This Month's Program (via Zoom)
The Board of Trustees for the State Bar of California, the regulatory body for attorneys, directed formation of a California Paraprofessionals Working Group at its meeting on January 24, 2020. The working group will submit its final report and recommendations by September 30, 2021. Among the recommendations considered will be the ability of non-licensed lawyers to own law firms and for non-licensed lawyers to perform some of the tasks that are currently performed by lawyers.
Erin Joyce is a former prosecutor for the State Bar and has become very familiar with the recommendations that are to be made in September. She will share with all of us the background and what has transpired to date.
THIS WILL HAVE DRAMATIC IMPLICATIONS ON THE FUTURE OF LEGAL SERVICES IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. You need to become educated and know more about these very controversial recommendations.
As always, I request that you RSVP so that we can plan the morning program.
Attorney Erin Joyce has extensive experience in State Bar investigations and disciplinary proceedings, plus over twenty-five years of civil litigation practice.
Erin was admitted in 1990 and practiced for nearly eight years in an intellectual property boutique before joining the Office of Chief Trial Counsel as a prosecutor for the State Bar, from 1997 through 2016. Erin has almost twenty years of experience handling all aspects of discipline cases against attorneys in State Bar Court, from the filing of the complaint through trial and review. She has personally tried dozens of State Bar trials and several appeals. Erin has a comprehensive understanding of how State Bar investigations and proceedings unfold.
Before going into private practice, Erin served as Chief Special Investigator for the Los Angeles Fire Department, as a prosecutor for the State Bar of California, and as a lawyer for multiple private practices.