VAN NUYS -- Superior Court Judge Graciela L. Freixes keeps a photo in chambers of her doing a tandem skydive. "I keep that there for those times when I doubt myself, I'll think, 'Gosh, I can't do this, or I can't do that,' she said.
"Snap out of it! You jumped out of an airplane. You can do this!" she tells herself when faced with difficulties.
Freixes practiced medical malpractice defense for 24 y... (continued)