September brings back-to-school excitement to many San Diegans, including law students at our three local law schools. For practicing attorneys, fall may be a return to work after weeks of vacation, or just a return to full calendars and caseloads. The SDCBA and the New Lawyer Division provide a variety of opportunities for lawyers to take a break from their busy schedules – or dive deeper into learning – with social events, CLE, and volunteer opportunities.Read More
The Toll of Declining Trust: Can America’s Faith in the Courts be Restored?
By Sara Gold Eastman IP
Less than half of Americans approve of the way the United States Supreme Court is handling its job, according to a July 2022 Gallup poll. Just prior to the Court’s landmark decisions this year in Dobbs, Kennedy and others, only a quarter of Americans reported having a “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the Court, a historic low in Gallup’s 50-year survey.Read More
By Matthew Spolsky Ford, Walker, Haggert & Behar LLP
Veneeta Jaswal has known from a young age that she wanted to be a “laywer,” as she wrote in second grade when asked what she wanted to be when she grew up. It is safe to say that this future litigator would be proud to see what became of her dream.Read More
Criminal defense lawyer Benjamin Cheeks, an attorney of nearly 20 years, says this profession “fell in his lap” while he was studying to be an engineer. He attended an engineering high school and then began college as an engineering major. In college, Cheeks took a course on the U.S. presidents, which addressed the United States constitution and how the early presidents interpreted it. From there he began taking more political science classes and eventually switched his major to political science and religious studies.Read More
