by Marvin Schuldiner | Sep 12, 2008 | Commercial Mediation, Lawsuits, Off Beat
They’re back again. One of my favorite blogging topics, the (former) judge and his $54 million pants lawsuit. I’ve written before about Judge Roy Pearson’s lawsuit against a dry cleaner for losing a pair of pants. As you will recall, he lost his...
by Marvin Schuldiner | Sep 10, 2008 | Commercial Mediation
Yesterday, the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal released a report entitled “Interim Report on Problems Associated with Discovery”. Discovery is the pre-trial process where each side engaged in...
by Marvin Schuldiner | Sep 10, 2008 | Commercial Mediation
There are many reasons why disputes do not settle, in mediation or outside of it. Often, a party is just not ready — it’s the wrong time for them. They need more information or they need more time to assimilate, absorb and assess information given to...
by Marvin Schuldiner | Aug 1, 2008 | Commercial Mediation
Jeff Bleich, president of the California State Bar, writes in the California Bar Journal about how the legal system is beginning to fail the middle class due to the high costs of the legal system. He makes an analogy to the medical profession and doctors and how the...
by Marvin Schuldiner | Aug 1, 2008 | Arbitration, Commercial Mediation, Lawsuits
A federal court in California recently ruled that a company who did not mediate their dispute prior to filing suit, according to the agreement between the parties, will have its case dismissed. In Brosnan v. Dry Cleaning Systems Inc, plaintiff entered a dry cleaning...
by Marvin Schuldiner | Jul 29, 2008 | Commercial Mediation
The NJ Court system has set time goals for disposing of cases that are filed in their system. They rate cases by vicinage (county) and case type (criminal, civil, family, municipal, etc.). The report for the year July 2007 through June 2008 has just been published...
