Marty Barash has been appointed by the 9th Circuit to be the new Bankruptcy Judge in Woodland Hills. He is a great choice. He is a partner at Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanov & Stern LLP. He should actually take the bench in March – April 2015.
Until then, the two remaining judges, Maureen Tighe and Victoria Kaufman, will be doing double duty with the help of the retired judges there. The problem is that the retired judges have no staff. So the staffs of the two sitting judges must do the work that was previously done by three staffs.