Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2020, Volume 33, Number 3
Content
- Black Votes Matter
- Editor's Foreword At a Crossroads for a Juster System
- From the Section Chair
- Masthead
- My Ancestors' Wildest Dreams
- Obtaining Information from Law Enforcement Personnel Files: a Defense Attorney's Perspective
- Preventing Discrimination in Jury Selection
- Supreme Court of California Statement on Equality
- Sweet Taste of Liberty: a True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
- Table of Contents
- The California Supreme Court, 2019-2020: Continuing Evolution of a Diverse Court
- The Greatest of the Greatest Generation
- The Guy Miles Case - Race and a Wrongful Conviction
- The Impact of Innocence: a Lawyer's Perspective
- This Land. Your Land. My Land.
- Words Matter. Perhaps Especially Ours as Lawyers.
Words Matter. Perhaps Especially Ours as Lawyers.
By Rupa G. Singh
Rupa G. Singh is a certified appellate specialist who handles complex civil appeals and critical motions in state and federal court at Niddrie Addams Fuller Singh LLP, San Diego’s only appellate boutique. She is founding president of the San Diego Appellate Inn of Court, former chair of the San Diego County Bar’s Appellate Practice Section, and a self-proclaimed word enthusiast.
Words matter, and the right words matter most of all. In the end, they’re all that remain of us. — John Birmingham
My grandfather was a well-respected, reasonably successful lawyer in post-colonial India. Lawyers also seem disproportionately likely to lead nation-states, movements, and revolutions, and to transition seamlessly into politics and government. But I didn’t become a lawyer to pay homage to family tradition. Nor did I aspire to lead a movement or rise through the ranks in the public sector.