Judges and Judiciary
Jul. 22, 2016
A sense of community between the bench and bar
Here in L.A. we may have acquired a skyline that resembles Northeastern cities, but our high-rises house a tacit understanding that talent counts more than antecedent. By Anthony J. Mohr
During law school, someone told me the price of a judgeship in New York had reached $50,000. That's 1972 dollars. The person added that many trial judges in New York were party hacks.
In 1995, a year after I became a judge, a Columbia Law School friend, in Los Angeles on business, asked me, "Why did you give up your practice to take a state court judgeship?" He went on to say that most of our classmates wouldn't think of s...
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