Los Angeles County Superior Court
Career Highlights: Appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, June 26, 2016; partner, Hogan Lovells US LLP, 2012-16, Los Angeles; partner, Dewey & LeBoeuf, 1986-2012, Los Angeles; associate, Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, 1984-86, Los Angeles; associate, Lillick McHose & Charles, 1982-84, Los Angeles; prosecutor, Federal Trade Commission, 1980-82, Los Angeles; assistant attorney general, Illinois Attorney General's Office, 1977-80
Law School: Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, 1977
Los Angeles Court Superior Court
Career Highlights: Appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, June 26, 2016; partner, Hogan Lovells US LLP, 2012-16, Los Angeles; partner, Dewey & LeBoeuf, 1986-2012, Los Angeles; associate, Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, 1984-86, Los Angeles; associate, Lillick McHose & Charles, 1982-84, Los Angeles; prosecutor, Federal Trade Commission, 1980-82, Los Angeles; assistant attorney general, Illinois Attorney General's Office, 1977-80
Law School: Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, 1977
Los Angeles Court Superior Court
LOS ANGELES -- Superior Court Judge Dean Hansell's civil colleagues have been asking him the same question for years: "When are you going to join us in civil?"
Hansell spent decades as a complex civil litigator before taking the bench, so the move might have seemed natural. He expected it himself when he was first assigned to family law.
"I assumed I'd be there for two or three years, and I'd go to civil," he said.
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