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Did You Know ...
  
...  that you can get all the benefits of arbitration, but preserve the right to appeal an adverse decision, by stipulating to use a judicial reference in California?  (California Code of Civil Procedure Sections 638-645.1.)  Depending on the nature of the dispute, this might be a smart form of dispute resolution.
This Month's Articles
  
While "thinking like a lawyer" is difficult to define, developing legal strategies are an integral part of what we do as attorneys.  This month's articles discuss some of those issues which can arise in any defense attorney's practice:
 
General Liability: Nevada's decision on whether or not to follow the Restatement (Second) of Torts will affect how product liability claims are defended in Nevada.  Click here to read more.
 
Healthcare Litigation: Defending the deposition of a hospital employee who has changed jobs can trigger several appropriate objections.  Click here to read more.
 
Professional Liability: The California Supreme Court ordered a case depublished which had threatened to disrupt Cumis standards for insurer-retained defense counsel.  Click here to read more.
Claim College Overview

Rose Ayoub

 

As mentioned last month, attorney Rosaline S. Ayoub from our firm attended the inaugural session of Claims College, a program presented by Claims and Litigation Management Alliance for young lawyers.  Click here to read Rose's impressions of what she learned from it.

Caselaw Highlights 

 

Courts in California and Nevada have issued judicial opinions  in a variety of recent matters which may affect our clients' interests.  Click here to read more.

Legal Quote 
 

" ... [L]itigation is not a war game unmoored from conceptions of ethics, truth, and justice. It is quite the reverse. Our adversarial system limits the affirmative duties owed by an advocate to his adversary, but that does not mean it frees him to deceive courts, argue out of both sides of his mouth, fabricate facts and rules of law, or seek affirmatively to obscure the relevant issues and considerations behind a smokescreen of self-contradictions and opportunistic flip-flops."

 

Ferraro v. Camarlinghi, 161 Cal.App.4th 509, 558 (2008).

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