Litigation
Cal. Litig. VOLUME 37, ISSUE 2, AUGUST 2024
Content
- Chair's Farewell: a Look Back At the 2023-24 Term
- Courtroom or Conference Room: Considerations For Jury Trials V. Arbitration
- Editor's Foreword: We Thank and Excuse Paul Dubow
- Inside This Issue
- Interview With United States District Judge Rita F. Lin
- McLe Audits
- PAST SECTION CHAIRS & EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
- Proposition 65: the Ubiquitous, Yet Invisible Litigation
- SECTION OFFICERS & EDITORIAL BOARD
- Socrates's Trial
- Survival Actions After the 2021 Amendment To Code of Civil Procedure Section 377.34:
- Table of Contents
- The Civil Case Against O.J. Simpson
- The Shrinking Shelter of Relief From Jury Trial Waivers
- Understanding Key Distinctions In California State and Federal Privilege Law
- Your Face Belongs To Us: a Secretive Startup's Quest To End Privacy As We Know It
- A Drink With Perry
A DRINK WITH PERRY
Written by Judge Curtis E.A. Karnow.*
I have an autographed photograph of Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) in my chambers. He shares a wall with other luminaries — Cardozo, William Gibson, a monk, the judge I clerked for, Lou Reed, and others.
Burr — who used to live in Healdsburg, just north of us near the California coast — signed the photo for me; a birthday surprise from my wife. That was a long time ago. The ink has faded; his smile and dark-ringed eyes have not. Mason’s eyes are looking right at me. Do the right thing, he’s thinking.
My publisher secured the rights to have a picture of Mason on the cover of one of my books, Litigation in Practice (2017). It’s a still from the television series. Mason’s left arm rests on the witness stand. His eyes fix the witness, who looks down. He’s waiting for an answer. The judge looks on in the filmy distance. I have all 271 episodes (another superb birthday present) and no, I will never finish them.