Lit Tip Of The Week:™ Practical Advice For Litigators
Recovering Past Medical Expenses In California Personal Injury LawsuitsThe California Supreme Court in Howell v. Hamilton Meats clarified the rules for...
Where You Sue (or Get Sued) MattersYou may have a choice of courts in which to file your California personal injury...
The “Fine Print” In Contracts Does MatterFew clients care about the contractual boilerplates – until their business dispute...
San Francisco Superior Court Law & Motion TipsJudges Peter Busch and Loretta Giorgi, who preside over the Law and Motion Departments...
Sample Deposition Questions In Personal Injury CasesThis week’s litigation tip expands on my article, “The Top Ten Killer...
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S.F. Superior Court’s Closure of One Law & Motion Courtroom Will Lead to Big ChangesEffective October 3, 2011, San Francisco Superior Court is closing one of its two...
San Francisco Jail Strip Search Policy Upheld by Courts Based on Record of Contraband SmugglingSeptember 2010 — A federal appellate court has ruled that San Francisco’s...
Learn about the effect of the California Supreme Court’s Howell v. Hamilton Meats decision on valuing medical damages in personal injury lawsuits.The Bar Association of San Francisco is sponsoring a seminar Sept. 28, 2011, on the...
Ninth Circuit Sends Mixed Signals In Strip Search CaseThere were three opinions written — a majority, concurrence and dissent —...
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Race, Gender, Jury Selection and David MametJuries try their best to decide cases based on the facts and the law. They don’t always succeed. Effective lawyers understand the limits of juror fairness and their ability to put aside preconceived notions. David Mamet’s play Race, which I saw this week in San Francisco, is a perceptive look at how trial lawyers navigate the unspoken value... [Read more of this article]
San Francisco business attorney David Newdorf helps obtain ruling from California Supreme Court that will save business and governments billions annually.SAN FRANCISCO (August 18, 2011 ) – The California Supreme Court ruled this week that court awards to accident victims for past medical expenses must be limited to the amounts actually paid and accepted as payment in full by medical care providers. The case pitted personal injury lawyers against doctors, hospitals, local government and insurers who... [Read more of this article]
What Happened To Heller Ehrman — And Who’s Next?Until very recently, Heller Ehrman LLP was a mainstay of the San Francisco legal community. Today it is gone. Virtually overnight, a firm that in 2007 grossed $471 million and spun off $1 million in profits per partner has vanished. I’m not an alarmist by nature, but what happened at Heller – just a block from my own office at Bush and... [Read more of this article]
What Every Litigator Can Learn from the Four Stages of a MarathonPeople sometimes ask me what I think about while out on long runs. Before the sore muscles and aching joints recede into memory, I thought I’d share some of my musings from the San Francisco Marathon on August 3, 2008. It occurred to me that long-distance running and litigation have a lot in common. So while bounding through Potrero Hill, on my... [Read more of this article]
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