From firefighter to attorney, Stygar feels honored to be able to give back to his community. “As an attorney I have this privilege to stand up for the people,” he says.
It is my honor and privilege to serve as Chair for the New Lawyer Division in 2021.
I feel like we are all waiting with bated breath for this year to finally end. Until then, there are still plenty of things to look forward to, even if they look a bit different this year.
If you keep trying hard and putting your best foot forward every day, good things will eventually happen. A good place to start is to keep your involvement with SDCBA and the New Lawyer Division.
Whether a newer or experienced lawyer, it may appropriate to seek guidance concerning one’s ethical and other obligations to clients.
Justice Ginsburg loved the law. She was a great force on the Court. She will continue to live through the meaningful work she left behind, particularly her dissents, that will continue to pave the way for many and become the law of tomorrow for many decades to come.
As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doings things, and we’ll all be better off for it. -Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
After putting in all of the time, effort, and expense involved in bringing a matter to a conclusion, little can dampen the sense of accomplishment more than a client's inability – or unwillingness – to pay the agreed-upon fees.
With statewide court closures and an economic recession to boot, the rugs underneath case theories and defenses were ripped out from under them without warning.
You just delivered a phenomenal closing speech and are convinced there is no way the jurors will find in favor of opposing counsel. What’s next? Jury deliberations of course, however, not the jury deliberations that the legal profession is accustomed to.
