Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2019, Volume 32, Number 1
Content
- California Confidential What Happens In Mediation May Not Stay In Mediation
- Editor's Foreword: Singularly First Person
- From the Section Chair Opportunities for Service
- Masthead
- MCLE Test Questions for Self-Study Test (1 hour of credit)
- Psychology and Persuasion in Settlement
- Running for Judge What I Gained Besides a Judgeship
- Table of Contents
- The Fight Over Martins Beach: Convincing the Supreme Court to Deny a Tech Tycoon's Attempt to Cut Off Public Beach Access
- The Nudge Principle Prompts a Drop in Demurrer Filings
- Tough Cases Canan, Mize & Weisberg, eds. (the New Press, N.Y. 2018)
- We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler
- Why I Am a Cla Litigation Section Member
Why I Am a CLA Litigation Section Member
By David D. Wong
David D. Wong
The State Bar Annual Meetings ended in 2017. Those meetings played a significant role in helping me become a better litigator. While I was skeptical about going to in-person MCLE classes, which I thought would be boring and expensive, I discovered I was wrong after attending a few. I learned so many things to make my law practice better. I wish I had gone when I first started practicing law.
My participation in State Bar meetings changed my life. I thought I knew what the classes would cover, but I was wrong. Whatever the course topic was, I found the interaction with the speakers as well as colleagues in the audience to be helpful. The cost of the conference paid for itself many times over with at least one good idea that changed the outcome of one of my cases.