22Dec
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
An interview with Julia Clayton, founder and President of the The Lawyers Depression Project
By Lori King Julia Clayton had OCD episodes as a teenager and managed to power her way through school, and then college. During her first summer job at law school, working for a federal judge in Sacramento, her anxiety and obsessive-compulsive behavior was “off the charts”....
01Jul
MCLE Speaker Spotlight: Craig Needham
Craig Needham is a founding partner with the firm Needham Kepner & Fish LLP. Born in Palo Alto, Craig graduated from Bellarmine College Prep, Santa Clara University, and Hastings College of the Law. After serving in the military, he worked for a plaintiff’s trial law...
01Jul