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Litigation

Apr. 7, 2007

Judicial Adviser on New Track

Former train engineer Bernard Knapp is the new legal adviser to the Commission on Judicial Performance. It's a job "couldn't say no to," he said.

By Amy Yarbrough
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SAN FRANCISCO - Rewind 20 years, and Bernard Knapp's life was on a different track - tracks, to be exact, that rumbled beneath the former Southern Pacific Railroad.
      The new legal adviser to the Commission on Judicial Performance, Knapp worked his way through college and law school as a firefighter and engineer for the railroad on what is now a ...

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