January 2024
Leadership Development
2024 SDCBA Section, Committee, and Division Orientation
Jan 25, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
For Section, Committee, and Division leaders: The annual Section, Committee, and Division Orientation provides important information to our leadership about how the SDCBA supports volunteer leaders and how leaders plan meetings and events.
This meeting will be held virtually via Zoom.
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CLE Program
33rd Annual Bankruptcy Law Year in Review 
Feb 21, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Join this program to review some of the most important cases decided in 2023 affecting bankruptcy practice here in San Diego. From Bankruptcy Court level to the Supreme Court, presenter Dennis Wickham gets to the heart of issues that matter.

This program is worth 1.0 General Participatory credit.
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Highlighted Event
 
Wed, Jan
31
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Virtual Event

San Diego County Bench/Bar Lunch & Learn

Get the Inside Scoop! Your Look Behind the Scenes of Local News 

Please join the San Diego Superior Court Bench/Bar Committee for an informative Lunch & Learn with Voice of San Diego. Launched in 2005, Voice of San Diego was the first digital, nonprofit news organization in the country to serve a local community. Their mission: investigative journalism for a better San Diego. VOSD made a name for itself by producing hard-hitting investigative reports along with civic engagement opportunities that gave San Diego residents a new platform to discuss and debate the issues that impact their quality of life.
 

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Do you ever have a general law or career-related question, but aren't sure where or how to ask it? Go ahead and submit your law- or career-related question to Asked & Answered, the new QA column in San Diego Lawyer Magazine, and get an answer from one of our veteran attorneys.

Your question can be completely anonymous, so feel free to ask anything! E.g., “What are some tips for gaining the cooperation of a non-party in answering a subpoena?” or “When is the best time to make a lateral career move?”

Answers will be published in San Diego Lawyer and linked here. 
 
 

Featured

Message from the NLD Chair

By Elijah Gaglio
Happy New Year, NLD Members! My goal for this year is to continue to grow NLD and make it a resource for law students and new lawyers alike. MORE »
 

Tips from the Bar: Katharine Tremblay

By Lillian Glenister, Esq.
Judicial Law Clerk at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
A firm believer in the saying “everything happens for a reason,” Katharine Tremblay recently joined the California Department of Justice as a Deputy Attorney General in the Employment and Administrative Mandate section of the Attorney General’s Office. MORE »

(Top photo Lillian Glenister, bottom photo Katharine Tremblay)
 

Memo to a New Litigator

By Mitchell L. Lathrop
Abusive litigation tactics do little for the client or the lawyer. Rather, such behavior is the hallmark of a second-rate attorney. MORE »
 
Editor-in-Chief: 
Lillian Glenister and Linda Nelte
Contributing Writers: 
Elijah Gaglio, Lillian Glenister, Mitchell L. Lathrop
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