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Finding your way to the exit in the labyrinth of mediation
September 27, 2024 - Shutterstock Greg Derin is a mediator and arbi- trator at Signature Resolution. He can be reached at gderin@signa- tureresolution.com S eeking a m...
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Legal loopholes: Navigating third-party subpoena restrictions in pretrial discovery
September 24, 2024 - This art was created with the assistance of Shutterstock AI tools W hen litigants prepare their cases, they invest considerable effort from th...
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Settlements in joint tortfeasor cases: A guide to the good faith standard
September 13, 2024 - Shutterstock Imagine that a worker is sub-jected to unlawful discrimina-tion in the workplace. It turns out that worker isn’t on the company’s...
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Addressing implicit bias starts with looking at ‘The man in the mirror’
August 20, 2024 - ...
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Hitting the target no one else can see
August 13, 2024 - Shutterstock I recently came across a blog post entitled “Imagination vs. Creativity,” by Venkatesh Rao, the founder and editor of a site c...
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‘Severe or Pervasive’ in sexual harassment cases: Is one incident enough?
August 07, 2024 - By Angela Reddock-Wright ‘Severe or Pervasive’ in sexual harassment cases: Is one incident enough? WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2024 TO P Labor ...
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Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book explores missed opportunities in Cuban relations
July 24, 2024 - The New York Times Richard Goodwin I n her latest book, “An Unfin- ished Love Story, A Personal History of the 1960s,” Pulitzer Prize-winni...
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You can’t buy happiness or a bankruptcy discharge
July 19, 2024 - Shutterstock O n June 27, 2024, in Har-rington v. Purdue Pharma L.P., the Supreme Court sided with the Fifth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits in rulin...
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Woman judges: Different but equal
June 19, 2024 - SHUTTERSTOCK T he American legal system was forever changed on the day in 1981 when San- dra Day O’Connor joined the U.S. Supreme Court. Man...
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When lawyers are judged by their looks
June 03, 2024 - Despite the presence of women at every level of law - from court clerks to Supreme Court justices - the fact of their “woman-ness” is inescapab...
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Signature Resolution will open Silicon Valley office
May 10, 2024 - S ignature Resolution an- nounced Thursday that it would open a Silicon Valley office this fall. The new office will be the ADR firm’s fift...
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For want of a nail: In re Marriage of Lietz
May 02, 2024 - Shutterstock T he recent case of In re Marriage of Lietz ((2024) 99 Cal.App.5th 664) offers direction on the use of ex- pert testimony in famil...