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Appreciating 2015 and Anticipating Progress in 2016
HLG started one year ago, and with a bang.  Our first new case involved hot litigation in Los Angeles against Beverly Hills/national powerhouse, Kolodny Law Group.  We eventually achieved great results for our client and thus passed our first big litigation test. In the meantime, we were literally building and painting walls, installing computers, replacing […]

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Returning “the Law” to Family Law
Litigants reasonably wonder why parties, witnesses and even attorneys can sometimes seem to “get away” with shading the truth, fudging the facts and outright “testilying.” I have previously caught opposing parties doctoring personal checking and business records. Recently, an opposing party in one of our cases submitted into evidence “cut and pasted” portions of text […]

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Domestic Violence Awareness Month
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. I have seen the worst examples of DV in my cases and HLG takes it seriously. We agree with National AAML President James McClaren that “we should all take the time to be even more mindful about the ways in which we can offer leadership within our communities toward […]

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Electronically Stored Information: e-discovery and HLG
Electronically stored information (“ESI”) is information that is stored in technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic or similar capabilities. Electronic Discovery, also known as e-discovery, is the use of legal means to obtain ESI in the course of litigation for evidentiary purposes. My relationships with California ESI/E-discovery gurus, Jim Hennenhoefer and Gordon Cruse, […]

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