Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, December 2015; partner, Nossaman LLP, 1989-2016; associate, Heller Ehrman LLP, 1985-89, San Francisco; associate, Youngman, Hungate & Leopold, Los Angeles, 1983-85; Hufstedler, Miller Carlson & Beardsley, Los Angeles, 1982-83
Law School: Stanford Law School, 1982
Judge
NORWALK — Monthly rent and groceries are definitely bare necessities in Judge Thomas Long’s eye and could be reasons why he’ll lower monthly payments toward credit card debt. But Mercedes-Benz payments? Not so much.
“Other debts are not a bare necessity of life,” he said. “The judgment takes priority over other debts.”
Long is one of four collections bench officers in Los Angeles County... (continued)