 In the Seventh Circuit, Judge Posner said, staff lawyers rather than judges assessed appeals from such litigants, and the court generally rubber-stamped the lawyers' recommendations. Judge Posner offered to help. "I wanted to review all the staff attorney memos before they went to the panel of judges," he said. "I'd sit down with the staff attorney, go over his memo. I'd make whatever editorial suggestions  -  or editorial commands  -  that I thought necessary. It would be good education for staff attorneys, and it would be very good" for the litigants without lawyers. "I had the approval of the director of the staff attorney program," Judge Posner said, "but the judges, my colleagues, all 00 of them, turned it down and refused to give me any significant role. I was very frustrated by that." 