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May 7, 2009

Recession Proof

Judge Deirdre Hill has gone from being watchdog over the Los Angeles Police Department to policing a flurry of foreclosure- and bankruptcy-related cases in her Inglewood courtroom.

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Recession Proof
Los Angeles Superior Court (Inglewood)
By Greg Katz
Daily Journal Staff Writer

INGLEWOOD - Superior Court Judge Deirdre Hill's court is certainly not the only one impacted by the economic recession. But as a limited civil judge overseeing foreclosure and bankruptcy related cases in this working class city, she's perhaps more acutely aware than most.

Hill, 48, whose chambers look out on the LAX flight path, handles a calendar as relentless as the jets streaming in and out of the... (continued)

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