
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2018; shareholder, Buchalter, 2016-18; shareholder, Parker Milliken APC, 2012-15; partner, McGuire Woods LLP, 2006-12; senior counsel, Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket PC, 2003-06; senior counsel, Mitsubishi Motors of America, 2002-03; senior counsel, Kelley Drye & Warren, 2000-02; Pillsbury, 1990-2000
Law School: Hastings College of Law
MONTEREY PARK -- When Judge Sabina A. Helton was told dependency court was going to be her first assignment on the bench, she hadn't even heard of it.
"So I sort of looked it up really quickly because I didn't have a concept for what it was going to be like," Helton said in her chambers at the Edmund D. Edelman Children's Courthouse late last year.
Upon first observing the Los Angeles Co... (continued)