Los Angeles County (Alhambra)
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
By Matthew Blake
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
ALHAMBRA -- "Today is car crash day!" Superior Court Judge Michael C. Small exuded with a mischievous smile inside a cavernous, wood-paneled Los Angeles County courtroom.
Small, a key lawyer in the Bill Clinton administration's Department of Justice and decorated appellate law specialist, is spending his Thursday like he does every other weekday morning the... (continued)
