Trial Evidence: Part Two
If you want to be an effective trial advocate, you must understand the issue of relevance. Such understanding will boost your chances of persuading a judge to admit or deny questionable evidence and will help you plead and structure your entire case. To be relevant at trial, evidence must be probative of: (1) a witness’s credibility, […]
Toxic Torts
By Justin Bosl, of Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood I’m often asked by other lawyers what I practice. When I respond that I mostly handle abestos cases, I often hear “People still file those?” Here in Alameda County, asbestos litigation has been going strong for over 35 years. Judge Jo-Lynne Q. Lee presides over Alameda […]
M.O. Sabraw (1926-2013)
The Honorable Justice M.O. Sabraw or, as he modestly introduced himself, “Mo Sabraw” was a member of what Tom Brokaw called “The Greatest Generation any society has ever produced.” Born in Canada in the twenties and having grown up during the great depression, Mo and his family moved to the Bay Area in 1937. As […]
Bench Bar Coalition News – is Judiciary Budget Relief in Sight?
On January 9, 2014, Governor Brown announced his 2014-2015 budget proposal. In light of higher-than-expected state revenues, the proposal includes an increase of $105 million to the judicial branch ($100 million to trial courts and $5 million to the state-level judiciary). That is just over three percent of the $3.2 billion total operating budget for […]