Advocate Oct23 cvr ezine

Articles in this issue:

Big crash, big problem

Getting collision photos and videos into evidence when the defense admits liability but objects to your evidence


Discovery and the social-media influencer

How to protect your case during discovery when your client earns income as a social-media influencer


Avoiding defense traps in slip-and-fall cases against Costco

Here’s your game plan to litigate against Costco, including a trove of discovery documents that may prove invaluable


Discovery aimed at defeating an arbitration clause in employment cases

Seeking pre-hearing discovery relating to a defendant’s motion to compel arbitration could make the difference in keeping your client’s claims in court


The evidence is gone…now what?

Overcoming obstacles caused by defendant’s destruction or failure to preserve evidence


A new lawyer’s guide to basic discovery rules

Responding to written discovery including interrogatories, production of documents and requests for admission


Deposing the verifier of an entity-defendant’s discovery responses

Corporate defendants have a strained understanding of their duty when it comes to verifying discovery. Here’s why you should take the verifier’s deposition


Unwinding the statute-of-limitations clock

Using the delayed-discovery rule to save your case


The Fifth Amendment in civil cases

The right against self-incrimination cuts both ways


Navigating pupil privacy laws

A guide for attorneys in litigation against school districts


The objection “calls for expert opinion” in a medical malpractice deposition

When deposing a physician defendant, asking about expectations is an effective way to circumvent objections that the question “calls for expert testimony”


Visual aids from pleadings through trial

A brief overview of what demonstrative evidence you can get admitted and when to use it


Appellate Reports

Cal Supreme court rules on an employer’s agent’s liability in FEHA cases; also, products liability claims based on absence of a safety feature that would have prevented the accident


“Fall in” with TLC

Oct. 28 Day of Dignity in LA; Nov. 14 Orangewood Children’s Home special meal in the OC



Wrapping up the 2023 legislative session – a winner!

State convention is November 16, and we’re looking ahead to 2024 including the election


Top Gun Award for PI Lawyer of the Year goes to Eric Traut

Medical Malpractice – Dan Hodes; Employment – Bijan Darvish; Distinguished Achievement Appellate Law – Jeffrey Ehrlich; Young Gun Award – Michael Jeandron