Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2021, Volume 34, Number 2
Content
- EDITOR'S FOREWORD PPP = POST-Pandemic Planning
- FROM THE SECTION CHAIR The Best Is Yet to Come
- How to Strike the Answer of a Non-Participating Defendant
- Jury Trials in the COVID-19 Era: The Importance of a Predetermined Trial Plan
- Masthead
- Navigating the Adversary Proceeding in Bankruptcy for General Litigators
- Recovering Attorney Fees in Arbitration
- Revisiting California's No-Citation Rule
- Sheppard Mullin and Beyond: Advance Waivers, Disclosures, and Arbitration Agreements
- Table of Contents
- The CAA v. The FAA: The Dangerous Differences
- The Future of the Virtual Courthouse
- The Once and Future Office Market: A Tale of Complexity and Change for Lawyers
- Two #MeToos — A Pair of Book Reviews: "She Said" & "Catch and Kill"
- Remedies for the Courthouse Flu: How to Get Your Civil Case Tried During the COVID-19 Crisis
Remedies for the Courthouse Flu: How to Get Your Civil Case Tried During the COVID-19 Crisis
By Honorable Allan Goodman (Ret.)
Hon. Allan Goodman (Ret.), now an arbitrator, mediator, and discovery referee with ADR Services, Inc., was a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge and periodically an Associate Justice Pro Tem on the Second District Court of Appeal from 1995 through 2019. JudgeGoodman@ ADRServices.com
Civil litigators are seeking ways to expeditiously resolve their clients’ pending lawsuits while judges throughout California redouble their efforts to provide safe spaces in which those cases can be tried.
Even as trials resume in court facilities, the COVID-19 induced backlog of criminal cases, Code of Civil Procedure section 36 preference cases, and unlawful detainer cases, among others, are likely to substantially delay civil trial starting dates in most civil cases well into late 2021 and 2022.