Litigation
Aug. 7, 2013
Influential agency begins studying possible exceptions to mediation confidentiality laws
At the Legislature's directive, the California Law Revision Commission is set to begin studying the relationship between mediation confidentiality and attorney malpractice.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
In 2005, Michael Cassel sued his former attorneys, alleging they threatened to abandon him two weeks before trial in a trademark dispute that had gone to mediation unless he agreed to settle for $1.25 million.
The case spurred a major dispute in the legal community over whether communications in mediation - including those between a lawyer and his client - could serve as the basis of malpractice lawsu...
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