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Board
of Governor Meetings
Your Wilshire Bar Association Board of Governors convenes the first Tuesday
of every month at 6:00 p.m. Our next Board meeting is Tuesday,
May 5th, 2009.
If you have any ideas how our Wilshire Bar may continue to contribute to our
Bar and our Community, or any suggestions for events or speakers, please
contact David L. Rukstalis, Jr. Esq. at 310-649-7580 or by
email to present your ideas to the Board.
Your
Wilshire Bar Association provides
activities and opportunities for attorneys in and around Wilshire Boulevard from Santa Monica to downtown Los Angeles, California, including Continuing Education of the Bar, Educational
Interaction with the Judiciary, Links to Legal Resources, Networking, and
Community Out-Reach Programs.
We
particularly look forward each year to our "Bench and Bar" Dinner
and our Appellate Justices Luncheon.
Calendar
of Events
MCLE
Luncheon – Electronic Discovery – September 15, 2009
On Tuesday
September 15, 2009 at Taix Restaurant located at 1911 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90026, the Wilshire Bar Association will have
an MCLE Luncheon beginning at noon. Jacques Nack Ngue, CISA and Michael
Swarz, J.D. of eClaris, Inc., an electronic discovery consultancy and service
provider, will be speaking. The hour-long seminar is entitled as Spotlight
on Electronic Discovery: What Every Attorney Should Know and is aimed at
giving the audience a better sense of how to prepare for litigation that
involves electronic evidence. The goal of the presentation will be to
impart practical strategies and best practices for conducting Electronic
Discovery by covering risk management protocols,
applicable law and the process itself. eClaris is dedicated to helping law
firms and corporations classify, process and review electronically stored
information. For more information about eClaris, please visit their
website at www.eclaris.com The presentation will entitle
those in attendance to 1 hour of MCLE Credit. The cost for the lunch and
program is $25.00 and reservations are required. Please call (213) 384-4088
Ext. 4105 and reserve your space with Cheri Munger.
Annual
Dues
If you have not paid in your 2009 Dues, please fill out the Application and
return it with your $60 dues made payable to the Wilshire Bar Association, to
David Bloom, at his address, above. Need another application? Go to the
Membership Application link to the left of this page.
Special
Thank Yous and Congratulations
Congratulations to Christopher Marshall, our former
President, who was recently appointed to a judgeship in the San Bernardino Superior Court.
Thank you to Edward O. Lear, Esq. for your
"reely" interesting lecture on "Reel Justice" and general
ethics issues. The Verdict is that all who attended enjoyed it.
Thank you to Joel Douglas, Esq. of the firm of Bonne,
Bridges, Mueller, O'Keefe & Nichols for your highly ethical MCLE lecture
on "The Ethics of Bluffing."
Thank you to Honorable Lee Smalley Edmon of the Los Angeles Superior Court, Civil, for your
informative and interesting MCLE lecture on "What's Happening in the
Superior Courts of L.A."
Thank you to Dr. William (Bill) Patzert, Oceanographer.
Patzert is a scientist at the California Institute of Technology’s NASA Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California and was our keynote
speaker at our Annual Appellate Justices Luncheon. Great presentation Doc!
Dr. Patzert's biography:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/bios/patzert_bio.html
Thank you Judge Barry Russell, Chief Judge of the
Bankruptcy Court, for your MCLE lecture to the Wilshire Bar on the new
bankruptcy law.
Congrats Wilshire Bar Board Member Phil Putnam; elected to
South Pasadena City Council. Phil Putnam is the
former Mayor of South Pasadena.
Special thank you to our Association's photographer
John Michael Ferrari for his photographic event coverage.
Thank you to Honorable Retired Judge Lawrence
("Larry") Crispo, who spoke to our Association about the current
issues in mediation.
Thank you to Richard P. Carlton, MPH, of the Education, Research and
Development Section of the Lawyer Assistance Program of the State Bar of California. Mr. Carlton spoke on "The Common
Pitfalls of Legal Practice: An examination of the substance abuse, mental
health and stress challenges commonly encountered by legal professionals and
the resources that are available to address these problems."
Thank you to licensed privated investigator, Timothy
Williams, Jr., who shared with our Association Ethical Issues Involved in
Investigation in Civil Litigation. For more information about Mr. Williams,
please visit WWW.TTWILLIAMSPI.COM.
Thank you to jury consultant Harry Plotkin, who spoke
about seating a receptive jury. For information about Mr. Plotkin, and for
some helpful jury selection information, please visit Your Next
Jury.
Thank you to Julie Krone, racing Hall of Fame member and
Triple Crown winning jockey, for her most interesting and inspiring talk at
our annual Appellate Justices Luncheon, and thank you to all the Justices and
Judges who attended.
Thank you to Peter Y. Stephan, CPA, for the weatlh of
information you provided about tax resolution issues. For further
information, and to contact Mr. Stephan, please call him at 818-704-1443, or
email at petercpa@sbcglobal.net.
Thank you Howard D. Rosen, Esq., of Donlevy-Rosen &
Rosen, P.A., for your thorough presentation about asset protection. For more
information about Mr. Rosen, please visit his website at www.protectyou.com/howardrosen.html
Thank you to all the Judges and Justices who attended our Appellate
Justices Luncheon on June 4, 2009.
Thank you to Poet Laureate Nominee Bruce Sievers for your dynamic and
inspiring poetry reading and lecture at the Luncheon.
Member
Discounts
WBA members receive a 10% discount at the
online gift store, Artistor.com.
Artistor, an online art colony, has truly unique gifts and
fine art.
For the discount, use the coupon code at check out: magic.
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