Career Highlights: Appointed Superior Court judge by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Dec. 7, 2023; partner, Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP, 2016-23; partner, associate, Trope and Trope LLP, 1990-2016; associate, law clerk, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, 1989-90.
Law School: University of Michigan Law School, 1989
LOS ANGELES - A hearing over visitation rights was scheduled on a Friday afternoon, but when the session began, the plaintiff and her attorney failed to appear via Webex. This absence did not sit well with Superior Court Judge Anne C. Kiley.
"Isn't there another attorney in the law firm that can appear on her behalf?" inquired the judge. The defense attorney, representing a father seeking visitation rights after a year apart from his child, explained th... (continued)