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Civil Litigation

Mar. 25, 2010

Opinion Poll Issues Flawed Results

Eric Kingsley and Elana Levine of Kingsley & Kingsley discuss the recent ranking of California as one of the worst states in terms of its litigation climate.

Eric B. Kingsley

Partner Kingsley & Kingsley APC

Labor & Employment

16133 Ventura Blvd #1200
Encino , CA 91436

Phone: (818) 990-8300

Fax: (818) 990-2903

Email: eric@kingsleylawyers.com

Loyola Law School; Los Angeles CA

Eric is the former board chair of the Anti-Defamation League's Los Angeles Region.

Elana R. Levine

Senior Counsel Jacobson, Russell, Saltz, Nassim & de la Torre LLP

Email: lani@llglaw.com

Elana's practice is devoted to litigating wage and hour representative and class actions in California. She is an active member of the California Employment Lawyers Association.

By Eric Kingsley and Elana Levine

We have seen this scenario time and again: a defendant, upon being served with a lawsuit issues a press release stating that he or she "intends to vigorously defend this frivolous lawsuit." The phrase has become so overused it has lost any meaning.

This phrase is echoed in a recent nation-wide study conducted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) entitled "Lawsuit Climate 2010: Ranking the States." In the poll...

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