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Aug. 14, 2006

Fascinated by Language

Whether editing a literary magazine in college, pouring over footnotes when he was a law clerk or assessing arguments from the bench, Commissioner David J. Cowan focuses on the words.

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Los Angeles Superior Court
Los Angeles County Superior Court
By Anat Rubin
Daily Journal Staff Writer


It might seem strange that someone who finished his first novel at the tender age of 13 and edited a cutting-edge arts and literature magazine in the New York City of the 1980s would fall in love with footnotes.
      But for Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner David J. Cowan, that's how it happened.
      Cowan didn't dre... (continued)

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