Common Misunderstandings Regarding Notice of Related Cases

Rachael Kogen is a Partner at Fraser, Watson & Croutch and joined the firm in 2009. Her practice focuses on the defense of healthcare institutions and healthcare providers in complex medical malpractice and elder abuse litigation.

Ms. Kogen is a member of the Beverly Hills Bar Association Board of Governors. She is the 2025 Chair of the Executive Committee for the BHBA Litigation Section. She is an active member of LACBA President’s Advisory Committee on Women in the Legal Profession and several other bar associations in Southern California. Ms. Kogen was the 2020 and 2021 President of the Southeast District Bar Association of Los Angeles County (SEDBA).

Randolph M. Hammock is a Superior Court Judge, currently sitting in an Independent Calendar (“IC”) Court at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse, in which he presides over unlimited civil cases. He graduated from San Diego State University (1980) and the University of San Diego, School of Law (1983). During his almost 25 years of practicing law (primarily as a civil trial attorney), Judge Hammock was admitted to and actively practiced law in a total of 15 states, as well as over 20 federal district courts and courts of appeal. As such, he is likely to have had passed more bar exams than any other practicing lawyer in the United States. He was a member of LATLA/CAALA from the mid 1980s to his appointment as a Superior Court Referee in the juvenile dependency court in 2008, where he served until he was elected as a Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court in 2010. He has been a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) since 2000.