Today's DJ has a special supplement: Leading Commercial Litigators 2025. Among the listed honorees are some appellate lawyers, including Ted Boutrous, Ray Cardozo, and Theane Evangelis. There is also an article of appellate note by Barry Landsberg and Joanna McCallum: California's new arbitration amendment is a legal tangle waiting to be unwound argues that:
The Legislature's 2024 amendment to Code of Civil Procedure section 1294(a)--which singles out appeals from orders denying or dismissing petitions to compel arbitration and deprives them of the automatic stay of trial court proceedings that applies to nearly every other pending appeal--is yet another "new way[] to disfavor arbitration" that might produce another [] Supreme Court rebuke.
BHBA presents Protecting Your Verdict, to be held 2/26/2025 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Travis Davis will discuss the necessary steps to turn your successful verdict into a valuable judgment. Travis has considerable experience in the post-trial realm, protecting multiple seven, eight, and even a nine-figure verdict. In this webinar, he will discuss drafting the proposed judgment, calendaring important deadlines, bringing post-trial motions to increase the value of your judgment, and protecting your verdict against post-trial attacks.
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