Appellate articles of note

Jake Dear, the Cal Supreme Court's Chief Supervising Attorney, has an article in today's DJ about An Extraordinary and Influential California Supreme Court Staff Attorney, which traces the storied career of Harold "Hal" Cohen, who "had no inkling that his one-year Tobriner clerkship would turn into a lifetime career with the court in San Francisco," working for Justices Tobriner, Kaus, Grodin, Arguelles, Kennard, Broussard, CJ George, and CJ Cantil-Sakauye. Hal announced he would retire this past July. "what he's given to the institution and to the law will live on -- not only in the 127 volumes of California Reports published while he worked for eight justices (and with 28 other justices of the Supreme Court during that same period) -- but also in the example he has set for all of us, and the standards to which those of us who remain, and those who will join the court staff in the future, aspire." A "full version of this article to be published in December in the California Supreme Court Historical Society's Review."

Tuesday's DJ had GMSR's Jeffrey Raskin's article 'Healthy lawyerly paranoia': Federal Appeal Deadlines, about the 9th Cir.'s opinion in Nutrition Distribution LLC v. IronMag Labs, LLC (9th Cir. Oct. 29, 2020), which addresses federal tolling motions.

Also noteworthy: Law Clerk Hiring Plan Extended -- The Judiciary’s Federal Law Clerk Hiring Pilot Plan, which makes the judicial clerkship hiring process more transparent and uniform, has been extended for two years after getting good reviews from both law school deans and judges. Law.com's story is here.

And CLA Litigation Section's November 2020 Litigation Update is available here.