Career Highlights: Served as a Magistrate Judge on the federal bench, presiding over numerous trials, evidentiary hearings, motions, and discovery conferences involving diverse subject matter. As the settlement judge in hundreds of cases, she helped settle business and insurance disputes; class actions; patent, trademark, and copyright actions; and employment, civil rights, and tort cases. Before her appointment to the bench, Judge Segal served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Civil Division of the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney's Office and practiced business litigation in a private firm.
Law School: Cornell Law School, 1987
Over her 18 years as a federal magistrate judge, Suzanne H. Segal handled many criminal matters, discovery disputes, habeas corpus petitions, civil trials and, especially, settlement conferences. Through those, she said, she learned a great deal about what works and what doesn't when mediating civil litigation.
She determined that the most important thing she can do to bring about a resolution is to prepare thoroughly for... (continued)
