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This MCLE event has been postponed from March 29th, 2022 to Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 at noon.

When: Wednesday, April 13th, 2022, from 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

Where: Zoom

MCLE: 1.0 Hours MCLE (General)

Speaker(s): David Andreasen

David Andreasen is a Santa Barbara-based staff attorney with the nonprofit California Appellate Project, Los Angeles. He has been representing clients in criminal appeals since 2007.

About the Event: Last session, the Legislature passed a number of new laws aimed at reducing sentences. Now that the courts have had a couple of months to interpret some of them, we will be discussing what has changed, and who may be affected.

Price: $10 Members/$15 Non-Members

Please mail checks by Monday, April 11th, 2022, payable to Santa Barbara Bar Association, 15 W. Carrillo Street #106, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

You may also click the link here to pay via Venmo. Or call (805) 569-5511 to pay via credit card.

Contact Information/R.S.V.P.: Please RSVP by Monday, April 11th, 2022, to: Jeff Chambliss Esq., [email protected] and Lida Sideris [email protected]

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Join us as we explore emerging legal and social justice issues from 2021, including cryptocurrency, constitutional law, trust and estates, and family law.

When: Friday, January 21st, 2022 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Cost: $25 for Members/$35 for Non-Members

Featuring Keynote Speaker: 

Justin Brooks
Director and Co-Founder of the California Innocence Project

Up to six hours of MCLE credit, including mandatory subject units.

Click the link here to register online!

Special thank you for our sponsor:

Amherst 1031

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When: Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 12:00 noon

Where: Zoom

MCLE: 1 Hour General (pending)

Description: Determining the location of an individual at a specific point in time can make or break a case. You can use location data to present an alibi in defense, discredit a witness or party, show how long someone was on the road prior to a crash, establish where a digital contract was signed, and more. This unique webinar will show you how to find and use location data in your case. We will answer your live questions, and walk through real-world location analysis. You will come away knowing where to find data to support your case, as well as how to analyze some of the data yourself.

Speaker: Brian Chase is a Director of Digital Forensics at ArcherHall, an expert witness, and an adjunct professor of law. Before joining ArcherHall, he was a practicing attorney and the owner of Chase Technology Consulting, a legal technology consulting firm providing digital forensics and e-discovery expertise.  He has worked with various sized law firms both in an IT and legal capacity. He has consulted with firms on their use of technology within the office, and has provided expert testimony in criminal and civil matters ranging from misdemeanors to murder to medical malpractice. 

Price:  $10/Members; $15/Non-members

Please mail checks by Wednesday, November 3, 2021 payable to Santa Barbara Bar Association, 15 W. Carrillo Street Suite 106, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

You may also click the link here to pay via Venmo.

Contact Information/RSVP: Please RSVP by Wednesday, November 3, 2021 to:  Mark Coffin at [email protected] and Lida Sideris at [email protected]

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When: September 3rd, 2021, from 12:00 P.M. – 1:15 P.M.

Where: Via Zoom

MCLE: 1 Hour Ethics (pending)

Speaker(s): Wendy L. Patrick is a past Chair and advisor to the California State Bar’s Ethics Committee. She is a Deputy District Attorney with over 165 trials, ranging from first-degree murder to domestic violence to stalking. She has been selected as one of the Top Ten criminal attorneys in San Diego and named the Ronald M. George Public Lawyer of the year. Wendy is an author and media personality who has appeared multiple times on CNN, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, and a variety of other national news programs.

About the Event: Most legal ethics programs focus on how applicable rules, laws, and related opinions govern a lawyer´s behavior when he or she is practicing law. But what rules apply to a lawyer´s behavior off the clock?

The answer is: ethically, a lawyer is never off the clock. This program will focus on the rules, statutes, case law, principles, and guidelines that govern a lawyer’s actions, conduct, and speech, during personal time. It will break down and analyze Professional Rule of Conduct 8.4, Misconduct, breaking down each subsection into informative, practical examples, and present practical illustrations and informative case examples from around the country of how off-the-clock behavior can have on the job consequences.

This engaging program will address, among other things:

• Dishonesty
• Drugs and alcohol, including legal marijuana
• Violence
• Freedom of speech
• Social media use and abuse
• Non-moral turpitude crime
• Rule/policy violations
• General “conduct unbecoming”

Price: Members $10/Non-Members $15

Please mail checks by Friday August 27th, 2021, payable to Santa Barbara Bar Association, 15 W. Carrillo Street Suite 106, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

You may also click the link here to pay via Venmo.

Contact Information/RSVP: Please RSVP by Friday August 27th, 2021, to: Mark Coffin, Esq. [email protected] and Lida Sideris [email protected]

Click the link here to view the flyer.

When: Thursday, June 17, 2021 from 12:00 – 2:00 PM

Where: Zoom

MCLE: 1.5 Hours Elimination of Bias in the Legal Profession and Society – MCLE Credit (pending)

Speaker: Alex Binsfeld (they/them) is a white non-binary queer person who is the Legal Director of the Transgender, Gender-Variant, and Intersex Justice Project (TGI Justice Project). They were born & raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of Law with a social justice concentration. They have engaged in transgender rights advocacy for nearly a decade as a student activist, law clerk and volunteer.

About the Event: The TGI Justice Project works in collaboration with others to forge a culture of resistance and resilience to strengthen us for the fight against human rights abuses, imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty, and societal pressures. The mission of TGIJP is to challenge and end the human rights abuses committed against Black, Black/Brown trans people inside of California prisons, jails, detention centers and beyond. This presentation covers basic skills to branch out into pro-bono support of TGI people and the TGI Representation Network where one can gain expert mentorship and entry-level non-litigation cases.

Price: $10 Members/$15 Non-Members

Please mail checks by Thursday June 10th , 2021 payable to Santa Barbara Bar Association, 15 W. Carrillo Street Suite 106, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

You may also click the link here to pay via Venmo.

Contact Information/RSVP: Please RSVP by Thursday, June 10th , 2021 to: Jeff Chambliss, Esq. [email protected] and Lida Sideris [email protected]

Click the link here to view the flyer.