20Feb
26Jan
President’s Message: Aaron Mohamed, January 2023
By Aaron Mohamed Dear Fellow Bar Members: Welcome to the practice of law in Santa Cruz County, in 2023. I am happy to be serving as this year's President of the Bar Association. This brief message is meant to provide an update as to what the Bar Association...
22Dec
Bench Bar Meeting: December 7, 2022
Rick Gazipura, SCCBA Director at Large and Bench Bar Liaison, submits his report from the Bench Bar meeting. 12/7/2022, BENCH BAR MEETING Judge Volkmann Thanks to Alex Calvo for his many years of work at the court. Civil jury trials have been happening for the last several months. There...
04Oct
Annual Awards Program on October 20, 2022
Please join us as we celebrate this year's recipients of the Roland K. Hall Award and the Access to Justice Award. This year our awardees are: Madeline Boriss for the Roland K. Hall Award and Michael Mehr will receive the Access to Justice Award. The event will...
04Oct
Access to Justice Series: Diversification of the Legal Profession Will Provide Our Community with Greater Access to Justice
By Gina Occhipinti-Borasi, Board Member, Santa Cruz County Bar Association Customarily, attorneys engage in the following methods to allow underrepresented and low-income persons access justice: pro bono work, reduction of legal fees, and participation in the county’s lawyer referral service. An additional and imperative way to...
04Oct
MCLE Speaker Spotlight: Joy McMurtry
Joy McMurtry is a Chief Deputy Public Defender with Monterey County. McMurtry has been with the county for 15 and ½ years, and before that was a Public Defender in Wyoming for 5 years and a prosecutor for 4 years. In addition to her legal...
04Oct
MCLE Speaker Spotlight: Jane Becker
Tax attorney, Jane Becker, will review how to resolve a decedent's outstanding tax issues (unfiled and/or unpaid filings) including the non-reporting of offshore assets with an emphasis on doing so as quickly and expeditiously as possible. Jane will also review pre-death and post-death steps that...
09Aug
MCLE Speaker Spotlight: Rizza Gonzales
Rizza Gonzales is a 2006 graduate of the University of Southern California where she graduated with degrees in Political Science, Sociology, and English Literature, she graduated from the University of California, LA, School of Law in 2009 where she received her JD and joined Century...
09Aug
Is passing the California Bar Exam necessary for admittance to the Bar?
By Jane Becker and Lori KingWe may be in for some surprising, and controversial, changes.
In early July, the SCCBA Board of Directors learned that the State Bar, and its Blue Ribbon Commission on the Bar’s Future, were considering eliminating the bar exam for some admittees...
08Aug