Presentations and Publications

“Mediation During the Covid Pandemic,” speaker, Los Angeles ABOTA members’ meeting, December 16, 2020.

“Informal Discovery Conferences With Your Judge: Everything You Need to Know to Efficiently Resolve Discovery Disputes” panelist, Los Angeles County Bar Association Litigation Section’s Zoom webinar, June 18, 2020. 

“Online Happy Hour with Women Legal Pioneers” panelist, Los Angeles Daily Journal’s Zoom discussion, May 14, 2020. 

“The ABCs of TBI: Etiologies, Strategies & Mitigation” panelist, at the 59th annual seminar of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel (ASCDC), January 30, 2020, Los Angeles. 

“Civility Matters” panelist, at the 33rd annual Jack Daniels/Los Angeles ABOTA Trial School, July 31, 2019, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. 

“Case Management Conferences in the Los Angeles Superior Court’s Unlimited Jurisdiction Independent Calendar Courts,” author, article in Advocate, July 2019, the Journal of Consumer Attorneys’ Associations for Southern California. 

“Women in Black: Women on the Bench” panelist, at inaugural, second, and third “Women Leadership in Law Forums” sponsored by Daily JournalProfessional Education; May 23, 2017; May 2, 2018; and May 9, 2019, Beverly Hills. 

“Jury Comprehension” segment moderator, Judicial Jury Trial Workshop, State Court Jury Innovations Project, by the Civil Jury Project at NYU School of Law, October 17, 2018, New York University School of Law, New York City, New York. 

Jury Improvement Lunch panelist, sponsored by the Civil Jury Project at NYU School of Law, October 3, 2018, Los Angeles, California. 

“Basic Trial Skills” panelist, “Importance of Final Status Conference Binders” segment, Consumer Attorneys’ Association of Los Angeles (CAALA) annual conference, August 30, 2018, Las Vegas, Nevada. 

“What Jurors Say After a Trial,” author, article in Advocate, July 2018, the Journal of Consumer Attorneys’ Associations for Southern California. The article was republished in Jury Matters, the Newsletter for the Civil Jury Project at NYU School of Law, November 2018, Volume 3, issue 11. 

“Lemon Law Cases: Unofficial Benchguide,” co-author, with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ronald Frank, February 2018, for California Superior Court Judges by the California Judicial Education and Research (CJER) through the California Judicial Council. 

“Case Management Conferences: Get Off on the Right Foot,” panelist, Los Angeles County Bar Association Litigation Section’s Brown Bag lunch program, December 2017, Stanley Mosk Courthouse, Los Angeles. 

“Evidence” panelist, “Mock Evidentiary Arguments” segment, Consumer Attorneys’ Association of Los Angeles (CAALA) annual conference, September 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada. 

Los Angeles Superior Court Jury Trial Seminar and Workshop participant, with the Korean Community Lawyers’ Association, July 2017. 

“Conducting Voir Dire in Civil Trials,” co-author, with Cherisse H.A. Cleofe, Esq., of Kiesel Law LLC; article in the Los Angeles/San Francisco Daily Journal, December 30, 2016 (MCLE credit available). 

“Voir Dire, Bumper Stickers, the Current Election, and Group Think,” panelist, program sponsored by the Los Angeles County Bar Association Trial Practice Inn of Court, October 2016, LA Law Library, Los Angeles. 

“Do’s and Don’ts from the LASC Judges” panelist, Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Litigation Section’s Brown Bag lunch program, February 2016, Stanley Mosk Courthouse, Los Angeles.
 

Los Angeles County Bar Association’s “Dialogues on Freedom,” participant, conducted at various Los Angeles Unified School District high schools (2015 and 2017). 

“The Courts: Administration of Justice,” guest speaker, Political Science 432, “The Politics of (Local) Criminal Justice,” University of Southern California, Department of Political Science, February 22, 2018. 

“Ethical Issues Involving Attorneys and Jurors,” author, article in Advocate, July 2016, the Journal of Consumer Attorneys’ Associations for Southern California. The article was redistributed in the program for the May 24, 2017 CAALA (Consumer Attorneys’ Association of Los Angeles)/ASCDC (Association of Southern California Defense Counsel)/LA-ABOTA Joint Litigation Conference: Promoting Civility & Ethics in the Courtroom; Los Angeles, California. 

“Ethical Issues with Jury Selection,” panelist in presentation satisfying the Legal Ethics component of MCLE Specialty Credits program, Consumer Attorneys’ Association of Los Angeles’ annual conference, September 5, 2015, Las Vegas, Nevada. 

“Checking in to Los Angeles Superior courtrooms,” article in Advocate, July 2015, the Journal of Consumer Attorneys’ Associations for Southern California. 

“Damages,”panelist, Consumer Attorneys’ Association of Los Angeles annual conference, August 29, 2014, Las Vegas, Nevada. 

“Coaching for the New Practitioner: What They Didn’t Teach You in Law School,” panelist, State Bar of California Education Foundation, Litigation Section, October 2010; July 2012; July 2013; July 2014; July 2015; July 2016; and July 2017, Los Angeles, California. 

“Personal Security and Judicial Privacy Protection,” co-presenter, with Judge Scott Gordon, for Superior Court Judges attending the Cow County Judges Institute by the Judicial Council of California/ Administrative Office of the Courts Center for Judiciary Education and Research (CJER); June 2013, Santa Rosa, California.

“A House for Equal Justice, from Design to Completion: The Los Angeles County Courthouse and Architect Paul R. Williams,” author, article in Gavel to Gavel, Los Angeles Superior Court Judicial Magazine, Spring 2013; republished in Advocate, July 2014, the Journal of Consumer Attorneys’ Associations for Southern California; republished in the California Supreme Court Historical Society Newsletter Spring/Summer 2014.

“The Kid,” author, article in Gavel to Gavel, Los Angeles Superior Court Judicial Magazine, Fall 2016.

“Limited Civil Jurisdiction,” presenter, for other Los Angeles Superior Court Judges as part of the Civil Primary Assignment Overview, May 2013, Los Angeles Superior Court Judicial Education Seminars (JES). 

“Judicial Security,” presenter, for other Los Angeles Superior Court Judges at the Los Angeles Superior Court Family Law Division’s annual seminar, February 2011. 

“Life After Justice Corps” panelist, Justice Corps, April 2010. 

Beverly Hills Bar Association Family Law Inns of Court, speaker, 2009.