Los Angeles County (Compton)
In 2015, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Karen Ackerson Gauff had just returned from bereavement leave to her assignment at the Compton Courthouse when she received a call.
One of Gauff’s supervisors wanted to know if she would like to preside over a new kind of court. Like the drug court Gauff had been managing since 2010, this new court was to be nonadversarial — attorneys would work in collaboration with one another ... (continued)