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Cybersecurity and Ethics
Cybersecurity and Ethics
What are our professional responsibility obligations when it comes to cyber risk?
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In the Estate, or Fake? How Cryptocurrency Impacts Bankruptcy
In the Estate, or Fake? How Cryptocurrency Impacts Bankruptcy
Attorney at Law
Popularized by Bitcoin billionaires such as Elon Musk, cryptocurrency is well known but not well understood. Seeing a need for more information on the subject, the Bankruptcy Law Section presented a cryptocurrency seminar featuring bankruptcy attorney Christopher Hughes and high-tech investigator Steve Konecny.
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Clarity From Calamity: How I Discovered My True Calling as a Lawyer
Clarity From Calamity: How I Discovered My True Calling as a Lawyer
Rejali Law Firm
My name is Omid Rejali. I am the founder of Rejali Law Firm as well as the creator of the Rejali Foundation, a nonprofit for mental illness awareness, and LawPer, a lawyer-client matching service designed to make legal services more affordable.
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NLD Event Recap: Court Practice Series on Civil Litigation
NLD Event Recap: Court Practice Series on Civil Litigation
Ford, Walker, Haggerty & Behar LLP
Last month, the Hon. Katherine A. Bacal and Stacy Fode, Esq., of Nukk-Freeman & Cerra, PC, offered civil practice tips and tricks as part of the NLD’s Court Practice Series.
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Tips from the Bar: Alex Calero
Tips from the Bar: Alex Calero
Schwartz Semerdjian Cauley & Evans LLP
Alex Calero is a litigator for the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, where he brings lawsuits on behalf of California citizens against individuals and companies who violate financial laws. Chair of the California Lawyers Association (CLA) Public Law Section, Calero won last year’s SDCBA Service by a Public Attorney Award for his excellence as a public sector attorney and his commitment to mentoring. Throughout his 16 years of practice, Calero has not only been a dedicated public servant, but he has also found time to mentor new lawyers and support civics education in San Diego.
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Senate Bill 467: Correcting Mistakes of the Past with the Science of the Present
Senate Bill 467: Correcting Mistakes of the Past with the Science of the Present
California Innocence Project Staff Attorney Fellow
On January 28, 2022, Senate Bill 467 passed the Senate with a 30-3 vote, sending it to the Assembly where it now needs to pass with a majority vote before being sent to the Governor for his signature. If enacted, Senate Bill 467 will strengthen the grounds on which individuals wrongfully convicted of a crime can seek post-conviction relief and ultimately help exonerate innocent people in prisons across California.
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NLD Member Spotlight: Deveney Wells-Gibson
NLD Member Spotlight: Deveney Wells-Gibson
California Western School of Law ’21
Deveney Wells-Gibson’s path to opening her own law firm shows how hard work and dedication can open opportunities for entrepreneurship and making dreams come true.
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A Lawyer’s Obligation of Candor
A Lawyer’s Obligation of Candor
Lawyers have always had a duty to be honest and truthful pursuant to general ethical principles, as well as the State Bar Act. The newest version of the Rules of Professional Conduct, effective Nov. 1, 2018, provides more specific guidance to lawyers relative to this duty.
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Message from the Chair of the New Lawyer Division
Message from the Chair of the New Lawyer Division
Hi Everyone,
I hope to see you this Saturday at NLD’s morning hike meet-up at Torrey Pines. It’ll be a great opportunity to network while enjoying San Diego’s awesome weather and coastline. Please RSVP here.
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Ground Hog Day Review – New Environmental Laws in 2022
Ground Hog Day Review – New Environmental Laws in 2022
Brown & Winters
On February 10, the SDCBA Environmental Law/Land Use Section met by Zoom to discuss new environmental and land use laws for 2022 in its presentation “Ground Hog Day Review – New Laws in 2022.” The reason for a Ground Hog Day review? Because it seems that every year, policymakers go around in the same circle and end up right back where they started: trying to get policy and law aligned with saving the planet.