Ethical-Legal Challenges of Providing On-Site Healthcare to Protestors
By Sasha Jamshidi Farmer Case & Fedor
On September 29, the SDCBA Law and Medicine section collaborated with the San Diego Region Taskforce of the American Nurses Association (ANA) to host an invaluable discussion on the ethical-legal challenges that on-street nurses face in response to victims of police brutality. The ANA represents an essential group of workers who have provided medical aid to marginalized communities during the 2020-2021 racial equity demonstrations. Not only is the ANA considered an essential part of the healthcare sector, but it also has the mission of optimizing our nurses’ contribution to the health and wellbeing of individuals, families, and communities as a lobbying organization under 501(c)(6). In fact, the ANA is the largest national professional nursing organization in our country.Read More
Legal Ethics for New Attorneys: Recent State Bar Attorney Disciplinary Actions
Commonalities of Rules Violations
By Charles V. Berwanger 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.Read More
Navigating the Ethical Landmines of Handling Your Own Appeal
By Jeff Michalowski 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. Read More
No matter which side you practice, a career in criminal justice is a call to public service and an important function of our great democracy. Despite uncertainties you may have about your future, I advise you to fearlessly go forth and take that first step.
