Solo and Small Firm
The Practitioner Summer 2020, Volume 26, Issue 3
Content
- Business Interruption Cases: Fighting For Insurance Coverage When It's Not Business As Usual
- Covid-19: the Road to Reopening for Businesses
- Editorial Committee
- Employment E-Discovery - It's Time to Learn It Plain and Simple!
- Executive Committee of the Solo and Small Firm Law Section 2019-2020
- How to Hire Your First Employee
- Law Firm Growth During an Uncertain Legal Climate, Part I: How to Ethically Use of Counsel Relationships
- Letter From the Chair
- Letter From the Editor-In-Chief
- Table of Contents
- the Practitioner For Solo & Small Firms
- MCLE Article: the Buck Stops Here
MCLE Article: The Buck Stops Here
By Erin Joyce
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.
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"The buck stops here."1