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Jul 27, 2015 Alana H. Rotter
One Bite of the Apple, Los Angeles Daily Journal (July 27, 2015)

Los Angeles Daily Journal (July 27, 2015)Code of Civil Procedure section 473(b) offers lawyers an important lifeline – in certain circumstances, it requires the court to vacate a default judgment resulting from attorney mistake or neglect. But what happens when the court rejects as lawyer’s

Jul 02, 2015
True Friends Offer Something New, Appellate Issues (Summer 2014)

This article appears in the online publication Appellate Issues, published by the ABA’s Judicial Division Appellate Judges Conference Council of Appellate Lawyers. Read Article

Jul 02, 2015
Improved Adequacy through Improved Accuracy: Rule 10(e) and the Record on Appeal, Appellate Issues (Summer 2015)

This article appears in the online publication Appellate Issues, published by the ABA’s Judicial Division Appellate Judges Conference Council of Appellate Lawyers. Read Article 

Apr 09, 2015
Receipts, Records and Class Actions, Daily Journal (April 9, 2015)

Should ascertainability present a low hurdle for small-dollar class action plaintiffs or should courts be more demanding as to the reliability of proposed class members’ “say-so”?  Geoff Kehlmann reviews the cases in the Ninth Circuit that have teed up this question in an April 9,

Mar 25, 2015
In a March 25, 2015 Daily Journal article, Alana Rotter offers guidance on determining whether a “judgment” is final and appealable

California Code of Civil Procedure section 904.1 permits appeals from final judgments, but not from most interlocutory judgments. In the Daily Journal, Alana Rotter explains how to determine whether a judgment is final for appellate purposes and discusses a recent California Court of Appeal decision

Mar 25, 2015 Alana H. Rotter
Lessons from appeals of nonappealable ‘judgments’, Los Angeles Daily Journal (March 25, 2015)

California Code of Civil Procedure section 904.1 permits appeals from final judgments, but not from most interlocutory judgments. In the Daily Journal, Alana Rotter explains how to determine whether a judgment is final for appellate purposes and discusses a recent California Court of Appeal decision

Feb 02, 2015 Timothy T. Coates
Federal Civil Rights Act, California Governmental Tort Liability Practice (CEB)
Feb 02, 2015
E-Discovery: Lean, Green, but Not Unseen, Appellate Issues (Winter 2015)

This article appears in the online publication Appellate Issues, published by the ABA’s Judicial Division Appellate Judges Conference Council of Appellate Lawyers. Read Article

Feb 02, 2015
Q&A With Lawyers & Judges, Appellate Issues (Winter 2015)

This article appears in the online publication Appellate Issues, published by the ABA’s Judicial Division Appellate Judges Conference Council of Appellate Lawyers. Read Article

Jan 08, 2015
ICSID jurisdiction over international mass investment arbitrations: Due process and default rules, 51 Stan. J. Int’l. L. 173 (2015)

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