Los Angeles County (Los Angeles)
By Chase Scheinbaum
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - In 2004, Owen Lee Kwong assumed the reins of a thicket of sexual-abuse cases against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange. At the time the Los Angeles County Superior Court judge took over, the settlement had festered unresolved for 2½ years under the direction of beleaguered Judge Peter D. Lichtman.
Kwong, in a deft turnaround that has come to define his judicial style, negotiated a settlement... (continued)
