Our AAML Southern California Chapter presented its third annual Trial Basics Seminar in Costa Mesa on Friday, April 7, 2017. As before, it was free to all 100 attendees. 2017 was better than ever. Jim Schaefer, CPA and Justice Sheila Sonenshine (Ret.) put on an updated presentation regarding “Expert Witnesses 101,” with all new slides. […]
Mediation Twenty Years Later: A Cautionary Story and Proposed Reforms By Gregory W. Herring, CFLS, AAML, IAFL With Cassandra T. Glanville, Esq. In 1996 the California Law Revision Commission (“LRC”) developed and proposed legislation that eventually became the current mediation confidentiality statute, Evidence Code section 1119.[1] As more and more litigation has […]
October 2016 found Herring Law Group in the midst of a rapidly accelerating Ventura County Superior Court child custody/parenting case. Notwithstanding our client’s efforts to settle it on eminently reasonable terms, the other side, represented by a notorious Westside Los Angeles firm, was determined to force a showcase trial. We had a celebrity client, and […]
Herring Law Group is now opening its Santa Barbara office at 559 San Ysidro Road, Suite G. We expect to be furnished and fully operational by October 1, 2016. Of course, we will remain committed to our Ventura County office, clients, and staff. Our formal Santa Barbara presence will help us better serve in Santa […]