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  Daily Journal Staff Writer 

  POMONA - From his career as a prominent commercial litigator and leader in the Los
  Angeles County legal community, Richard Burdge knows the value of having a lawyer,
  and spends much of his time on the Superior Court telling people they need to get
  one.  

  As a family law judge in the Pomona South Courthouse, Burdge is completing his first
  year on the bench, and 75 percent of those appearing before him ... (continued)