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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By Jean Yung
Daily Journal Staff Writer
During the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, the Armenian genocide ended Zaven V. Sinanian's grandfather's legal career. He was prevented from practicing law and deported to Cyprus, where he started a small business. But the unfulfilled dream would inspire his grandson, who sought political refuge in America as a teenager, to apply to law school.
Today, Sinanian is one of seven judges in Los Angeles Super... (continued)
