BAKERSFIELD -- When Kern County Superior Court Judge Lisa M. Pacione learned she was going to become a court commissioner, she phoned her mother right away, but not exactly to give her the great news.
"I had a huge family law practice and I had six weeks to wrap it up," she recalled. "So I called her and said, 'You need to talk to your son [then estate planning attorney Mario A. Pacione] about coming to Lancaster and t... (continued)