Santa Clara County Bar Association 

 

The SCCBA Family Law Section presents an MCLE Seminar:

 

This highly interactive "nuts and bolts" of practical solutions to complex challenges will give lawyers (across the "experience spectrum") an opportunity to learn cutting edge strategies regarding discovery, privilege and expert witnesses. Each topic will be covered, structured loosely with the panel spending an hour of presentation and discussion per topic. These are rapidly changing and evolving topics, with CA Rules of Court, case law and "growing trends." Bring your questions about Facebook, Snapchat and Periscope!

 

SPEAKERS:

Hon. Phillip Pennypacker,
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara 

 

Hon. Edward Mills, Retired, 
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara 

Valerie Houghton, R.N., MFT, JD 
Counselors & Consultants, Inc.

 

Stefan Kennedy,
Kennedy Myers Law Offices 

 

Richard Roggia, 
Law Offices of Richard P. Roggia

 

 

 

Details:
When:	August 25, 2017 1:00PM-4:00PM
Where:	SCCBA Seminar & Conference Center 31 North Second Street, 4th Floor San Jose, California  95113 United States
Presenter:	Family Law Section
Contact:	SCCBA info@sccba.com 408-287-2557

 

 

Pricing:

In-Person
SCCBA Member:	$69
SCCBA New Admittee: (Under 5 years in practice)	$59
Non-Member Event Attendee:	$119
Honorary:	FREE

Attend Online
	SCCBA Member:	$95
	Non-Member Event Attendee:	$135

 

Registration: 12:30pm
Program: 1:00pm - 4:00pm

MCLE CREDIT:
3.0 General Substantive Law

 

 

Santa Clara County Bar Association

 

The SCCBA Diversity Committee presents an MCLE Lunch Seminar:

 

This one and a half hour elimination of bias course will focus on raising awareness of implicit bias.  It will begin with the facts underpinning its existence, how to identify implicit bias, and the effect of implicit bias on institutions.  The framework for the discussion about systemic institutional bias is the criminal system.  We will encourage open and honest discussion about the topic to promote greater understanding and help effect positive change.  We will be joined by prominent community leaders, Andre Chapman, Executive Director of Unity Care Group, Inc. and Chief of Police Edgardo Garcia (City of San Jose), along with our esteemed attorney colleagues in the criminal justice system, Amir Alem, Esq., Deputy District Attorney (Santa Clara County) and Kipp Davis, Esq, Deputy Public Defender (Santa Clara County).  

Do you carry unconscious biases? Enhance your experience and spur lively discussion at this important seminar by gaining some personal insight through short online quizzes. Project Implicit by Harvard University is designed to test bias in various topics including race, gender, sexual orientation, and more.  

This panel discussion is being organized by S. Michael Lee, Deputy District Attorney, Santa Clara County.

Access Project Implicit Social Attitudes quizzes here: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/.  

 

 

 

SPEAKERS:

Amir Alem, Esq.,
Deputy District Attorney, Santa Clara County

Andre Chapman,
Executive Director of Unity Care Group, Inc. 

Hon. Jose S. Franco,
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara

Edgardo Garcia,
Chief of Police, City of San Jose 

Miguel Rodriguez,
Supervision Deputy Public Defender, Santa Clara

 

moderator:

Kipp Davis,
Deputy Public Defender, Santa Clara County

 

 

Details:
When:	August 24, 2017 12:00PM-1:30PM
Where:	SCCBA Seminar & Conference Center 31 North Second Street, 4th Floor San Jose, California  95113 United States
Presenter:	Diversity Committee
Contact:	SCCBA info@sccba.com 408-287-2557

 

 

Pricing: [includes lunch]

In-Person
SCCBA Member:	$85
SCCBA New Admittee: (Under 5 years in practice)	$75
Non-Member Event Attendee:	$110
Honorary:	$29

Attend Online
	SCCBA Member:	$95
	Non-Member Event Attendee:	$135

 

Registration: 11:30am
Program: 12:00pm - 1:30pm

MCLE CREDIT:
1.5 Elimination & Recognition of Bias 

 

 

Sonoma County Bar Association

The Bar Journal

Summer 2017

 

