Calendaring in State Court -- Steps and Traps for the Unwary

No-cost, free MCLE event

1 hour participatory California MCLE credit

Program Description

We will be streaming via Zoom the videorecording Calendaring in State Court Steps and Traps for the Unwary by Julie Goren, the author of Litigation By the Numbers. (Julie will not be on the Zoom call).

Calculating deadlines in California State Court? Learn from other people’s mistakes, not your own, with this step by step video with practice exercises.

This video is for new and experienced practitioners, staff, students … anyone who has to calendar even a single CA state court deadline! Learn the complexities of calendaring in California state court, including the steps that must be taken to calendar deadlines correctly. Find out about the types of changes that are made to codes, rules, etc., that affect calendaring. Learn about common mistakes and traps and ways to avoid them.

Several included calendaring exercises allow you to immediately practice the steps and see how easily you can fall into a trap or misapply a rule. Focus is on calendaring deadlines for pleadings, discovery, and motions. One hour in length not including pausing to do the exercises.

About the presenter (on videorecording)

Julie A. Goren, Esq. has been involved in various aspects of California litigation for more than three decades. She wrote the first edition of Litigation By The Numbers® (“LBTN”) in 1982, as a self-taught legal secretary. Having previously searched in vain for a book which would show her, step by step, how to prepare, file, serve, and calendar documents in California state court lawsuits, she decided to fill that need herself.

After self-publishing the first edition, Julie entered Loyola Law School. Her many years of experience gave her a tremendous advantage — she graduated in the top 3% of the class of 1987.

Julie later held associate positions at the prestigious law firms of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger in Los Angeles.

Julie created and taught the California Procedures online course at UC Berkeley. She has presented on various topics, including: California State court calendaring; how to keep track of California’s rules, forms, and codes; the California Electronic Discovery Act; and annual summaries of rule, form, and code changes. She has presented to bar associations, paralegal associations, legal secretary associations, law school and paralegal classes.

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