For the last 12 years of his career as a lawyer, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Danny Y. Chou worked for the city of San Francisco and, later, for Santa Clara County. So when he took the bench last year and started in preliminary hearings, it seems that experience should have translated.
Nope. Chou worked on complex and special civil litigation in San Francisco. In Santa Clara, he served as assistant county couns... (continued)