
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2008; commissioner, Los Angeles County Superior Court, 2005-08; of counsel, Overland Borenstein Scheper & Kim LLP, Los Angeles, 2005; sole practitioner, Santa Monica, 1995-2005; Bahan & Bianco, Santa Monica, 1994-95; deputy city attorney, Santa Monica, 1990-94; associate, Weissburg & Aronson Inc., Los Angeles, 1987-90 Law School: USC Gould School of Law, 1987
Law School: USC Gould School of Law, 1987
By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Jim Bianco was sitting in his Santa Monica office one Wednesday afternoon in July 2003 when the telephone rang. The caller introduced himself as the son-in-law of an 86-year-old Santa Monica man named Russell Weller.
A few hours earlier, Weller had stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake near one end of the city's popular farmers' market. When his car finally came to a stop, 10 people... (continued)