General Counsel’s Office Focus of Criticism in Wake of Judges’ Report

(Courthouse News Service, 6/8/12)

In the wake of a scathing critique of California’s court bureaucracy, trial judges have targeted the General Counsel’s Office within that bureaucracy as inefficient, overstaffed and out of line…  ”Managers within the AOC express concerns that the General Counsel regards herself as a ‘gatekeeper’ for matters that are put before the Judicial Council and that the General Counsel has inserted herself into the policy making functions of the Judicial Council, as opposed to the more appropriate role of providing legal services and advice,” they said in their report. Read More…