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Know Your New Rules
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in as part of the Contra Costa County Bar Association MCLE Spectacular in November 2018. Following years of drafting, review and revision, the California Supreme Court has ordered new Rules of Professional Conduct to go into effect November 1, 2018. This is the first such comprehensive overhaul of...
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Recognizing Potential Issues Related to Paralegal Utilization In California Editor’s Note: This article was updated in December 2020. The original was published as part of Contra Costa County Bar Association’s MCLE Spectacular in November 2016. Paralegals are ubiquitous in today’s legal landscape. As of 2019, there were an estimated 337,800 paralegals employed in the United...
Read ArticleWhen Disaster Strikes: Practicing Law in a World of Climate Change, Covid and Cyber Attacks
Editor’s Note: This article was updated in December 2020. The original was published in the July 2016 issue of Contra Costa Lawyer magazine. One day you are sitting at your desk counting the days until your trip to Hawaii, and then a week later you find out that your state’s rate of COVID is so...
Read ArticleCaution! Immigration Ethics under the Trump Administration, December 2020
Editor’s Note: This article was updated in December 2020. The original was published as part of the Contra Costa County Bar Association’s MCLE Spectacular in November 2017. To say that the Trump Administration’s immigration policies represent a change from those of the Obama Administration is an understatement. President Trump has accused parents of abusing protections...
Read Article2020 Update of a Brief Overview of the Transgender Employee in California & Their Rights in the Workplace
Editor’s Note: This article was updated in December 2020. The original was published in the February 2017 issue of Contra Costa Lawyer magazine. The ensuing 2020 update to the previous 2017 article, provides a brief overview of the current status of the California transgender population, rather startling statistics concerning discrimination faced by the transgender community...
Read ArticleCompetence: Substance Abuse in the Legal Profession; Bad and Getting Worse
Note: The information in this article is based both upon the sources cited and the empirical observations and insights gained by Mr. Mann over the course of his 13 years of full-time experience working with California lawyers, judges and law students suffering from substance use disorders. The legal profession has a reputation for many things....
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