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Article is Entitled, "When the American Rule Doesn't Apply:  Attorney's Fees as Damages in California Litigation"      The co-contributors to this blawg, William M. ("Mike") Hensley and Marc Alexander, have published an article about attorney's fees as damages in California Litigation, the Journal of the Litigation Section, State Bar of California, Volume 21, Number 3, 2008,

Part 2 Follow-up From Our October 30, 2008 Post.      In our October 30, 2008 post, we provided highlights from a civil justice survey of state courts in 2005, which primarily focused on the nation’s 75 most populous counties. (The California counties surveyed were Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, San Francisco,

Bureau of Justice Statistics Study Offers Some Interesting (and Possibly Unexpected) Findings.      Although our concentration is on attorney’s fees award, we sometimes digress to report on studies relating to the general civil litigation sector. Now is the time to discuss a recent study that has some results that may be surprising in many respects.