Loading Events

« All Events

Webinar: Staying Off The State Bar Radar and What To Do If You Get A State Bar Letter

February 25 @ 12:00 pm 1:00 pm

1 Participatory MCLE Credits; 1 Legal Ethics Hour

Join former senior State Bar trial counsel and current State Bar defense attorney Ashod Mooradian in a unique, informative and perennially necessary presentation about the State Bar discipline system. You will learn about the mission and structure of the State Bar discipline system, the intake process for complaints against attorneys, how and why the State Bar’s prosecution division, the Office of Chief Trial Counsel, will choose to investigate a complaint, how to best respond to complaints and what happens if your complaint moves forward and is publicly filed as a Notice of Disciplinary Charges in the State Bar Court of California. Finally, and most importantly, you will learn practical and effective strategies to help you avoid not only becoming publicly disciplined, but from even getting a client complaint or disciplinary investigation in the first place!

Speakers: Ashod Mooradian

Non-Member Price
$75

Member Price
$55


After nearly a decade as a senior prosecutor with the State Bar of California, Ashod Mooradian founded a boutique practice exclusively focused on legal ethics, professional responsibility compliance, and State Bar matter representation in disciplinary, regulatory or admission- related cases. Ashod’s background as an ethics prosecutor gives him a unique and pragmatic perspective in the analysis of legal ethics issues and when representing clients in State Bar investigations. Currently, Ashod is a member of the standing ethics committees for the Los Angeles County Bar and the California Lawyers Association. 

Also, he is an active member of the Association of Disciplinary Defense Counsel, the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers and the American Bar Association’s Center for Professional Responsibility (CPR). In 2019, Ashod was awarded CPR’s Jeanne P. Gray Diversity Scholarship and worked on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives for the legal profession nationwide. In August 2020, Ashod launched www.StateBarHelp.com to provide guidance and resources for California attorneys who have any type legal ethics or compliance issue pending before the State Bar of California. Ashod’s mission is to help attorneys practically and strategically incorporate considerations of ethics and professionalism into their daily practice and not just when a problem or crisis arises.

We are committed to accessibility! Virtual events are equipped with closed captioning. To request an in-person accommodation, send us a note at accessibility@calawyers.org or contact us at 916-516-1760 for assistance.