2012 LEGISLATIVE WORK
AB 2025 (Gorell) Mediation Confidentiality. Support as amended. Chaptered.
AB 1631 (Monning) Arbitration: legal representation. Co-sponsored. Chaptered.
AB 506 (Wieckowski) Local government: bankruptcy: neutral evaluation. Support. Chaptered.
SB 491 (Evans) Contracts: claims. Support. Died.
AB 2025 (Gorell) Mediation Confidentiality. Support as amended. Chaptered.
In response to Cassel v. Superior Court (2011) 51 Cal.4th 113, required the California Law Revision Commission to study and report to the Legislature concerning the relationship under current law between mediation confidentiality and attorney malpractice and misconduct, as well as the availability and propriety of contractual waivers.
AB 1631 (Monning) Arbitration: legal representation. Co-sponsored. Chaptered.
Deleted sunset date on Code of Civil Procedure section 1282.4, which permits out of state attorneys to appear in domestic arbitrations in California under certain conditions.
AB 506 (Wieckowski) Local government: bankruptcy: neutral evaluation. Support. Chaptered.
330Prohibited a local public entity from filing under federal bankruptcy law unless the local public entity has participated in a specified neutral evaluation process with interested parties.
SB 491 (Evans) Contracts: claims. Support. Died.
Would have provided that any term in a contract of adhesion purporting to waive the right to join or consolidate claims, or to bring a claim as a representative member of a class or in a private attorney general capacity shall be deemed to lack the necessary consent to waive that right, and would have been void.