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Nov. 7, 2006

Still Discovering Balance

As a young attorney in the mid-1980s, Bruce E. Chan saw Asian-American defendants with drug problems shuffled in and out of San Francisco's courtrooms and knew he had to do more than just defend them.

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San Francisco Superior Court
By Amy Yarbrough
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SAN FRANCISCO - As a young attorney in the mid-1980s, Bruce E. Chan saw Asian-American defendants with drug problems shuffled in and out of San Francisco's courtrooms and knew he had to do more than just defend them.
      Chan - now a San Francisco County Superior Court commissioner - was acutely aware of growing Quaalude abuse ... (continued)

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