Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2023, Volume 36, Issue 2
Content
- A Litigator's Guide To Vacatur: Overturning An Arbitration Award
- A Trial Lawyer In Full: the Life and Career of James J. Brosnahan
- Are You Savvy About Arbitration?
- California's Gun Purchase Waiting Period: a History of the Future
- Five Non-legal Books Every Young Litigator Should Read
- From the Section Chair
- Meet Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett (C.D. Cal.)
- PAST SECTION CHAIRS & EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
- SECTION OFFICERS & EDITORIAL BOARD
- Table of Contents
- The Best Way To Destroy An Enemy Is To Make Him a Friend
- The Need To Update California's International Arbitration Code
- What's Next With the Client Trust Accounting Protection Program?
- Why I Did It the Way I Did It
- You Are Not An American: Citizenship From Dred Scott To the Dreamers
- Editor's Foreword
EDITOR’S FOREWORD
MUCKRAKER, HERO, MENSCH
Written by Benjamin G. Shatz
Editor-in-Chief
Long ago this publication gave up themed-issues in favor of varied articles in every issue. But there is a thematic connection between two articles in this issue. First, Dan Lawton provides a book review/interview with James Brosnahan, our cover boy. His name is legendary in the litigation world, and he was our Section’s inductee into the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame back in 1996. To many he is a hero. But despite gracing our cover, the Brosnahan article is not the first article in this issue. Instead, that pride of place goes to Jon Eisenberg’s Why I did it the way I did it.
Jon is a different kind of hero altogether. Yes, he was inducted into this Section’s Appellate Lawyer Hall of Fame back in 2019. But that was based on past achievements, not his current fame (or infamy). Perceiving a serious problem in an appellate district, he stepped forward to follow his conscience and embarked on a long crusade, first to gather supporting data, and then to forcefully present that data and its consequences-regardless of potential consequences to himself. Few lawyers would do this. Jon was not the only one to notice, but he was the only one to doggedly research and push the issue. His muckraking is probably not acclaimed in some quarters, and some openly questioned his methods. He addresses that public criticism now. With or without any explanation, he remains in the minds of many, a courageous hero. Read his piece and draw your own conclusions.