By Nicole Tanaka 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.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
August Message From the Chair of the New Lawyer Division
Stephanie Atkinson 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.Read More