Events

This panel will explore the role of unconscious bias in firm/company politics including profit-sharing and building teams for large scale projects.

Effective January 1, 2019, a new California law will require practitioners to ensure that their client, before agreeing to mediation, understands the implications of California's legal protections for mediation communications. Join us for this program and learn the key concepts of mediation confidentiality, what type of information is protected under the confidentiality rules, the impact of confidentiality on discoverability and admissibility, exceptions to mediation confidentiality, and what practitioners must do to satisfy the new disclosure requirements.

Master mediators from Southern California will share their perspectives on practices that help or hinder achieving settlement and client satisfaction in mediation.

This presentation explores the various ways that litigants can recover attorney’s fees in California construction litigation and arbitration, including those allowed by contract, by statute, on public and private construction, against the owner, contractor, subcontractor, and surety, and by the rules of arbitration.

The world grows increasingly adversarial, but what happens in real estate litigation when adversaries are friends? Attorneys David Fu, Rinat Erlich, and Jose Mendoza frequently oppose each other in the real estate broker litigation space, and will address the benefits and challenges when frequently in opposition, with the underlying conclusion that cases settle faster and with less expense when opponents cooperate.