a way that did not r...Read More	08/13/2013 03:19 PM	Contact reviewer
20295	Litigant	No Rating	Average. Costs me money by prolonging the procedure.	02/26/2013 01:59 PM	Contact reviewer
6765	Other	No Rating	This judge is an extremely competent, professional,and very fair. She is careful, through, and Deliberative in her passing on the law, wheather it is a civil or criminal case. I was involved in a complex interjurisdictional case b...Read More	03/05/2010 09:51 PM	Contact reviewer
6286	Litigant	No Rating	Unfortunately, I can only repeat the previous opinion - "there is nothing Honorable about Dacey White. She is a total disgrace to the bench and legal profession."	10/22/2009 07:04 PM	Contact reviewer
5280	Other	No Rating	There is nothing Honorable about Dacey White. She is a total disgrace to the bench and legal profession. I was the defendant in what was proved to be a totally baseless case. Judge White's behavior at preliminary hearings for this...Read More	05/10/2009 07:29 AM	Contact reviewer
4444	Criminal Defense Lawyer	No Rating	Mary Dacey White is one of the best judges on the district court bench. She is fair, intelligent and very considerate. She is fantastic.	01/15/2009 10:08 PM	Contact reviewer
3447	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	Fair, hardworking and knowledgeable. Great at settlement issues and has a good grasp of the legal issues. Don't try and be cute with legal issues that have no basis or she will land on you with both feet. A great motion judge.	12/01/2008 01:24 PM	Contact reviewer
3161	Criminal Defense Lawyer	View Details	Excellent judge with years of experience as an A.D.A. Reasonable and fair. Has courage most judges lack.	10/17/2008 02:06 PM	Contact reviewer
3156	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	Judge White is by far the worst judge I have appeared before in my 24 years as an attorney. Not only does she not have the grasp a first-year law student would of contracts and torts, she is unprofessional, irrational and totally...Read More	10/16/2008 12:10 PM	Contact reviewer