Civil litigation is the court process used by parties who want to resolve a dispute by seeking monetary damages or a court order rather than criminal sanctions. Civil litigation is used to resolve a wide variety of disputes concerning matters that may include employment & labor relations, contractual disputes, personal injury, and property rights.

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At Cota & Zeiler, every attorney assigned to civil litigation is a seasoned trial lawyer with experience handling a broad range of issues, from relatively simple contract disputes in the California state courts to complex federal cases involving multiple parties.
We are called upon to answer a question, universal to the legal profession, “Can they do that?” Here we offer our answer to this weighty inquiry—Sure... Giving due regard for the intellectual complexity of the task it imposes [filing a civil cover sheet], it should take no longer than a few minutes to complete.
Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co. v. Gonzalez (1994) 31 Cal.App.4th 51