Mediation Twenty Years Later: A Cautionary Story and Proposed Reforms   By Gregory W. Herring, CFLS, AAML, IAFL With Cassandra T. Glanville, Esq.   In 1996 the California Law Revision Commission (“LRC”) developed and proposed legislation that eventually became the current mediation confidentiality statute, Evidence Code section 1119.[1]  As more and more litigation has flowed…

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“Disruptive Change” Needed Toward E-Discovery Competence Electronically stored information (“ESI”) is information that is stored in technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic or similar capabilities. Electronic Discovery, or e-discovery, is the use of legal means to obtain ESI in the course of litigation for evidentiary purposes.  Together, they constitute interesting and important considerations…

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