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In today's newsletter:

  • Why did Equator Coffee suddenly shut its Culver City café?
  • How a former Culver City lawyer became a sought-after family mediator

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📰 News we're reading

• Equator Coffee Abruptly Closes Culver City Location, Exits Los Angeles Market (westsidetoday.com) — Equator Coffee has abruptly closed its Culver City café at Ivy Station, laying off baristas and cooks just days before the holidays and ending the company’s presence in Los Angeles. Staff have launched a short-term GoFundMe to help cover rent and basic expenses while they search for new work, marking yet another recent loss in the local coffee and restaurant scene.
   

• Family Matters (dailyjournal.com subscription) — A retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge now working in private mediation once spent a decade early in her career at a Culver City law office, grounding her family-law expertise in local practice. She now uses techniques like strategic silence to keep emotional negotiations on track, drawing on decades of courtroom and settlement experience. Her path shows how long-term local legal work can evolve into high-level dispute resolution.
   

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