Judges and Judiciary
Oct. 15, 2013
Branch's new chief counsel talks transition, reform
Deborah Brown, chief counsel for the branch's legal services office, took over Oct. 1. She faces the task for making changes to the office after a critical report, and providing courts legal help despite losing staff to budget cuts.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - After California's chief justice commissioned a review of the judicial branch's administrative office, its authors leveled some of their criticisms at the branch's legal office in their report last year. Legal advice for superior court administrators took too long, it said, and the courts' general counsel "inserted herself into the policy making functions of the Judicial Counc...
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