Los Angeles County Bar Association Releases Results in the Vote for President-Elect |
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Ann I. Park will become President-Elect for the 2021-22 bar year. As President-Elect, Ms. Park will automatically ascend to the position of LACBA President.
The Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) announced that 9.98 percent, or 1,580 of 15,828 eligible members, voted in the 2021 contested election for President-Elect.
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2021 LACBA Installation and Awards Celebration |
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LACBA will celebrate the installation of 2021-22 President, Brad Pauley; President-Elect, Ann I. Park; Senior Vice President, Kristin Adrian; Vice President, Sarvenaz Bahar; Vice President of Diversity, Inclusion & Outreach, Christine C. Goodman; and incoming Trustees on Thursday, June 24, 2021.
The special keynote speaker during the program will be Senator Alex Padilla. LACBA will also present the Shattuck-Price Outstanding Lawyer Award to Hon. Lee Smalley Edmon, the Outstanding Jurist Award to Hon. Virginia A. Phillips, the Diversity Impact Award to Munger, Tolles & Olson Fellows Program, and its Pro Bono Service Award to Frankfurt Kurnit Klein + Selz.
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LACBA and WLALA Call on Law Firms to
Commit to Gender Equity
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The Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Bar Association are calling on the legal industry to redouble its commitment to programs and policies that aim to retain and advance women lawyers.
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Congratulations to the Daily Journal's 2021 List of Top Women Lawyers
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LACBA Welcomes Diane Trunk and Catherine Jackson |
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Diane Trunk, Director of the Domestic Violence Project
Diane joins us from Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice (LACLJ) where she was the Director of Program Development and Evaluation. At LACLJ, she led various agency-wide initiatives including implementation of a new case management system and trauma-informed service model. She also led LACLJ's participation in the California Shriver Civil-Gideon research project.
Prior to LACLJ, Diane was an attorney at Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County where she managed the Domestic Abuse Self Help (DASH) project and served as a subject matter expert for the Judicial Council of California in the development of web-based document assembly program for domestic violence restraining orders.
In 2017, she received the Betty Fisher Award from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors for her service to domestic violence survivors. She received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her J.D. from University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
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Catherine Jackson, Marketing Manager
With more than 25 years of marketing and communications experience, Cathy comes to LACBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a UW Director of Strategic Communications, she developed and implemented a range of marketing communications plans for campus departments and projects, including the Center for Design and Material and the Prenatal to Five child development research initiative.
Her career encompasses a range of communications roles with various organizations, from nonprofit museum environments promoting events and membership to creating seasonal marketing campaigns for a Fortune 500 toy company. Cathy also worked for advertising agencies in the greater Chicago area, supervising print, web, interactive, and video projects for various outside clients. Her strengths are in project management, creative concepting, design supervision, and copywriting.
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Orange County Referrals
LACBA's Lawyer Referral Service, SmartLaw, referred thousands of viable cases in 2020. Presently, SmartLaw needs family law, criminal law, and landlord/tenant attorneys in Orange County to refer cases to. If you practice or have a satellite office in Orange County and are interested in getting referrals from LACBA, learn more here.
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Featured LACBA Events
When: Tuesday, June 15, 2021 5:30PM - 6:30PM
When: Thursday, June 17, 2021 5:30PM - 7:00PM
When: Wednesday, June 23, 2021 5:00PM - 7:00PM
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LACBA's Position on Non-Attorney Paraprofessional Specialists
Licensing non-attorney paraprofessional “specialists” to provide in-court representation up to (and for everything short of) a jury trial is not the answer.
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Los Angeles Lawyer -- June 2021
Featured Articles
Into the Sunset, Bidding Fond Farewell to a Challenging but Rewarding Year.
By Roxanne M. Wilson and Jeffrey B. Weston
Despite many attempts in recent years to clarify classifying independent contractors from employees, this area of labor law remains a potential minefield for employers.
By Judge Ronald F. Frank
Federal, state, and local government responses to the pandemic have created an everchanging checkerboard landscape for courts' processing of unlawful detainers.
PLUS: Earn MCLE credit. MCLE Test No. 301 appears on page 23.
By Toni Jaramilla
Policing reforms have been initiated at state and local levels in California in response to the Black Lives Matter movement's escalating campaign after the murder of George Floyd, but more is needed.
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'Who Are You Remembering...?' Campaign Raises over $19,000 |
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In May 2021, the LACBA Counsel for Justice Veterans Legal Services Project ran its Who Are You Remembering Campaign, honoring our nation’s fallen heroes in conjunction with Military Appreciation Month and Memorial Day. Through this campaign, over $19,000 was raised to support VLSP’s delivery of free legal services to veterans, active duty, and reserve members of the armed forces.
If you have not already had the opportunity to see each memorial, please take the time out now to pay homage to those who served in support of our country. Each tribute can be viewed on the VLSP Facebook and Twitter pages (@LACBAVeterans).
LACBA VLSP thanks Campaign Gold Sponsors Clyde & Co and Proskauer; Campaign Silver Sponsors: Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholler LLP, Foley & Mansfield PLLP, Matthew J. Norris – Norris Law Group, P.C., John A. Clark, William L. Winslow, and Pamela Perry-Hunter, M.D.; and the individuals and families who either donated during this campaign or allowed VLSP, LACBA, and CFJ to honor their loved ones.
Together, we can make a difference in clearing the legal access barriers to veterans’ employment, housing, healthcare, education, and overall wellness!
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Relaxed Requirements in Amended Code of Civil Procedure Section 664.6 Carry Risk of Professional Discipline |
If you are a litigator, odds are you have either brought a motion to enforce a settlement agreement in a pending action, or asked a court to retain jurisdiction over the parties to a litigation to enforce the terms of a settlement agreement pursuant to California Code of Civil Procedure § 664.6 (“Section 664.6”). Section 664.6 helps to streamline the settlement process and provides an expedited procedure to enforce settlement agreements. Important new changes to Section 664.6 took effect January 1, 2021, which, if not followed, may subject a lawyer to “professional discipline.”
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Identify the Scope of Your Engagement in Writing |
Legal malpractice claims sometimes arise out of a client’s claim that the lawyer agreed to provide certain legal services, when the lawyer did not provide them because the lawyer did not believe that it was part of the engagement. Read the latest Tip of the Month from AHERN and AXA XL. LACBA Members can access an exclusive Lawyers Professional Liability program with AXA XL available only through AHERN Insurance Brokerage. Apply today.
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For more than a decade, LawPay has made it as easy as possible for attorneys to receive payment for their services. As a proud member benefit of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, LawPay offers you competitive pricing, plus zero setup, application, annual, or cancellation fees.
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Whether you want the ease of single sign-on program registrations or the power to access our job board in the palm of your hand, the My LACBA App is a great tool for you. |
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