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Law Offices of Joseph C. Markowitz

Law Offices of Joseph C. Markowitz

http://www.jcmarkowitz.com

This blog discusses a variety of law-related topics, with a focus on litigation, the rules of civil procedure, employment law, commercial law, and other interests related to my practice.

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  • Hard Cases Create Hard Times for Arbitration.

    Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 18:07 in arbitration

    Senator Al Franken succeeded in getting his first piece of legislation passed, an amendment to a defense appropriations bill that would prohibit defense contractors from requiring employees to submit to mandatory arbitration. The amendment was promp...

  • Boilerplate Discovery Objections

    Posted on Friday September 25th, 2009 at 18:51 in discovery

    It is common practice, at least in California, for parties to serve written objections to nearly every interrogatory and document demand to which they respond. Notwithstanding those objections, parties frequently provide answers to the objected-to i...

  • Constitutional Rights for High Schoolers

    Posted on Sunday September 20th, 2009 at 02:53 in constitutional law

    This week I volunteered for the first time to participate in a program the Los Angeles County Bar Association has been running for seven years, called Dialogues on Freedom, in which lawyers and judges lead class discussions in public high schools abo...

  • Federal Rules Counter-Revolution

    Posted on Monday August 17th, 2009 at 11:36 in discovery, civil procedure, federal courts

    A report issued this spring by the American College of Trial Lawyers Task Force on Discovery and the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, made a number of recommendations that would reverse many of the most basic reforms of the...

  • Consumer Arbitration's Death Throes

    Posted on Friday August 14th, 2009 at 14:54 in arbitration

    Another sign that consumer arbitration clauses are going the way of the dinosaur came from Bank of America, which has decided to remove pre-dispute arbitration clauses from its credit card agreements. The bank states that the decision was made in re...

  • Is blogging advertising?

    Posted on Thursday August 6th, 2009 at 16:06 in blogging, law practice

    Some comfort for attorneys who might be worried that their blogs could be deemed to be advertising and therefore subject to bar association rules and the like, came from the New York Court of Appeals last month. In Stern v. Bluestone, New York's hig...

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eugenedlee

5 stars Eugene Lee

Great blog, keep the excellent posts and analyses coming.

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rgoolsby

5 stars Richard

As a fellow lawyer and new blogger, please know that I appreciate the hard work you have put into producing a fine site!

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