Judges and Judiciary,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Dec. 15, 2017
Judging on the graveyard shift
The world of graveyard shift night owls is unfamiliar to lawyers who go on to become judges.
Stanley Mosk Courthouse
Lawrence P. Riff
Supervising Judge
Los Angeles County Superior Court
General Civil, UDs
University of Oregon School of Law, 1982
It's 3:04 a.m. and my phone is ringing for the ninth time since midnight. I just dozed off in my chair. But I'm awake now. "Judge, this is county operator 33; I have Deputy Hernandez in Palmdale seeking an EPO." The operator is referring to an emergency protective order. This is my third consecutive night on duty and I have a good idea what's coming. I say, "Thanks operator -- put it through." The conversation is, depressingly, as I expected: "Deputy, Judge Riff here....
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