Board of Trustees and Assignments
Officers
President - Mary E. Gilstrap
Judicial Liaison, Community Outreach, New Memberships
President - Elect, David Mulé
DBA Luncheons, 2011-12 Installation
Secretary - Patricia S. Muro
Family Law Section
Treasurer - Michael B. Rover
New Memberships
Trustees
Julie A. Rosser - Bird Awards, Website & Email Coordinator
Karen J. Sloat - Client Relations, Bird Awards
Carlos L. Campos - Senior Law Day, Adopt-a-School
James T. Latting - Mediation, Adopt-a-School
Kimberly T. Lee - Senior Law Day
Robert J. Gilliland, Jr. - Fee Arbitration
Roger K. Tansey - Media Relations, New Memberships, Senior Law Day
Immediate Past Presidents
Barbara R. Baron
Matt Morris
New Members
- Rochelle A'Hearn
- Terry Anderson
- Hon. Arthur Block, Ret.
- Stephen Lachs
- Thomas McDermott
- Walter Mitchell
- Holly Moore
- Robert Sawicky
- Hon. Robert Taylor, Ret.
Past Events
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Desert Bar Association
Items of Interest
FAMILY LAW SECTION NEWSLETTER - MAY 2012 EDITION
The May 2012 edition of the Desert Bar Association Family Law Section Newsletter is now available for download.
FEDERAL BAR ASSOCIATION INLAND EMPIRE CHAPTER TWELFTH ANNUAL CONSTITUTIONAL LAW FORUM
Federal Bar Association Inland Empire Chapter presents its Twelfth Annual Constitutional Law Forum, featuring Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California, Irvine School of Law. Also presenting the 2012 Erwin Chemerinsky Defender of the Constitution Award to Dale K. Galipo. Tuesday, May 15, 2012, Noon - 1:30 p.m., at the Hilton San Bernardino, 285 E. Hospitality Lane, San Bernardino, CA 92408.
STATE BAR MCLE AUDIT ALERT
The State Bar is taking a more aggressive approach to auditing MCLE compliance than it has historically. All California lawyers need to be aware of this change in the Bar’s MCLE auditing process. California lawyers must fulfill and accurately document and report their MCLE requirements. No California attorney should be surprised if their compliance certificate is audited.
NEW CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD
The National Lawyers Guild is a non-profit legal and political organization comprised of lawyers, legal workers, law students, and jailhouse lawyers, now celebrating 75 years since the Guild’s founding. There must be a minimum of eight dues paying members to form a chapter. They are now taking applications to form a chapter in the Inland Empire. Until a new chapter is formed, members can be designated as "at large". Chapter members can be lawyers, legal workers, law students, or jailhouse lawyers.
FAMILY LAW SECTION NEWSLETTER - APRIL 2012 EDITION
The April 2012 edition of the Desert Bar Association Family Law Section Newsletter is now available for download.
TO SUMMARILY ADJUDICATE OR NOT ADJUDICATE: THE RECENT AMENDMENTS TO § 437c
California's statutory summary judgment and adjudication provisions are found in Code of Civil Procedure section 437c. The statue was amended by the state legislature effective January 1, 2012.
FREE MCLE PROGRAMS FROM THE OFFICE OF LEGAL SERVICES
The State Bar Office of Legal Services has worked with legal aid advocates and the Practising Law Institute (PLI) to develop these training programs which are available on demand at the PLI website. Registration is free.
2012 PATHWAYS TO JUSTICE CONFERENCE
Please mark your calendar for the 2012 Pathways to Justice Conference, June 7-8, 2012, UC Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco. Don't miss this excellent opportunity to attend cutting edge programs, earn MCLE credit, and network with legal services colleagues.
URGENT ACTION REQUEST - REPORTS ON THE EFFECTS OF THE REDUCTION IN COURT FUNDING
The Desert Bar Association would like to encourage local attorneys to submit Reports on the Effects of Judicial Branch Budget Reductions on Legal Practitioners, Their Clients, and Court Users to the Judicial Council Office of California.
AYOTTE & SHACKELFORD UPDATE INDIO COURT NUMBERS IN DIRECTORY
Ayotte & Shackelford have updated, as of November 2011, the numbers for the Indio Courthouse in the Ayotte & Shackelford Directory of Attorneys, and are making the revised page immediately available via download.
NEW LEGAL ETHICS AND TECHNOLOGY RESOURCE PAGE IS ONLINE
The general Ethics Information page at the State Bar website has added a new area dedicated to Ethics and Technology ― a collection of resources that address professional responsibility issues raised by the use of Internet websites, email, chat rooms and other technologies. The resources include advisory ethics opinions, articles and MCLE programs.
BAR RULES ARE NOW AVAILABLE IN AN E-READER
To facilitate a lawyer’s ability to readily identify and address legal ethics issues, the State Bar has published an e-Reader version of the Rules of Professional Conduct and the State Bar Act. The e-Reader version of the rule book is compatible with the Kindle Reader App, a free e-Reader application available for iPads, iPhones, Blackberry phones, Android phones, Macbooks and PC laptops. The book also works on all versions of Amazon.com’s Kindle.
STATE BAR FEE BILL SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR
Gov. Brown signed a measure authorizing the State Bar to collect $400 for most active lawyers, $115 for inactive lawyers and to offer an option to donate $20 to legal services programs.
RESULTS OF THE DBA ELECTION
The votes have been tallied, and we are now happy to announce your incoming Officers and Board of Trustees of the Desert Bar Association for 2011-2012 are...
CA SUPREME COURT OPINION: CASSEL V. SUPERIOUR COURT OF LOS ANGELES (SUPER. CT. NO. LC070478, FILED 1/13/11)
"The issue here is the effect of the mediation confidentiality statutes on private discussions between a mediating client and attorneys who represented him in the mediation. ... The [Court of Appeal] majority concluded, when a mediation disputant sues his own counsel for malpractice in connection with the mediation, the attorneys — already freed, by reason of the malpractice suit, from the attorney-client privilege — cannot use mediation confidentiality as a shield to exclude damaging evidence of their own entirely private conversations with the client. The dissenting justice urged that the majority had crafted an unwarranted judicial exception to the clear and absolute provisions of the mediation confidentiality statutes. Though we understand the policy concerns advanced by the Court of Appeal majority, the plain language of the statutes compels us to agree with the dissent."
ABA Journal: Plaintiff Who Discussed Suit with Lawyer on Work E-Mail Can’t Claim Privilege
A woman who sued her employer claiming discrimination can’t shield her lawyer e-mails in the litigation because they were sent from her work e-mail account, a California appeals court has ruled.
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