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  Starting January 1, 2026, California will allow service of process by email — a long‑awaited modernization. Yet the statute’s language is so flawed that it is likely useless. SB 85, sponsored by Senator Tom Umberg's office, revised Code of Civil Procedure...

There's a rule for everything in California State Court civil litigation. A single procedure (e.g., filing a complaint, answering a complaint, filing a motion, opposing a motion, serving discovery, responding to discovery, etc.) may be governed by the Code of Civil...

  Columbus Day, the second Monday in October, is a state holiday as well as a court holiday in California state court. Native American Day, the fourth Friday in September, is only a state holiday. An assembly bill winding its way through the legislature would...

  Last year Assembly Bill 1973 amended Gov. Code § 6700 to create a new California holiday on the fourth Friday of September, to be known as Native American Day.  The intent was to raise the status of the holiday from a yearly proclamation to an official holiday;...

For more detail on calendaring, check out our video: "Calendaring in State Court:  Steps and Traps for the Unwary"   * * *   There's an accidental court holiday coming to California in 2015 © 2014 by Julie A. Goren It's Litigation By The Numbers® update...

According to the American Bar Association, calendar and deadline-related errors are the leading cause of malpractice actions against lawyers (Profile of Legal Malpractice Claims 2004-2007, ABA Standing Comm. on Prof'l Liab. (2008)). In California especially, there are...

For more detail on calendaring, check out our video: "Calendaring in State Court:  Steps and Traps for the Unwary" * * * STATEWIDE "COURT CLOSURES" ARE GONE.  "FURLOUGH DAYS" ARE BACK. On July 29, 2009, the Judicial Council voted to close all...

[Want to be notified when another article is added? Just click here and "like" our Facebook page. You'll see it in our News Feed and Updates.] California Expedited Jury Trial Act Opens New Avenues for California Mediators © 2011 by Julie A....

Electronic Filing in California State Court 1/ by Julie A. Goren, Esq. Author and Publisher of Litigation By The Numbers® ©  2011 by Julie A. Goren, Esq. [THIS ARTICLE IS NO LONGER CURRENT.] Electronic filing, or “eFiling,” is just another one of the many...

Judicial Council Forms Hold Clues To California Procedural Questions © 2011 by Julie A. Goren, Esq. When a California state court procedural question arises, the answer, or at a minimum, a direct path to the answer, may be found in the text of a Judicial Council form....

For more detail on calendaring, check out our video: “Calendaring in State Court:  Steps and Traps for the Unwary”   * * *   Calendaring Under the C.C.P. — Extending Time Based On Service Method . . . or Not © 2011 by Julie A. Goren, Esq. Deadlines must be...

For more detail on calendaring, check out our video: "Calendaring in State Court:  Steps and Traps for the Unwary"   Calendaring in California State Court © 2016 by Julie A. Goren, Esq. Calendaring-related errors are the leading cause of malpractice...

California Electronic Discovery 101 © 2011 by Julie A. Goren, Esq. [This article contains excerpts from "California Civil Litigation and Discovery," by Julie A. Goren, Esq. and Barb Pollinger, J.D.] Business and personal files of documents in paper form have been, and...

For more detail on calendaring, check out our video: "Calendaring in State Court:  Steps and Traps for the Unwary" * * * "Certainty" in Calculating Hearing-Related Deadlines in California State Court © 2011 by Julie A. Goren, Esq. On January 1, 2011, Section 12c was...