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New appointments to the Judicial Council of California

By Richard Binder

Chief Justice Ronald M. George has announced the appointment of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Burt Pines to the Judicial Council of California.

Admitted to the State Bar in 1964 after attending USC and law school at New York University, Pines was in private practice for 24 years, specializing in complex civil litigation and administrative law, and served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice. He joined the Superior Court in 2003 at the appointment of then-Gov. Grey Davis and served as Davis? judicial appointments secretary from 1999 to 2003, advising the governor on all appointments to the trial and appellate courts. He was also Los Angeles city attorney from 1973 to 1981.

Pines is a member of the Bench-Bar Coalition and has served on the Judicial Council?s Working Group on Judicial Pay and Benefits. He also served on the council?s Judicial Service Advisory Committee from 2004 to 2005 and is currently a member of the Superior Court?s executive committee and chair of the Legislature Relations Committee of the California Judges Association.

Three other judges were also named to three-year terms as voting members of the council. Full story at Metropolitan News-Enterprise.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on June 02, 2010 (boomark / email).