
PORTERVILLE — Michael Sheltzer was a probation officer in Louisiana with an undergraduate philosophy degree when he realized a career in law wasn’t so impossible.
“I saw really bad lawyering, and I said, ‘You know something, I can do at least as bad as that,’” said Sheltzer, now supervising judge in Tulare County’s South County Justice Center, a new $93 million facility that is unlike anything in surrounding rural Porterville.
The human storyline of the law appealed t... (continued)