By Katie Parker Associate Professor, USD School of Law In Bargaining for Advantage, Wharton Professor G. Richard Shell writes: “Behaving well in negotiations gives you an opportunity to express your identity as a moral person,...
Dear Counsel, Somewhere along the way, you may have been taught that to be an effective attorney for your clients, you need to put on a tough front. You’re taught to be the aggressive,...
Every new attorney-client engagement must begin with a conflict check. In this process, the law firm endeavors to discover whether it has ever represented any of the parties involved in the matter prior to...
Around a conference table at the SDCBA Bar Center, lawyers with decades of experience gathered to discuss a pressing question of how do we build better mentorship in the profession? The conversation was led...
Many of you might remember Bradwell v. Illinois, 83 U.S. 130 (1872), from your law school days. The Supreme Court held that the Privileges and Immunities Clause did not guarantee a right to practice one’s...
Dear Counsel, February asks us to love. It’s all around us, almost obnoxiously. Roses everywhere, balloons filling up stores. It’s a great reminder for us to show love to those in our lives. But...
This topic will not go away: misuse of generative AI producing hallucinated case citations and quotations. As of early February 2026, there have been more than 600 judicial decisions across the United States in...
Hello SDCBA New Lawyer Division, I know many of you – but for those I have not yet met – my name is Robert Shawhan, and I am the new Vice Chair of the...
When I think about how I became a lawyer, I don’t picture a classroom or a courtroom. I picture a small suitcase and my family leaving everything behind. I was a little girl in...
The State Bar of California Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct Practice Guidance for the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Practice of Law Executive Summary By Charles Berwanger Generative AI is...