Career Highlights: Appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court judge by Gov. Jerry Brown, July 2013; commissioner, Los Angeles County Superior Court, 2011-13; inspector general, assistant inspector general, 2002-11, Office of the Inspector General, Los Angeles Police Commission; deputy, Los Angeles City attorney's office, 1995-2002; associate, Irell & Manella LLP, Los Angeles, 1994-95; associate, Stutman Treister & Glatt, Los Angeles, 1992-94 UCLA School of Law, 1992
Los Angeles County Superior Court
By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer
INGLEWOOD - As a Los Angeles deputy city attorney in the mid-1990s, Nicole Bershon relied on law enforcement tools, such as civil gang injunctions, to counter the impact of gang violence on inner-city communities.
The argument that such injunctions violated defendants' constitutional rights went all the way to the state Supreme Court, with the high court ruling that the First Amendment doesn't give people ... (continued)