Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2018, Volume 31, Number 3
Content
- A Dozen Brilliant Litigation Strategies That Backfire in Arbitration
- From the Section Chair Looking back; looking forward
- Masthead
- New Liberty From Liability Insurance Coverage Worries
- Past Chairs of the Litigation Section
- Past Editors-in-Chief
- Resolving Discovery Disputes in Federal Courts
- Strengthening the Civil Jury
- Table of Contents
- Ten Tips for Writing a Winning Arbitration Brief
- The California Supreme Court, 2017-2018: Coping With a Short Bench
- The E-Word: Emotions, Women, and the Law
- The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption by Richard L. Hasen
- What Is Neutral-Driven Dispute Resolution (Ndr) and When Do I Need It?
- Editor's Foreword: Full Courts
Editor’s Foreword: Full Courts
By Benjamin G. Shatz, Editor-in-Chief
We now have full supreme courts again, with our high benches at full strength in Washington, D.C. and here in California. Our Golden State-wait lasted 18 months, during which time the six sitting justices were joined by a parade of pro tems to fill the vacant spot. How the Supreme Court handled that situation—and much more—is discussed in Kirk Jenkins’ article, The California Supreme Court, 2017-2018: Coping With a Short Bench. Kirk takes over as our California Supreme Court correspondent from Professor Jerry Uelmen. Just as we’ve lost our long-time, Peter Siu, to retirement (see page 2), Jerry too has decided to hang up his court-watching/writing spurs. But we are fortunate to have Kirk crunch the numbers for us and share the insights that come from a quantitative attention to detail.
As we all now know—but didn’t know when Peter painted our cover— the open seat on our Supreme Court has been bestowed on Josh Groban. Many non-lawyer music-lovers were no doubt confused by the headline Josh Groban Joins The Supremes. But we know who the real star is and look forward to displaying his shayna punim in this publication sometime soon.
From the judiciary’s pinnacle, we plunge to the depths of trial court practice. In Strengthening the Civil Jury authors Anna Offit and Richard Jolly explore how changes to business as usual could improve jury trials. With improvement as a theme, our Section’s Federal Courts Committee provides us with a primer on Resolving Discovery Disputes in Federal Courts, written by Alyson Berg and Kristina Strottman.