Earlier this month, Governor Brown signed new legislation (SB 954), which requires lawyers to provide their clients with a printed disclosure describing the confidentiality restrictions applicable to mediation.  This disclosure must be provided to a client as soon as reasonably possible before the client agrees to participate in a mediation.  Lawyers also will be required to obtain a printed acknowledgement, signed by their

Kullar v. Foot Locker Retail, Inc., 168 Cal. App. 4th 116 (2008)

Crystal Echeverria and two other objectors challenged the fairness and adequacy of a settlement of a class action lawsuit involving approximately 18,000 Foot Locker employees who were required to “purchase and wear shoes of a distinctive design or color as a term and condition of their employment” (the “uniform class”) as well