Los Angeles County (Monterey Park)
MONTEREY PARK -- On an October afternoon in the Edmund D. Edelman Children's Courthouse, Commissioner Lisa Anne Brackelmanns presided over a 37-page juvenile dependency calendar consisting of 81 cases.
When she was appointed to the bench last year, Brackelmanns was not sure how she would make it through such a hectic calendar. She was in awe of how bench officers were able to interact with five or six lawyers per case whi... (continued)