Los Angeles County (Los Angeles)
Career Highlights: Zaven V. Sinanian served for more than 21 years as a judge on the Los Angeles Superior Court and for a decade as a settlement judge in the Court's Mandatory Settlement Conference Program, where he mediated unlimited jurisdiction civil disputes across virtually every area of the law.
Law School: Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1987
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Career Highlights: Zaven V. Sinanian served for more than 21 years as a judge on the Los Angeles Superior Court and for a decade as a settlement judge in the Court's Mandatory Settlement Conference Program, where he mediated unlimited jurisdiction civil disputes across virtually every area of the law.
Law School: Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1987
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LOS ANGELES -- In the vast majority of cases Judge Zaven V. Sinanian has presided over, the parties ended up taking the alternative route to an "antagonistic" or "adversarial" trial: a negotiated settlement.
"When they come to me I want them to think of this department as an oasis of peace," said Sinanian, who oversees the Los Angeles Superior Court's Judicial Mandatory Settlement Program.
"I always a... (continued)
