Letters
Jan. 7, 2026
No trial backlog when everyone does their part
Despite a sharp rise in civil filings, the Civil Division has eliminated trial backlogs in Department 1--thanks to judicial collaboration, structural reforms, and parties who prepare cases with urgency and purpose.
Stanley Mosk Courthouse
Lawrence P. Riff
Supervising Judge
Los Angeles County Superior Court
General Civil, UDs
University of Oregon School of Law, 1982
Thank you for your coverage of recent Superior Court of
Los Angeles County reforms and improvements (LADJ, 12/23). The article referred
to trial backlogs in the Civil Division. As Supervising Judge of the Civil
Division, in which I preside over the Department 1 master calendar for the
division, I would like to clarify some facts.
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