Law Practice,
Judges and Judiciary,
Government
Sep. 18, 2018
If court bills don’t have teeth, then you won’t feel the bite
Legislation intended to relieve pressures on the court system could use a little more bite in order to get the job done.
Jamie Alexis Newbold
Commissioner (temp.)
Email: jnewboldlaw@yahoo.com
Jamie is a Bay Area attorney who has worked for the trial courts throughout California and is a judicial research attorney for Marin County Superior Court.
With the increasing hardship on the trial courts from lack of funding and resources, the legal community continues to work together to relieve the pressures on the system. A recent example is Gov. Jerry Brown's approval of Assembly Bill 2230 last week that includes streamlining the labor intensive separate statement requirement for motions to compel further responses to discovery requests, inter alia.
Operative on Jan. 1, 2020, inst...
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