You’ve undoubtedly been in a mediation where the lawyer on the other side has asked for a break so she can call her client’s insurance carrier in order to get a response to your latest settlement offer. You wait — reliant on her summary of your devastating statement in the mediation about how the carrier
October 2016
Does A Petition For Discretionary Review Divest A Trial Court Of Jurisdiction?
By Mack Sperling on
Posted in Watching The Court
The place where a a trial court’s jurisdiction over a case on appeal meets the competing jurisdiction of the appellate court over that same case is is a busy intersection. It is often hard to tell when the trial court no longer has the jurisdiction to make rulings in a case that has been appealed.