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Change: The Only True Constant
As a professional in the non-profit world for the last 30 years, a mom for 22, and a citizen of this country for over 50 (with special emphasis on the mom-part), despite my fervent wishes to the contrary, the only truth one can really rely on is that things will always change. Donors change, kids’...
Read ArticleGet to Know Presiding Judge Ed Weil
It’s an honor to have been selected by my colleagues as Assistant Presiding Judge, and now as Presiding Judge for 2023 and 2024. My colleagues also have selected our incoming Assistant Presiding Judge, Christopher Bowen, who will become Presiding Judge in 2025 and 2026. The last two years have posed many challenges, and we owe...
Read ArticleDavid Erb, CCCBA Board President 2023 “Stay Positive”
That is his answer to the question, “What is your favorite quote?” And frankly, that doesn’t surprise me. I am pleased and honored to be writing an article about our incoming Board President, David Erb. This quote is just one of the fascinating tidbits I learned in this article-producing process. Employing exhaustive research and journalistic...
Read ArticleA Tenure of Challenge & Change
In 2018, when I agreed to serve as Presiding Judge, I had hoped to explore opportunities to improve on our court operations and to make the work processes more efficient and sustainable for court employees, bench officers, and court users. I did not envision I would have to develop and implement various health mandates or...
Read ArticleJody Iorns, CCCBA Executive Director - Simply Meant to Be
Read ArticleDiscovery Facilitator Program
On March 23, 2020, Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye issued her first of hundreds of emergency orders on behalf of California trial courts related to the State of California’s COVID-19 shutdown. By April 30, 2022 most of those orders had been rescinded. Despite the return to “normalcy,” the myriad repercussions from the shutdown, delays to trials, discovery,...
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