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Bar Soap – June 2013
Bar Soap – a column by Matt Guichard Still plenty of lawyers moving around, forming new law firms, leaving partnerships, finding new office space—but few actually retiring. I am often asked: “When are...
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Civil Jury Verdicts
We finally have some cases to report in our Civil Jury Verdicts column. I certainly remember when I first started writing our column—it was a regular monthly event. Several things have contributed to...
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Bar Soap – March 2014
Bar Soap – a column by Matt Guichard Always lots to talk about, so where to start? We continue to be disappointed with the meager reporting of civil jury verdicts. I often receive news of an...
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Bar Soap: October 2014
Bar Soap – a column by Matt Guichard My, my, had I known I could get responses by giving a grammar lesson, I would have done it years ago. Thanks to all for your input. I received comments on Super...
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Civil Jury Verdicts: February 2015
Yes, I am back with another Civil Jury Verdicts column. No, I did not move out of town. There just have not been sufficient reports for me to prepare a Civil Jury Verdicts column. I now have some...
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Bar Soap: February 2015
Bar Soap – a column by Matt Guichard It does seem quite a while since I penned a Bar Soap column for the Contra Costa Lawyer. Perhaps so, but here goes the latest … and actually, I did not “pen” this...
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Bar Soap/Civil Jury Verdicts, August 2015
Okay, you noticed this column is both a Bar Soap and a Civil Jury Verdicts column. I have been sitting on a couple of trial reports while waiting for more, but I just couldn’t wait any longer. So, this...
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Civil Jury Verdicts: December 2015
The number of jury trials going out in our state trial courts continues to drop each year, and the trials-to-actual-verdict ratio seems to experience an even greater percentage drop. The experience in...
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Bar Soap: April 2016
Bar Soap – a column by Matt Guichard As I recall, I have regularly mentioned the Contra Costa County Bar Association’s MCLE Spectacular as the social and legally substantive event of the year. It is a...
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Here we are starting another new year. Seems as though we just started 2016 and here we are in 2017. I know, I know, many of you just want to put 2016 behind you. But many good things happened in our...
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