Categories : For New Attorneys For the Record Law Practice Legal Ethics
Cybersecurity and Ethics
Cybersecurity and Ethics
What are our professional responsibility obligations when it comes to cyber risk?
Categories : For New Attorneys For the Record Law Practice
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.
Categories : For New Attorneys For the Record Law Practice Legal Ethics
Legal Ethics for New Attorneys: Recent State Bar Attorney Disciplinary Actions, Commonalities of Rules Violations
Legal Ethics for New Attorneys: Recent State Bar Attorney Disciplinary Actions
Commonalities of Rules Violations
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP
In the past several months, the State Bar of California has disbarred or suspended the license to practice law of at least 10 California attorneys. There are common themes threading their way through the disciplinary findings in each of these cases that are important for practitioners to consider. The purpose of this article is to identify some of those themes.
Categories : August-2021 For New Attorneys For the Record Legal Ethics
Navigating the Ethical Landmines of Handling Your Own Appeal
Navigating the Ethical Landmines of Handling Your Own Appeal
Paul, Plevin, Sullivan &
Connaughton LLP
No trial attorney is perfect. Even the most prepared and experienced trial attorneys should expect their adversaries to attack not just their clients’ actions and inactions, but also claimed missteps by the trial attorneys themselves. This is especially evident in appeals, where parties regularly argue that issues have been waived or forfeited; that deadlines have bene missed; or decry alleged attorney misconduct in the trial court below.
Categories : August-2021 For New Attorneys For the Record
August Message From the Chair of the New Lawyer Division
August Message From the Chair of the New Lawyer Division
NLD President
Greetings NLD!
I cannot wait to see you all tonight at the SDCBA/NLD Summer Social: Here Comes the Sun at Waterfront Park! This will be our first in-person event in 17 months, with heavy hors d’oeuvres, desserts, a live DJ, a photo booth, a glitter glam face & hair artist, step and repeat, cash bar, and more! We really hope to see you there! You can still register here.