Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2023, Volume 35, Issue 3
Content
- California's Commitment To Wage Transparency Comes At a Cost To Employers
- Confessions From An Electronic Platform 2022: Appellate Argument
- Disclosure of Litigation Funding Arrangements: Much Ado About Nothing
- Don't Let Your Client's Bequest Be a Lawsuit
- Editor's Foreword
- Fraud As Hyperreality
- Governmental Entity Litigation: the Mirror Dimension
- New Federal Legislation Raises Dueling Experts: What Olean Might Mean For the Future of Class Certification In the Ninth Circuit
- PAST SECTION CHAIRS & EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
- Q & A WITH JUDGE VINCE CHHABRIA OF THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
- SECTION OFFICERS & EDITORIAL BOARD
- Smashing Statues: the Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments
- Table of Contents
- The California Supreme Court In Judicial Year 2021-2022: Emerging From the Pandemic
- The Hastings College of the Law Name Change: the Real Deal About the Bad and the Ugly
- The Supreme Court's Five Arbitration Decisions
- Working: Conversations With Essential Workers
- From the Section Chair
FROM THE SECTION CHAIR
OUR MISSION
Written by Mary McKelvey
Chair
It is my great honor to step into the position of Chair of the Litigation Section of the California Lawyers Association (CLA) and follow in the footsteps of so many impressive leaders who have paved the way before me. The Litigation Section’s mission is, in part, to promote excellence in all areas affecting dispute resolution and the protection and preservation of the independence of a high-quality judiciary. I would add a commitment to promote and support diversity in the practice of law in California and to build a collaborative culture within the community to create greater access to and opportunities for justice. Of late, we have experienced far too much of the opposite and in fact it seems there is no advanced democracy in the world more divided over important social, racial and gender issues than the United States. As lawyers we have been uniquely trained to think analytically, weigh facts and evidence, rely on the rule of law and to move the needle towards just ends. Keeping our legal skills sharp and our legal communities strong are the greatest contributions we can make to ensuring our rule of law retains its vitality and that the equality and dignity of all persons remains a possibility.
To that end, we embrace the following tenets of the CLA strategic pillars: