LOS ANGELES — When family law attorney Janine M. Frisco recently learned that her case would be presided over by a judge with barely a year on the bench, her first reaction was to worry.
“I’m concerned about that, thinking ‘Oh great, we’re going to go to trial on this case and we’re getting a [new] judge. Does she know family law?’” the Long Beach attorney from Gilligan Frisco & Trutanich LLP recalled in a phone interview. <... (continued)