
By Rebecca Beyer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte's legal career - which included stints in government and private practice before she took the bench - has a certain symmetry to it.
Before going to law school, she worked on insurance policy at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. Years later, she took a job at the California Department of Insurance as an administrative law judge, where she decided an import... (continued)