Gaia T. Linehan, Esq., is a civil litigation attorney at the San Diego office of Freeman Mathis & Gary. LLP. Her practice focuses on commercial litigation, employment law, and tort matters. She has handled many aspects of civil litigation from pre-litigation alternative dispute resolution through trial.
“There’s no right way to do the wrong thing.” Cynthia L. Stratton, managing partner of civil litigation and employment law firm Stratton & Green, ALC and SDCBA board member, was raised with this adage. But there are myriad ways to do the right thing. Stratton does the right thing by focusing on relationships and community.
Happy National Women’s Month!
My name is Catharine “Kate” McGlynn, and I am in my third year of practice. I have been involved with the New Lawyer Division since 2021 and this is my first year serving on the NLD Executive Committee. I am the 2024 Legal Education Co-Chair, so I am tasked with bringing you all some top-notch CLE events.
Ethics for New Lawyers
Inadequate client communication is typically one of the top complaints to the State Bar every year. This is unfortunate because keeping clients informed of developments in the representation is one aspect of the practice of law we can actually control.
A copyright is a form of intellectual property that protects an original work of authorship fixed in a tangible medium.1 Musical compositions and sound recordings are examples of the works protected under this area of law. An owner of a copyright has exclusive rights including,(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work; (2) to prepare derivative works; (3) to distribute copies or phonorecords to the public; (4) to perform the copyrighted work publicly; (5) to display works publicly, and (6) in cases of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.2 Music artists striving for fame can go independent, while some opt to contract with record labels to target a vaster audience. While there is much more control an artist may possess with their creativity and exploitation of their music going independent, the ample resources and deeper financial pockets of record labels are very alluring. But deeper financial pockets of record labels mean record labels having stronger bargaining power than the music artist, and unconscionability within the contract may occur, leaving the artist disadvantaged.
By Khodadad “Ko” Sharif
Incivility may hit a litigant’s pocketbook.
In this series of tips, we will explore how Microsoft 365 can help law firms be more efficient, secure, and efficient. Your firm’s software and service subscriptions are a valuable business resource that you should understand, just like your firm’s operating and trust accounts. To start, you need to know what kind of account you and/or your firm have; we covered that topic in a previous post. In this post, we will discuss your options for subscription plans to Microsoft 365.
By Megan M. Moore, Leadership & Career Advancement Coach
By Khodadad “Ko” Sharif
Does California Rules of Professional Conduct, Rule 1.15, entitled “Safekeeping Funds and Property of Clients and Other Persons,” govern government agencies that are holding funds for third parties in a civil forfeiture proceeding? More specifically, should cash received or held in civil forfeiture proceedings by the Office of the District Attorney be deposited in one or more identifiable bank accounts labeled “Trust Account?”
In August 2018, I hopped on a plane from my hometown in Bangalore, India, and came to the United States to study law for a second time. I had just spent the last five years of my undergraduate life learning antiquated common law norms that govern the Indian legal system. I can’t for the life of me recall why I decided, “Oh yes—let’s go halfway across the world and jump into another cesspool of trauma”—but I did—and now my life is decidedly better because I took that plunge. I began my studies at California Western School of Law, not knowing a single person and having no family in the surrounding area to lean on.
