Judges and Judiciary
Mar. 12, 2020
Ballot designations favor prosecutors for the bench
The results of the March 3 judicial election demonstrate one powerful fact: Prosecutors win elections to the bench because of their ballot designations, while private practitioners, who cannot have descriptive ballot designations, will always lose against a prosecutor.
Timothy D. Reuben
Reuben MediationTim Reuben spent more than 40 years handling complex legal disputes in California's state and federal courts. As the founder and managing partner of Reuben Raucher & Blum in Los Angeles, he has worked on a wide range of matters through jury and bench trials, arbitration, mediation, judicial reference, and settlement conferences across multiple areas of civil law, including commercial, real estate, construction, employment, intellectual property, insurance, professional liability, and unfair competition.
The results of the March 3 judicial election demonstrate one powerful fact: Prosecutors win elections to the bench because of their ballot designations, while private practitioners, who cannot have descriptive ballot designations, will always lose against a prosecutor. [Full disclosure: I am a private practitioner who unsuccessfully ran for the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench in this month's election.]
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