James Lambden spent 17 years on the 1st District Court of Appeal and seven years before that on the Alameda County Superior Court, including four years handling the law-and-motion calendar. That assignment "gave me probably two or three PhDs or LLMs in civil procedure," he said.
As a mediator, though, he sometimes begins by telling participants that he used to belong to the Teamsters. "That helps to convince the clients to trus... (continued)