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Smoke damage from wildfires is real; it deserves real resolution
July 23, 2025 - This art was created with the assistance of Shutterstock AI tools L os Angeles may never fully recover from the Palisades and Eaton fires. ...
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How a TV show helps resolve disputes
July 21, 2025 - MONDAY, JULY 21, 2025 Shutterstock If you watched the 1990s sitcom Seinfeld, you may remember George Costanza’s idea for a new holiday...
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Mediating Against a Public Entity – Daily Journal (July 2025)
July 17, 2025 - Shutterstock We all know the benefits of mediating disputes. Parties have control over their own destinies, the process is faster than trial an...
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Business disputes: Know when and how to mediate
July 01, 2025 - Shutterstock Business disputes can be messy and costly. Partners might disagree about how their shares should be di- vided; contractors might ch...
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The preclusive effect of class-action releases on future wage and hour claims
June 30, 2025 - This art was created with the assistance of Shutterstock AI tools Consider the following hypo- thetical: A worker files a wage and hour class-acti...
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Representing clients with mental health problems: At what cost?
June 27, 2025 - Shutterstock T oward the end of my ten- ure as a family law judge, I presided over a high- conflict case that indelibly imprinted itself in...
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Navigating Kaiser Permanente’s arbitration process
June 13, 2025 - Shutterstock When individuals suffer injury at the hands of medical professionals, they often seek resti- tution in court or through out-of- c...
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Family law crisis: Why divorce cases now take years and cost more
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Being Civil: It’s Not Just The Right Thing To Do, It’s Good Business!
June 01, 2025 - S ome people think the only way to be a good advocate is to be a pugnacious bulldog. After 25 years as a trial attorney and four years as a media...
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Reimagining ADR: Part II: Slaying the litigation dragon: institutional reforms to make mediation the first strike
May 20, 2025 - Shutterstock I n Part I of this series, I ex- plored pre-litigation pathways to expand the use of ADR to achieve its overall promise - ...
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Reimagining ADR: Part I: Mediation reigns, but the litigation beast lives on
May 19, 2025 - This art was created with the assistance of Shutterstock AI tools T en years ago, I published an article about the full panoply of ADR processe...
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Update On Generative AI Litigation: A Future Hanging In The Balance
May 09, 2025 - 28 TheSciTechLawyer SPRING 2025 Update on Generative AI Litigation A Future Hanging in the Balance By Ellie K. Vilendrer Ill u st ra ti o...