California has at least 58 counties in the whole city of California. Each County has different judges, men and women sitting on the bench and almost all of them are good people who are trying to make decisions possible. By and large though, each judge may have their own peculiar tendencies and may have a little bit of a unique take on the law or some procedural differences that are sometimes noticeable. Even to the point of many local judges in their County court houses have webpages and they have what-- instead of just local rules, they have what's called, "Local-Local" meaning that specific judge's take on how their court room is to be run. This is completely understandable. We deal with this on a day-in, day-out basis but above and beyond that, the general tendency throughout the city of California is that the California rules of court, the California code of civil procedure, the California civil code, and all the other [?] of the codes that are out there are statewide. So we can practice law in the city of California throughout in any county and have an assurance that the law is going to be interpreted in a similar fashion regardless of which judge you're in front of. Now, fast forward to right now, in this [?] age with fax filing, with e-mail tend of rulings where the judges are sending their tend of rulings to the attorneys the day before the law of motion matter, to video conferencing, to telephonic appearances. There are so many ways for a client to save their dollar with the attorney not having to drive to the lawsuit and be able to appear telephonically, work on a client's other matters at the desk or even other client's matters. There are so many savings that are out there that we've been able to take advantage of these savings and practice throughout the State. I think I practiced in upwards of about 18 or 19 different counties in California. I've been in trials in San Diego, Orange County, LA County, Riverside County, Kerman, Kings to Larry, Merced, Madera, San Joaquin, San Francisco, Alameda and the surrounding counties all because of the uniformity throughout the State of California. When clients come in and say, "Can you handle a matter that's in another County?" Well, the fact is I'm going to handle that matter the same that I would handle a matter in any County because California's laws are statewide and the processes and the technology or such, that you can have conference, that you're going to be taken care of regardless of which County your matter is in.
By: Attorney Lenden Webb
