Litigation
Cal. Litig. VOLUME 37, ISSUE 2, AUGUST 2024
Content
- A Drink With Perry
- Chair's Farewell: a Look Back At the 2023-24 Term
- Courtroom or Conference Room: Considerations For Jury Trials V. Arbitration
- 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
- Editor's Foreword: We Thank and Excuse Paul Dubow
EDITOR’S FOREWORD: WE THANK AND EXCUSE PAUL DUBOW
Written by Benjamin G. Shatz*
Editor-in-Chief
This journal’s production depends on the dedication of a volunteer editorial board—which, following the parlance of our late managing editor, Stan Bachrach, we call the Eddy Board. The names of Eddy Board members are listed in the fine-print masthead of every issue.
This issue will be the last to include Paul J. Dubow as an Eddy Board member. Having joined the ranks of nonagenarians, Paul has decided to cut back on his bar activities. The loss is ours. Paul has been an active Eddy Board member for over 25 years. No other existing Eddy Board member has served anywhere near as long. His numerous articles have graced the pages of many issues of this journal. Paul was admitted to the California Bar in 1971. He spent the next 30 years conducting litigation at Dean Witter Reynolds, where he tried over 125 arbitrations as well as bench and jury trials. He became a full-time ADR practitioner in 2001, spending the next couple decades conducting hearings in over 250 arbitrations and over 325 mediations. In addition to his busy day job, Paul has been a devoted bar junkie, including as a CLA member providing invaluable service not just to this journal, but to the ADR Committee. We will miss Paul and wish him the best; or, as we litigators say, "we thank and excuse" Paul Dubow.
The name Paul Dubow isn’t the only other big name the appear in this issue: Reading the articles in this issue will re-introduce you to Perry Mason, O.J. Simpson, and Socrates. Really! Judge Curtis Karnow kicks things off with A Drink With Perry about some lessons to be had from one of the greatest fictional lawyers of all time. Sure, TV lawyering isn’t "real," but Judge Karnow points out how emulating the professionalism of fictional lawyers would benefit actual practice.