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
- From the Section Chair
- 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
WORKING: CONVERSATIONS WITH ESSENTIAL WORKERS
BEHIND THE SCENES IN THE COURT SYSTEM
Written by Justice Elizabeth A. Grimes*
Inspired by Studs Terkel’s 1974 masterpiece Working, which rang out the voices of workers from all walks of life who described what they did all day and how they felt about their work, we decided to talk to some of the essential workers in the court system. This is the first of what may become an occasional series of interviews in which people who are not lawyers or judges talk about the work they do to support and keep the court system running smoothly.
Below are the words of Mabel Harman, an appellate court judicial assistant; Beverlee Nagata, a court reporter for the superior court; Erin Stenberg, a deputy juvenile correctional officer; Ed Nicholas, a deputy sheriff assigned to the courts; and Darnice Benton, an appellate court custodian. They were interviewed by Justice Elizabeth A. Grimes.