Los Angeles County (Los Angeles)
Career Highlights: Joined Signature Resolution, July 2023; appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Gray Davis, June 5, 2002, and retired July 7, 2023 after 11 years in the court's Mandatory Settlement Conference program; deputy attorney general, State of California, Department of Justice, 1989-2002.
Law School: Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1987
Signature Resolution
Career Highlights: Joined Signature Resolution, July 2023; appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Gray Davis, June 5, 2002, and retired July 7, 2023 after 11 years in the court's Mandatory Settlement Conference program; deputy attorney general, State of California, Department of Justice, 1989-2002.
Law School: Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1987
Signature Resolution
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)
