Year: 2024

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NLD Member Spotlight: Audrey Surridge

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NLD Member Spotlight: Audrey Surridge

By Lillian Glenister, Esq.
Judicial Law Clerk at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

The San Diego County Bar Association recently awarded Audrey Surridge with its Service by a New Lawyer Award at its Annual Awards Ceremony and Celebration of Community Service on May 14, 2024.  Sworn into the California Bar in 2017, Audrey is a graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law and is an attorney at Fisher Phillips LLP.  Audrey represents companies in a variety of employment disputes, conducts workplace investigations, and counsels her clients in developing effective policies and practices. Read More

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Tips from the Bar: Carree Nahama, Esq.

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Tips from the Bar: Carree Nahama, Esq.

By Sasha Jamshidi
Bremer Whyte Brown &
O’Meara, LLP

Meet Carree Nahama, Esq.

Ever since the 6th grade, Carree Nahama always wanted to be a lawyer. Ms. Nahama became the first in her family to attend and graduate from law school. While she had an initial interest in corporate law, she ultimately was drawn to civil litigation, specifically personal injury work. After interning at the Consumer and Environmental Protection Unit (CEPU) at the San Diego City Attorney’s office during law school, Ms. Nahama realized that “Torts had become [her] world.” Her experience at CEPU reinforced her interest in consumer rights litigation and eventually led her to start her own personal injury firm, Nahama Law. She has enjoyed a successful nine-year practice at Nahama Law, where she focuses one hundred percent (100%) on personal injury work involving car accidents, dog bites, civil rights, premise liability, brain injuries, injuries to children, and trucking accidents. Read More

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Community Service Reflection: Annual Free Books for Children Event

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Community Service Reflection: Annual Free Books for Children Event

By Shubhra Sharma
Global Legal Law Firm

As the Community Outreach Co-Chair for the San Diego County Bar Association’s New Lawyer Division (NLD), I am thrilled to share with you the heartwarming success of the recent annual Free Books for Children event held at Balboa Park’s Spreckels Organ Pavilion on April 27, 2024.  This event, organized in collaboration with Roosevelt Brown — a dedicated advocate for literacy — has been instrumental in our community for the past 40 years. Read More

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Tech Talk: Microsoft Word – Advanced Editing Tips for Pasting Text

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Cutting and pasting is a simple task. Perhaps so simple and effective that most users never ask, “Could there be more?” With a few keystrokes, you can easily repurpose text from one place to another. It’s such a common and old function that it’s probably one of the few keyboard shortcuts known by the least proficient Word-users: CTRL + X cuts, CTRL + C copies, and CTRL + V pastes. But could there be more? I’m so glad you asked because, yes yes, there is so much more. You have OPTIONS, and they can work wonders in helping you insert text more efficiently and prevent you from getting into a formatting fight with Word. Read More

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DEI Drop: An Immigrant Story

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By Bhashini Weerasinghe

As we rapidly approach the upcoming election and brace for the inevitable and continued onslaught of campaign attacks on some of the most vulnerable populations, I cannot help but think about my own immigrant story. I was seven years old when my dad told us that he was going to go to the United States to get things situated before we would all join him in about a year. I remember the party we had on his last day in Sri Lanka and the ride to the airport to drop him off. I also remember waking up the next day and wanting to see my dad and having my mom tell me that dad is on a flight. She pulled out a globe to show me that dad is flying across the world. I remember asking if we could take the train to meet him. My seven-year-old brain was struggling to understand what an ocean was and why we could not see dad. I remember that year, I had many phone chats with my dad — but that meant, we get word that dad is trying to call, and we all would head to the town where there was a clothing store that had a phone and wait for him to call back. In Sri Lanka, we didn’t have our own phone — no one did. This was before cell phones were a thing, and before you could Facetime with your loved ones.   Read More

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Ethics in Brief: Ethical Pitfalls Arise When Pursuing a Client Agreement that Impedes a State Bar Investigation

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By Alara Chilton

When a client files or threatens to file a State Bar complaint alleging a lawyer’s ethical misconduct, a lawyer may be tempted to impede a State Bar investigation by seeking to negotiate an agreement that shields the lawyer from the State Bar’s ability to investigate and prosecute a lawyer’s ethical misconduct.  Such agreements are intended to ensure a client’s or former client’s silence regarding the alleged misconduct. However, a lawyer’s efforts to enter into such an agreement may run afoul of Business and Professions Code section 6090.5.  Read More

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Ethics in Brief: Caputo – A Cautionary Tale with Costly Consequences

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By Valerie Silverman Massey 

Scenario: As a senior or supervising attorney, you are preparing to file a document with a court. A more junior attorney prepares the document using prior office writings/research or conducting new research and preparing the document from scratch. Your name is on the caption and the signature line.  Read More

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Upping Your Security Game with MFA

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In today’s security landscape, there’s no such thing as “too careful.” With so many of us still working from home, devices scattered around cities and states, and malicious actors on the rise seeking to take advantage of the situation, it’s more important than ever for lawyers and law firms to be on top of their security game. One simple and effective step to take? Implement multifactor authentication (MFA). Read More