LOS ANGELES — If there’s a motion to compel looming, Judge Howard Lee Halm will try to deal with it proactively by resolving discovery disputes.
It’s has been his practice to hold informal discovery conferences whenever he can since he moved to an independent civil calendar at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse two years ago. Of the hundreds he’s held since then, he said he can confidently recall only three that ended with a mo... (continued)
