SANTA CLARA - Despite exploring almost every corner of the legal field during his long, winding, bicoastal road to the bench, Superior Court Judge Hanley Chew loves the nuts and bolts of being a judge most.
While many judges spend decades working exclusively in either the private or public sphere before taking office, Chew spent 2 1/2 decades as an attorney switching lanes between being a federal prosecutor and a big law litigator.
He even had a brief eight-... (continued)