Los Angeles County (Los Angeles)
Career Highlights: Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Pete Wilson, 1998; counselor, Office of Independent Counsel, 1996-98, Washington D.C.; partner, Smaltz, Anderson & Fahey, 1993-98, Los Angeles; assistant chief, assistant U.S. attorney, U.S. attorney's office, 1980-92, Los Angeles; associate, Sullivan, Jones & Archer, 1978-80; clerk, U.S. District Judge Laughlin E. Walters, 1976-78, Los Angeles
Law School: UCLA School of Law, 1976
Los Angeles County Superior Court
Career Highlights: Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Pete Wilson, 1998; counselor, Office of Independent Counsel, 1996-98, Washington D.C.; partner, Smaltz, Anderson & Fahey, 1993-98, Los Angeles; assistant chief, assistant U.S. attorney, U.S. attorney's office, 1980-92, Los Angeles; associate, Sullivan, Jones & Archer, 1978-80; clerk, U.S. District Judge Laughlin E. Walters, 1976-78, Los Angeles
Law School: UCLA School of Law, 1976
Los Angeles County Superior Court
LOS ANGELES — Most of Judge William Fahey’s complex business and tort cases are bench trials and he has high expectations from the attorneys appearing before him. He also doesn’t hesitate to let counsel know exactly what he thinks of their arguments and citations as well as their behavior and presentation.
“He is a by the book judge who sticks to the rules,” said Jeffrey Lewis, an attorney in Rolling Hills Estates. “He h... (continued)
