Year: 2022

Categories : Law Practice

Creating a Complete Picture as a Public Defender

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Creating a Complete Picture as a Public Defender

By Yahairah Aristy
San Diego Public Defender’s Office

How I got to where I am today is the product of many lived experiences that began in my childhood. My childhood was filled with experiences that I believe it is best children do not experience — parents with substance abuse disorders, neglect, and physical abuse. These experiences served as a catalyst for me to depend on my maternal grandmother for the provision of my daily needs as a child, and because of her I did not grow up in the foster care system. Still, despite everything, my mother was instrumental in instilling in me the value of education and community service. Read More

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Tips from the Bar: Heather Rosing

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Tips from the Bar: Heather Rosing

By Daniela Lagunas
Schwartz, Semerdjian, Cauley & Evans LLP

Klinedinst CEO and former SDCBA president Heather L. Rosing recently received the National Conference of Bar Presidents (NCBP) Fellows Award for her exceptional work within the legal community. During her 26 years of practice, Rosing has not only paved the way for female attorneys in private practice but has also developed a nationwide reputation for her skills and legal experience. Read More

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“But It’s a Public Record!”

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By Timothy Casey

This issue of Ethics in Brief covers an attorney’s duty of confidentiality and a commonly held misconception regarding a “public records” exception to the duty of confidentiality. The misconception may stem from a conflation of the ethical duty of confidentiality with the evidentiary rule about the attorney-client privilege. In sum, there is no public records exception to the duty of confidentiality, although information revealed in a public record may not be privileged. Read More

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President’s Message: February 7, 2022

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As we approach Super Bowl weekend, I am slowly coming to grips with the fact that this is another year when the Bills will not be the league champs. Growing up in Buffalo, I was around a lot of sports fans who had something akin to Charlie Brown’s “I got a rock” approach to their teams. Like San Diego, Buffalo has never won a championship in Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Hockey League, or the National Basketball Association. Perhaps fittingly, Buffalo’s NBA team left the city in 1978 to come to San Diego, before ultimately departing for Los Angeles. In fact, no city has gone more seasons without a championship than Buffalo. But that made me admire all the more the athletes that competed in my city. They had resilience. Read More

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Your Brother and Sister’s Keeper? Ethical Duties of Managers and Supervisors

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By Edward J. McIntyre

We tend to think of our obligations under the Rules of Professional Conduct as personal duties specific to our own conduct. And, indeed, the rules prescribe permissible conduct for California lawyers. Those obligations, however, stretch beyond what each of us may or must do and say. Read More

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President’s Message: January 31, 2022

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I have been around a lot of discussions about leadership lately. In consecutive weekends, our board had its annual retreat and then I attended the California Lawyers Association leadership conference. And, as referenced below, the San Diego County Bar Association launched its leadership academy, a project that has been years in the making. During one of my many conversations, somebody solicited some leadership secrets, a phrase that triggered my memory of a fun read from many years ago. Read More