Originally founded as the Association for California Tort Reform,
the association later merged with the California Legal Reform
Institute, a group of high-tech and venture capital leaders in
the Silicon Valley, to form a broader, more powerful coalition
dedicated to improving California’s civil justice system. The
association was renamed the Civil Justice Association of
California in 1999.
Counted among its many successes is Proposition 64, which stopped
“shakedown” lawsuits from being filed against businesses by
private lawyers. California voters overwhelmingly approved the
initiative on Nov. 2, 2004.