Los Angeles County (Monterey Park)
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2010; partner, Brown, White & Newhouse LLP, Los Angeles, 2009-10; attorney, Law Office of James W. Spertus, Los Angeles 2008; senior counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Los Angeles 2002-08; assistant U.S. attorney, Los Angeles, 1991-2001; associate, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, Los Angeles, 1991; associate, Wyman, Bautzer, Kuchel & Silbert, Los Angeles, 1988-91
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2010; partner, Brown, White & Newhouse LLP, Los Angeles, 2009-10; attorney, Law Office of James W. Spertus, Los Angeles 2008; senior counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Los Angeles 2002-08; assistant U.S. attorney, Los Angeles, 1991-2001; associate, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, Los Angeles, 1991; associate, Wyman, Bautzer, Kuchel & Silbert, Los Angeles, 1988-91
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law
By Ben Adlin
Daily Journal Staff Writer
MONTEREY PARK - Ask the attorneys who work regularly with Judge David R. Fields about his courtroom practices, and they'll eventually mention his binder.
A thick, three-ring notebook, it's full of handwritten notes for each of the juvenile dependency cases he's heard since taking the bench at Los Angeles County's Edelman Children's Court last year.
One lawyer called the binder "tome... (continued)
