LOS ANGELES — Whether Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff is wrangling with a research and statutory issue-intensive calendar or handling a decade’s worth of litigation surrounding one of the highest-profile estates in the world, his detail-oriented approach to all quandaries has served him well.
As of Nov. 13, Beckloff moved from an independent calendar in the Santa Monica Courthouse to a writs assignment in the Stanley Mosk Cou... (continued)