Litigation Section

Resolving conflict becomes faster and easier when dispute resolution professionals add visual communication to the process. That’s because humans are visually wired. So, when you bring visual language into the process, you amplify the effect of any intervention. Read more

During an informative, hour-long MCLE program, Mediator Stacie Feldman Hausner, Esq. shares information regarding the psychology behind negotiating decisions that can impact settlement. Stacie draws her information from her mediation experiences, her teaching curriculum at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine Law School, and her independent research. She will discuss the most prominent cognitive biases that impact settlement negotiations. She also will offer negotiating tactics to marginalize the impact of the biases and avoid impasse. Finally, she will share influence techniques that can optimize settlement outcomes. Read more

A monthly publication of the Litigation Section of the California Lawyers Association. Read more

A monthly publication of the Litigation Section of the California Lawyers Association. Read more

Short on Specialized MCLE credits? The end of the compliance period is fast approaching. Lucky for you the Litigation Section has you covered. Register today for the “One and Done” program on Friday, January 24 in San Diego. At this one day program you will receive all the required Specialized MCLE credits. The program includes one hour on Competence Issues and one hour in the Recognition and Elimination of Bias in the Legal Profession and Society. You will also receive four hours of Legal Ethics; three hours will be live and one hour will be an OnDemand webinar that you can access at your convenience. Read more

The Litigation Section held its 2019 “A Week in Legal London” program September 29 – October 4, 2019. Our Section Chair, George Wailes and ExCom member Ana Sambold attended—and they really enjoyed it! During the week, participants visited the major courts in London, attended trials, dined at the historical Inns of Court, and met barristers, solicitors, judges and prominent members of the British legal community including "Lady Hale," the Chief Justice of the UK’s new Supreme Court. Read more

Over 150 California attorneys attended the Annual Appellate and Litigation Summit at LA Live on September 20. Read more

As the new chair, I am pleased to carry on the good work of Tom Greene, the outgoing chair. Under Tom’s strong guidance, last year was another banner year for the Litigation Section. Highlights included the “So You Want to be a Judge” program co-sponsored with the California Women Lawyers in San Francisco, the Litigation and Appellate Summits in Los Angeles, a very informative program on international commercial arbitration presented in Los Angeles, the Week in Legal London program, and much, much more. Your Litigation Section membership brought to your inbox the Litigation Journal, the California Litigation Review, the monthly Litigation Update, and this newsletter, which you have told us are valued benefits of membership. Read more

A monthly publication of the Litigation Section of the California Lawyers Association. Read more

Buried in the Probate Code are dozens of immediately appealable orders for which the rule is to “use them or lose them”. Four veteran appellate and probate practitioners will walk you through those orders and offer insights and guidance on peculiarly probate appellate procedural issues. Read more