Celebrating Service Issue

 

 http://www.sonomacountybar.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Summer-17-Bar-Journal-web-RS.pdf

 

 

 

2017 Elizabeth J. Cabraser Summer Lecture Series

 

Where: Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass

1 Montgomery St., Ste 3000, San Francisco (enter via 120 Kearny St.)

 

When: 7/25/2017

Tuesday, Noon- 1:30pm

 

MCLE Credit: Lecture approved for 1.5 hours MCLE Credit  

 

Amid turmoil surrounding the confirma-tion of Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Court has tackled such pressing issues as juror bias, special education, and the Fourth Amendment’s extraterritorial application. Join us for a review by a renowned constitutional scholar.

 

Erwin Chemerinsky, Incoming Dean of Berkeley Law; Founding Dean of UC Irvine School of Law

 

Please RSVP by July 18 so we can add you to the guest list:

 

lectures@legalaidatwork.org

San Francisco Law Library

When: July 25, 2917

Noon - 1:00 pm

 

 

Presented by:

Tom Engels, PhD, Principal, Horizon Water & Environment

Rob Peterson, PhD, CEQA Project Manager, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)

Jonathan Koltz, Legal Counsel, CPUC

1 hour free Participatory MCLE Credit

 The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is California’s premier environmental law, and a model for similar laws across the country.  Although it’s revered by many, it’s also often derided as a boondoggle that gives undue leverage to NIMBYs and special interest groups.  Governor Brown, for example, has called attempts to ease its restrictions “the Lord’s work.” CEQA requires consideration of environmental impact on the development of “projects,” and requires the consideration and screening of a wide range of alternatives.  It has been controversially invoked as a drag in a wide range of situations, from creating new bike lanes to building large-scale utility projects.

 

In this hour-long program, Tom Engels, PhD, a principal at Horizon Water and Environment; Rob Peterson, PhD, a CEQA project manager at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC); and Jonathan Koltz, a lawyer with the CPUC, will provide a brief overview of the CEQA process, discuss why CEQA’s policy goals can be poorly perceived—and why those perceptions might not be entirely accurate—and explain why CEQA remains a vital tool for informing both the government and the public about the projects subject to the law.  They will provide examples from their work at the CPUC, with a focus on how staff have approached the complex process of reviewing, and finding alternatives for, large utility infrastructure projects with price tags that typically exceed $100 million and that affect thousands of Californians.

 

 

The San Francisco Law Library serves the public and the legal community at its centrally located library near mid-Market and the Civic Center between 7th and 8th Streets, across from the UN Plaza.

 

1145 Market Street, 4th Floor                                                                        
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 554-1772
Fax: (415) 863-4022

Monday - Thursday: 8:30 am to 6 pm
Friday: 8:30 am to 5 pm
Saturday: 10 am to 4 pm

 

Friday, July 21, 2017 

 

Beginning July 24, 2017, parties in certain non-criminal matters in the Santa Clara Superior Court may arrange, at their own expense, for services of a court reporter.

 

The policy is necessary at this time because the Court has experienced a critical shortage of court reporters and has faced difficulty ensuring that criminal, juvenile and family cases are able to proceed on time.

 

Continue reading at: 

 

 http://www.scscourt.org/general_info/rules/pdfs/Policy_re_PrivatelyRetainedCourtReporters.pdf

 

 

Form:

 

 http://www.scscourt.org/forms_and_filing/forms/CV-5063.pdf

 

 

  

The Scalia Lecture

Harvard Law School

November 18, 2015

 

Professor John Manning interviewed Associate Justice Elena Kagan on the reading of statutes as part of the Antonin Scalia Lecture series at Harvard Law School.

 

 

https://youtu.be/dpEtszFT0Tg

 

 

 

 

California Courts Newsroom

 

July 20, 2017 

Blaine Corren

415-865-7740

 

 

The Judicial Council at its July 27-28 business meeting will consider proposed updates to part of the model used to determine how the state’s 58 trial courts are funded.

