Los Angeles County Superior Court
Career Highlights: Appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court judge by Gov. Jerry Brown, March 27, 2015; senior counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, 2001-15; chief counsel, ACLU Southern California, 1999-2000; visiting professor, UCLA, 1997-99; Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, 1993-97; associate, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, 1987-93
Law School: Georgetown University Law Center, 1986
Career Highlights: Appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court judge by Gov. Jerry Brown, March 27, 2015; senior counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, 2001-15; chief counsel, ACLU Southern California, 1999-2000; visiting professor, UCLA, 1997-99; Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, 1993-97; associate, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, 1987-93
Law School: Georgetown University Law Center, 1986
LOS ANGELES - Nearly three decades ago, Superior Court Judge Michael C. Small arrived in California expecting to stay four months.
At the time, he was a Washington, D.C., lawyer through and through: Georgetown Law, a Fulbright scholarship, a D.C. Circuit Court clerkship, work at Wilmer Cutler & Pickering; then a post in President Bill Clinton's Department of Justice under Walter Dellinger in the Office of Legal Counsel, followed by a role as deputy associate at... (continued)
