Working with the same lawyers every day was a change for Judge Anne Hwang, who was used to quite a bit of roving when she was a federal public defender.
"It's not one courtroom staffed with a D.A. and P.D., so you don't have the same people appearing before you as often," she explained about her previous job. "In federal court, you have your own cases and they get assigned to different judges. There's just not the same le... (continued)