 

The council uses the Workload-Based Allocation and Funding Methodology (WAFM) to decide how much funding each trial court receives annually, based on the workload at each court. The council will consider a proposal to update the Resource Assessment Study model, which is used as part of WAFM to weigh both the number and type of cases handled when determining a court’s workload. A traffic infraction, for example, takes far fewer resources and staff than does a complex felony, and is given less weight in the calculation.

 

The council last updated the resource model in 2013, realizing that ongoing adjustments would continue to keep up with policy changes that affect work in the courts. Proposition 47, Assembly Bill 109, and Assembly Bill 1657 are all examples of recent initiatives and statutes that have altered court workload.

 

Other items on the July 27-28 council meeting agenda include:

 

Requesting Adjustments to Workload-Based Allocation and Funding Methodology (WAFM): The council will consider revisions to its procedure for requesting adjustments to its funding methodology for the trial courts. The proposed revisions are mostly technical changes related to timing of the process.

 

Providing Legal Representation in Civil Cases: Pursuant to the Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act, the council will consider grants for pilot projects that provide legal representation for low-income litigants in civil cases affecting basic human needs. The council will also consider a progress report to the legislature, the first to measure the impact of pilot programs that have provided legal representation to 27,000 people facing landlord/tenant matters, highly conflicted child custody cases, and guardianship and conservatorship matters.

 

Court Technology Update: The council will receive an update on its Court Technology Governance and Strategic Plan and current technology issues in the trial courts. The update will also highlight recent changes to the council’s Information Technology office that better aligns its structure with the business needs of the branch.

 

Courthouse Closures or Reduced Hours: Per statute and its normal meeting procedures, the council will receive a report on which trial courts have closed courtrooms or clerks’ offices or reduced clerks’ office hours because of budget challenges. Since the previous report, 5 superior courts—San Diego, San Joaquin, Siskiyou, Stanislaus, and Tulare Counties have issued new notices of closures or reductions.

 

The meeting agenda and council reports have been posted online, and a link to the live videocast of the meeting will be on the California Courts website on the day of the meeting.

 

 

 http://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/council-to-consider-updates-to-trial-court-funding

 

 

On Saturday, May 20, 2017, the Cambridge Public Library hosted Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who spoke as part of the library's Democracy Day activities. The talk took place at the library's main lecture hall and was filmed by Seth Myer.

 

 

 https://youtu.be/4OAUx5k0Anw

 

 

 

Metropolitan News-Enterprise

Monday, July 17, 2017

 

By a MetNews Staff Writer

 

MICHAEL G. COLANTUONO State Bar President-Elect

 

Nevada County attorney Michael G. Colantuono, of the firm of Colantuono, Highsmith & Whatley, PC, was elected on Friday as 2017-18 State Bar president by the Board of Trustees.

 

Jason P. Lee, who is on extended leave as an attorney in Los Angeles for the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, was chosen to serve as vice president and San Diego lawyer Todd F. Stevens of Keeney Waite & Stevens was selected as treasurer, a post he currently holds.

 

Outgoing State Bar President James P. Fox said:

“I welcome this new board leadership team, and am confident they will continue the momentum of reform and ensure a focus on the agency’s core public protection mission. We have accomplished much, but there is still more work to do.”

 

Colantuono was city attorney for Calabasas from 2003-2012. He said at the time that he left the post because of the long commute between that city, in the northwest portion of Los Angeles County, and his home in Grass Valley, near Sacramento.

 

He also maintains an office in Pasadena.

 

A certified appellate specialist, he is a member of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers. He has argued in all six of California’s appellate districts.

 

Colantuono Michael graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and received his law degree from Boalt Hall. He was admitted in 1989.

His appointment to the Board of Trustees was by the Assembly.

 

Lee received his undergraduate degree from UCLA, his JD from Santa Clara University School of Law, and a master of laws, with distinction, from Georgetown University Law Center.

 

He is a former chair of the Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation. The California Supreme Court placed him on the Board of Trustees.

 

Stevens has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Seattle and a law degree from the University of San Diego.

 

In 1999, he became the first openly gay president of the San Diego County Bar Association. He served in 2000-2002 as the president of the Bar Foundation of the county bar.

 

He was elected to the Board of Trustees by attorneys in District Four.

 

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