Comment #: CA3570
Rating:8.8
Comments:
An intelligent jurist. If you follow the Code of Civil Procedure and the California Rules of Court, you will be fine in this courtroom. Make sure you actually meet and confer before you file your CMC statement. At summary judgment, make certain that your documents are properly formatted according to the code and rules of court. He is a stickler for rules/procedure, but I actually appreciate that about him. He is a judge, and you will know it being in his court.

Comment #: CA3281
Rating:6.3
Comments:
Judge Treu knows the Code of Civil Procedure and Court Rules by heart, and expects everyone else to know them equally well. He lives to find breaches of the rules, and will issue monetary sanctions for any violation, no matter how trivial. I guess he believes that will make us better lawyers, and maybe he is right. He reminds me of the stereotypical school teacher that walks around with a ruler, and whacks any kid who talks in class. If you can get past being treated like an undisciplined child, and not like an adult and professional (and he treats everyone that way, no matter how adult and professional), then you could do worse, because Judge Treu is smart and hard-working, and can be relied upon to read the papers and rule based on the law.

Comment #: CA2992
Rating:5.3
Comments:
I wouldn't go so far as to paper Judge Treu (because you could do much worse in Central), but he's FAR too strict. Judges like this make being an attorney suck. I think these types of judges either never practiced, or have forgotten how hard it is to be a civil litigator. He sanctions people without a hearing and is far too temperamental. If you miss a hearing, you're getting sanctioned, whether you were in a car crash, or your wife died that morning and you couldn't make it to court. You have to go into court ex parte to get relief, but is it even worth it at that point? To sanction someone without hearing their story is just so...not judge-like.

Make sure you have a CMC statement, because you're getting sanctioned if you don't have that too. I've actually had only favorable rulings in front of Judge Treu, but sooner or later, I will make a mistake, and it's going to be no sympathy whatsoever.

Ohh, and the clerk he has is just a miserable, little troll. God forbid you call his clerk with a question (not like that's his job or anything), because he's too busy to bother with you, unless it's to be condescending and make himself feel superior to the people around him who are actually successful in life.

Last time I was in this department, it was a different clerk. I hope that guy got fired (like that would ever happen in LASC), or just decided to do something else. My entire staff dreads calling the department because of this guy.

Comment #: CA2878
Rating:2.2
Comments:
difficult, inflexible, predisposed to use rules to deny relief rather than address merits, definitely not user friendly nor does he appear interested in being user friendly

Comment #: CA1868
Rating:1.0
Comments:
He is probably 170.6 worhty if there weren't so many other horrible judges in Central. He has a nasty disposition and he is petty. If you can get past that, he is an average judge.

Comment #: CA1108
Rating:8.3
Comments:
Obey every punctilio of the rules/code and you will be okay with this very competent judge, but watch out - he loves to issue $anction$.