Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2014, Volume 27 Number 1
Content
- Masthead
- Table of Contents
- From the Section Chair
- Hypotheticals on Litigational Plagiarism:
- Editor's Foreword Signing On: Big Shoes to Fill
- Another Amazing Year in the Supreme Court
- Officers of a Court Do Not Plagiarize
- Plagiarism: Naughty, Knotty
- Can Use of Administrative Procedures Expedite Complex State Court Civil Litigation?
- Can We Shorten This Trial?
- Statements of Decision: Errors, Omissions, and Solutions
- The Perils of Punishing Public Employees for Protected Speech: Applying Pickering v. Board of Education to Posts and Pins
- Adr Update: Can Post-Award Searches Vacate Arbitration Awards?
- Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame (2004): 62 Years in the Practice of Law
- "I Learned About Litigating from That" In Memory of Joel a. Cohen
- McDermott On Demand: Ozymandias?
- Litigation Section Executive Committee Past Chairs
- Past Editors-in-Chief
Editor’s Foreword Signing On: Big Shoes to Fill
By Benjamin G. Shatz
Benjamin G. Shatz
Your immediate past Editor-in-Chief, John Derrick, had a pre-law background as a publisher and editor. John was an outstanding Editor-in-Chief, and had he chosen to decree himself Editor-in-Chief-for-Life, the Section leadership no doubt would have responded with a cheer. Alas, one of the best parts of volunteer work is calling it a day and passing the torch. Hence, John’s farewell Editor’s Foreword in our last issue displayed near giddy delight in relinquishing the administrative reins, allowing the heady joy of freedom to drive his purple prose ever upward in prematurely extolling his successor. (Too bad his column lacks an audio feature, because his encomiums would indubitably sound even more creditable in his impeccable Received Pronunciation, or â for you non-linguistics majors out there â his refined British accent.)
This is not the first time I’ve followed in John’s footsteps â literally. John is addicted to half-marathons, seemingly running one every month or so. I am not a runner. But with his encouragement, I followed him â as best I could â in completing the Santa Barbara half last November. Thus I know I have big shoes to fill, because I have seen his actual shoes racing off into the distance ahead of me.