“Take this!”

Steps a mediator can take to keep negotiation on track or restart it when all seems lost

Jeffrey Krivis

From Issue: 2012 September

Wage-and-hour class actions: The sky is falling (or is it?)

After Brinker and Duran, what lies ahead?

Bryan Schwartz

From Issue: 2012 September

Show and tell

Up until trial, the adjuster and defense lawyer are your jurors

Miles B. Cooper

From Issue: 2012 September

Profile: Rick Simons

After 36 years, he finds satisfaction representing clergy abuse victims and he’s still banging around the hockey puck

Stephen Ellison

From Issue: 2012 September

Day laborers and homeowner liability

What happens when the tree trimmer hired by the homeowner falls from the tree?

Christopher Viadro

From Issue: 2012 September

Beware the “Hallelujah!” mediator

Accepting a mediator without understanding their training, experience, style and methodology can cause you to lose control of your case

Nancy Neal Yeend

From Issue: 2012 September

When is toxic mold litigation not toxic mold litigation?

To settle with an insurer, you must maneuver around the exclusions for mold and focus on varied tenant claims that arise from an uninhabitable rental unit

Eric L. Lifschitz
Aaron H. Darsky

From Issue: 2012 September

The five steps of mediation (and negotiation)

Mediation is a facilitated negotiation. You’ll do better adhering to the five predictable stages

Alexander Polsky

From Issue: 2012 September

Read the lease — for your office and that copier

You don’t have much choice but to rent an office; leasing equipment is a different story

David Cook

From Issue: 2012 September

How to fail at mediation without really trying

Eight signs that your mediation is likely to fail and how to avoid the wasted time and expense

John H. Feeney
Adam M. Koss

From Issue: 2012 September

Cal Supreme Court throws out old common law “release rule”

Hospital must pay large damage award even though the settlement with the defendant physician was found not to be in good faith

From Issue: 2012 September

Appellate Reports and Cases in Brief

Recent cases of interest to members of the plaintiffs’ bar

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2012 September