Thu 9 May 2013
Alfonso Martinez had been practicing law for less than a year when he received the letter last August: The State Bar was auditing him for compliance with its Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) requirements. “It was unheard of,” says Martinez, an associate at Dion Law Office in Westlake Village. “I showed the letter to my buddies from law school and to people who had been practicing law for over ten years. No one had ever seen anything like it.”
MCLE Audits Catch Lawyers Off Guard (May 1, 2013)
Sun 5 May 2013
Josephine Lee, 75, moved to El Cerrito from New Jersey 10 years ago and immediately fell in love with the area. The mild summers and warm winters were a big change from the East Coast extremes she was used to, and it made her want to spend all her time outside. So she joined the Over-the-Hills Gang—a group of hikers age 55 and over who explore city, county, and state parks around the East Bay.
Sun 5 May 2013
While working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Diana Brown heard a story that changed her life. One of her managers told her about his childhood in foster care, how he had lost his parents at age 2 and then suffered years of abuse at the hands of his foster mother, his aunt. The story stuck with Brown; she couldn’t stop thinking about kids trapped in similar situations. She started to probe deeper and learned the grim statistics: Only 50 percent of foster youth graduate from high school, and, of those, only 20 percent continue on to higher education. And three out of every 10 homeless people are former foster kids.
Taking Wing (May 1, 2013)
Thu 28 Mar 2013
For more than 40 years, Jack Ball has been a triathlete, weight lifter, swimmer, cyclist, coach, and gym teacher at Berkeley’s King Middle School. The Berkeley resident now teaches senior fitness and weight room orientation at the Berkeley YMCA, where some of his students remember him as Mr. Ball from his middle school coaching days. He regularly hits the weight room and pool and goes on a long run or bike ride at least twice week.
“I’m a little overboard for someone my age,” says Ball, now 73.
The Aging Athlete (East Bay Monthly, march 2013)
Thu 28 Mar 2013
In his Oakland neighborhood, everyone knows Joe Tuman.
“You look just like that guy on CBS,” teases one man he runs into at Peet’s Coffee and Tea near the Claremont Hotel. “You should sign his books for him.”
Tuman laughs.
“You were good last night,” says another, referring to Tuman’s appearance on CBS 5 where he commented on President Obama’s State of the Union address in February. “But I guess you can’t always speak your mind on TV.”
“Oh, I do,” says Tuman, 54, simply.
Personal Politician (Easy Bay Monthly, March 2013)
Tags: baby boomers, communication, east bay monthly, exercise, fitness, joe tuman, oakland, politics, pundits, rfk, triathalons, turkeys, turloc
Thu 28 Mar 2013
In 2011 Elizabeth Hennessey-Severson applied to take the Law School Admission Test in San Francisco. Diagnosed with dyslexia and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder while in high school, she requested extra time to complete the test. She submitted copious material to the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) – including full neurological tests, psychologists’ letters, and evidence of prior accommodations with other tests. Her request was denied.
Time Trials (California Lawyer, March 2013)
Mon 10 Dec 2012
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A viral video is a great way to bring attention to your business or show off your video-creating talents. And while it’s almost impossible to predict what will go viral, there are certain things that you can include in your videos to increase the odds that you’ll have a smash Internet hit on your hands. A viral video is any video that becomes popular by being passed from person to person via the Web. (It’s quite similar to a “meme,” which refers to any content that is passed along in the same manner.)
How to Make a Viral Video – 11 Tips to Create a YouTube Sensation (Videomaker, January 2013)
Tags: cats, gangnam style, internet, keyboard cat, meme, my little pony, nyan cat, online communities, pop culture, Videomaker, viral video, walking dead
Fri 2 Nov 2012
EMPLOYMENT: Busy Work
Employment law continues to be an active and growing practice area, bearing out the conventional wisdom that more employment lawsuits are filed in a down economy. Employers are shopping for lower rates for employment legal work, making it a busy practice area for mid-market firms.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: No End to Litigation This was a boom year for intellectual property law in California, with Los Angeles and Silicon Valley remaining hot spots for tech and patents. The Central District of California continues to be the nation’s third-busiest venue for patent cases (336 in 2011), after the Eastern District of Texas and the District of Delaware. Further south, growth in San Diego’s life science and pharmaceutical companies has created more IP work for law firms.
Legal Industry Outline (California Lawyer, November, 2012)
Sat 13 Oct 2012
Sitting in his corner office at Wind River in Alameda, Jerry Fiddler often looked out the window to the Bay, where local sailing schools took new students out for training.
“They were always taking the kids out in dinghies to teach them to sail,” says Fiddler, a Berkeley resident who served as Wind River’s CEO and chairman from 1981 to 2008. “They looked like they were having so much fun falling out of the boats that I wanted to try it, too.”
Senior Smarts (East Bay Monthly, October 2012)
Sat 13 Oct 2012
Banks have traditionally viewed law firms as stable investments, because no matter the state of the economy, there’s always a demand for lawyers. But the worst of the recent recession and several high-profile law firm bankruptcies in the past year have disproved that truism. Now, in California and across the country, many banks regard loan applications from law firms with a more critical eye, so hopeful applicants need to take every opportunity to demonstrate that their firms are a good risk.
How Law Firms Get Loans (California Lawyer, October 2012)
