State Bar & Bar Associations,
Law Practice,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Jul. 24, 2020
A puff of smoke at the settlement conference?
There’s a fine line separating legal “puffery” from outright lying.
Louie H. Castoria
Partner
Kaufman, Dolowich & Voluck LLP
425 California St 21st Fl
San Francisco , CA 94104
Phone: (415) 926-7601
Fax: (415) 926-7601
Email: lcastoria@kdvlaw.com
UC Berkeley Boalt Hall
Louie is a mediator with CourtCall Online Dispute Resolution, a member of the Mediation Society, a mandatory settlement officer with the San Francisco County Superior Court, and an adjunct professor of law at Golden Gate University. He won his first U.S. Supreme Court on July 1, 2021.
Some of the funniest jokes about our esteemed profession center on our supposed unfamiliarity with the truth. There's the old joke about how to tell when lawyers are lying (our lips are moving), and there's Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s comment, "Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke."
As a 40-year litigator, I've shoveled my share of smoke, and as a mandatory settlement conference, or MSC, officer for the S...
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