Law Offices of Joseph C. Markowitz
Blog URL http://www.jcmarkowitz.com
Located Los Angeles, California USA
Tags law, law practice, civil procedure, employment law, intellectual property, trials, litigation
Los Angeles-based trial lawyer blogging about civil procedure, interesting cases, and law practice.
Latest Blog Posts
- Dealing with "Frivolous" Lawsuits on Nov 12, 2009 in civil procedure Supreme Court federal courts
Congress is currently considering legislation that would reverse the Supreme Court's decisions in Iqbal and Twombley, discussed here previously. These decisions have significantly raised the standard for pleading a viable complaint in federal court,...
- Hard Cases Create Hard Times for Arbitration. on Oct 7, 2009 in arbitration
Senator Al Franken succeeded in getting his first piece of legislation passed, an amendment to a defense appropriations bill that would prohibit defense contractors from requiring employees to submit to mandatory arbitration. The amendment was promp...
- Boilerplate Discovery Objections on Sep 25, 2009 in discovery
It is common practice, at least in California, for parties to serve written objections to nearly every interrogatory and document demand to which they respond. Notwithstanding those objections, parties frequently provide answers to the objected-to i...
- Constitutional Rights for High Schoolers on Sep 20, 2009 in constitutional law
This week I volunteered for the first time to participate in a program the Los Angeles County Bar Association has been running for seven years, called Dialogues on Freedom, in which lawyers and judges lead class discussions in public high schools abo...
- Federal Rules Counter-Revolution on Aug 17, 2009 in discovery civil procedure federal courts
A report issued this spring by the American College of Trial Lawyers Task Force on Discovery and the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, made a number of recommendations that would reverse many of the most basic reforms of the...
- Consumer Arbitration on the Way Out on Aug 14, 2009 in arbitration
Another sign that consumer arbitration clauses are going the way of the dinosaur came from Bank of America, which has decided to remove pre-dispute arbitration clauses from its credit card agreements. The bank states that the decision was made in re...
- Is blogging advertising? on Aug 6, 2009 in law practice blogging
Some comfort for attorneys who might be worried that their blogs could be deemed to be advertising and therefore subject to bar association rules and the like, came from the New York Court of Appeals last month. In Stern v. Bluestone, New York's hig...
