Exceptions To Confidentiality of Communications Are Very Limited, and Showing Sancitonable Conduct Is Not One of the Exceptions In Foxgate Homeowners’ Association, Inc. v. Bramalea California, Inc., 26 Cal.4th 1, 108 Cal.Rptr.2d 642 (2001), the Supreme Court faced,”the intersection between court-ordered mediation, the confidentiality of which is mandated by law (Evid.Code, §§ 703.5, […]
. . . And Confidentiality Requirement in the Agreement Also Applies, Even if Local Rules Governing Settlement Communications Do Not Apply in Federal Court Sometimes the tone of a Court’s opinion gives a good clue as to the outcome. Such was the case in Facebook, Inc. v. Pacific Northwest Software, Inc., 640 F.3d […]
Dire Implications for Mediation Would Follow from Disqualification Plaintiff’s attorney became involved in two related lawsuits against the same defendant, a builder of an apartment building severely damaged by the Northridge earthquake and subsequently demolished. In the first lawsuit the attorney represented the builder’s lender and attended mediation. In the second lawsuit, the […]