Fall Marks the Final Season to Prepare for the Corporate Transparency Act The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) was designed to assist the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in combating money laundering and other financial...
Message from the NLD Chair Holiday Greetings NLD! As this year comes to an end, I find myself bidding farewell to 2023 with a sense of gratitude for the NLD executive committee that I...
Ethically Managing Your Legal Intake Support Staff It is important for lawyers to have a solid understanding of their ethical responsibilities when managing and supervising nonlawyer assistants involved in the client intake process. Recently,...
Raising the Limited Jurisdictional Limit: What Could this Mean for Consumers? Currently in California state court the jurisdictional limit for a limited civil case is $25,000 or less. As some of you may know,...
Tips from the Bench: Hon. Blaine Bowman On the fourth floor of San Diego Superior Court’s North County Division is department N-31 of which Judge Blaine Bowman presides. Judge Bowman operates a “stress free...
Message From the Co-Editor-in-Chief As Co-Editor-in-Chief of the New Lawyer Division (“NLD”) monthly newsletter, For the Record, I wanted to thank each of our readers for their continued support. I also want to thank...
NLD Event Recap: Annual Meeting On August 31, 2023, the New Lawyer Division (NLD) hosted its first Annual Meeting to talk with members about how NLD can best meet the needs of new lawyers...
NLD Member Spotlight: Regina (Calvario) Dryjanski “One of my favorite parts of doing my job is knowing that I am on the right side — the side that protects the rights of vulnerable people,” says...
Reliability & Liability of AI Attorneys As expected, the exponential growth of artificial intelligence (AI) will change the future of humanity.[1] But what will be the effect of AI on the legal aspects of...
NLD Member Spotlight: Sara Gold Once a writer, always a writer, as Sara Gold likes to say. A former Orange County Register news reporter, Sara found that her love for research, interviewing, and writing...