Marin County Bar Association

TUE | MAR 19 | 12:00-1:30P

Retirement benefits are often the major asset in most divorce cases. There are approximately one million divorces per year and yet only about 40 pension division experts to assist family law attorneys and judges. A new web based platform enables a paradigm change and empowers family law attorneys with added ability to best represent their clients and meet the duty of competence.

From this ethics talk, participants will understand the family law attorney’s duty of competence regarding retirement benefit division in divorce which requires (1) understanding and use of technology and (2) not to commit malpractice.

https://marinbar.org/events/?type=event&id=255

Marin County Bar Association

TUE | MAR 12 | 12:00-1:00P

California attorneys are now governed by a new set of Rules of Professional Conduct. Join us to learn about the key changes and how they may affect your practice.

https://marinbar.org/events/?type=event&id=252

Marin County Bar Association

THU | MAR 07 | 11:30A-2:00P

SPEAKERS Len Rifkind | Rifkind Law Group Spencer Scheer | Scheer Law Group LLP Chris Skelton | Rifkind Law Group Wanden Treanor | Law Offices of Wanden Treanor Scott Williams | Williams & Gumbiner LLP Derek Weller | Law Offices of Derek Weller

An annual Real Property Section meeting to review the significant updates with an esteemed panel. The event sells out each year. Register early

https://marinbar.org/events/?type=event&id=254

Contra Costa Bar Association

Thursday, March 21, 11:30 am – 1:15 pm

Silicon Valley has been an incubator for startups for over 50 years, and throughout those years, the model for forming and financing startup companies has been refined to near perfection. Today the standard formation and financing documents anticipate the issues and challenges that routinely arise in a new company – with founders who are often young, bright and have just met each other. Please join Carole Bellis, Partner in the Silicon Valley office of Kilpatrick Townsend, an incorporator of thousands of startups, Wes Jackson, Co-Founder and CEO of Valitor, a startup in the therapeutic protein space who led the fundraising efforts to close Valitor’s Series A financing, and Mike Lyons, Managing Director of NewLine Ventures and Adjunct Professor at Stanford, as they walk you through the key considerations for founders and share some of the lessons they have learned along the way.

http://www.cccba.org/attorney/calendar/event.php?id=12634

Contra Costa Bar Association

Tuesday, March 19, 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm

In their interactive program, Hon. Robert Freedman (Ret.) and Hon. Ignazio Ruvolo (Ret.) will examine the ethical quandaries unique to participation in mediation and arbitration. The program is intended to anticipate and cope with real life ethical challenges for lawyers and their clients including risks of professional liability and disciplinary proceedings.

http://www.cccba.org/attorney/calendar/event.php?id=12439

Contra Costa Bar Association

Friday, March 15, 7:30 am – 9:00 am

This will be a presentation on conflicts between LLC members and managers involving fiduciary duties, member rights, and managerial discretion and dissolution.

Speaker Kevin Brodehl is a co-founding partner of Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP.

http://www.cccba.org/attorney/calendar/event.php?id=12623

Contra Costa Bar Association

Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 12:00 PM until 1:15 PM

PRESENTING and DEFENDING REQUESTS FOR ATTORNEY’S FEES AFTER MORTON

Presenter: Garrett C. Dailey, Esq., CFLS

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Contra Costa Bar Association

Friday, March 1, 11:45 am – 1:15 pm

Roberto Dulce is a 12 year veteran of the major crimes unit at the Fresno County Public Defender's Office, is a certified specialist in criminal law, and is known for winning impossible cases at jury trial. Join this session to learn from one of the true contemporary masters of jury trials.

http://www.cccba.org/attorney/calendar/event.php?id=12303

Northern California Record

February 21, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO – The California State Bar is pushing efforts to increase interest rates on the Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts (IOLTA), a fund that helps in part to provide legal aid grants.

Those efforts are expected help interest earned on the accounts reach record highs this year, the California State Bar said in a Feb. 20 release. Over half of the state bar’s legal aid grant funds came from IOLTA in the last 35 years.

https://norcalrecord.com/stories/511784194-california-state-bar-says-it-is-working-to-grow-fund-that-provides-legal-aid-grants?utm_source=Northern%2BCalifornia%2BRecord&utm_campaign=bffc996aae-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9464329f79-bffc996aae-65900859

Stanford Lawyer

February 21, 2019

 On Wednesday, February 20, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment protects citizens against excessive fines and civil forfeitures at not only the federal but also at the state and local levels. The case was brought by Tyson Timbs of Indiana whose car was seized after he was arrested for selling drugs. In the Q&A that follows, Stanford Law Professor Robert Weisberg discusses the problem of civil forfeitures and excessive fines in the state and local criminal justice system and the potential impact of this decision.

https://law.stanford.edu/2019/02/21/274296/