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Wimsatt v. Superior Court

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Resources > Wimsatt v. Superior Court

Duration: 2:00 minutes

NextGen: No 

Teaching Notes: No

Skills: ADR | Mediation 

Skill Levels: Basic 

Type of Resources: Video 

Subjects: ADR | Mediation 

Modality: Both Online and In-Person

Participants: unlimited

Wimsatt v. Superior Court 

Jim Coben 

 

Reluctantly reversing a judicially-created perjury exception to confidentiality, and precluding the client in this legal malpractice action from discovering mediation briefs and emails that would support the allegation that his lawyer lowered his settlement demand without authority; but refusing to issue a protective order for the contents of the conversation in which the lawyer purportedly lowered the demand, reasoning that plaintiff failed to meet his burden to establish that the conversations actually occurred in mediation.

Video and additional information available on Mitchell Hamline Open Access.

 

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