PARTNER

Ms. Ewins emphasizes the defense of lawyers in professional liability litigation, trials, and appeals. For over 16 years, she has defended numerous lawyers and local, regional, and national law firms in actions throughout California for legal malpractice, malicious prosecution, defamation, disciplinary proceedings, and related matters in a broad range of substantive areas. She also has an active practice representing judges in proceedings before the California Commission On Judicial Performance.

Ms. Ewins was named a "Northern California Super Lawyer" in Professional Liability Defense, by Law & Politics Magazine in 2006 and 2007. 

Ms. Ewins also defends law firms and employers in employment and sexual harassment actions and provides counsel regarding risk management and loss prevention.

Program Panelist

"Avoiding Attorney Liability To Non-Clients In The Transactional, Litigation and Estate Planning Settings" presented for Santa Clara County Bar Association January 2002

"High Tech Risks/Low Tech Skills: We Are All Technology Lawyers Now" presented at ABA Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 2001

"When Malpractice In Handling A Settlement Is Alleged" presented at ABA National Legal Malpractice Conference, Asheville, North Carolina, September 1998 

"Sexual Harassment and Wrongful Termination Claims -- Are They Covered?" Association of Professional Insurance Women, San Francisco, California, October 1995 and New York, New York, October 1996.

Program Chair 

"Same Sex, Same Rights?", presented at the ABA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California in August 2007

"Assault On the Attorney-Client Privilege: What Every Lawyer Needs to Know," presented at the ABA Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 2005 and at the ABA National Legal Malpractice Conference, Chicago, Illinois, September 2006

"Bias In the Courtroom," presented at the ABA Section of Litigation Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California, April 2006

"The Blame Game: Attorneys and Accountants In the Crosshairs," presented at the ABA Section of Litigation Annual Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, April 2004 and at the ABA National Legal Malpractice Conference, San Francisco, California, September 2004

"Trying the Case Within A Case" presented at the ABA National Legal Malpractice Conference, Miami Florida, April 2004

"Diversity in the Courtroom" presented at the ABA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, August 2003

"Negotiating for Litigators," presented at the ABA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, August 2003.

"Trial By Hurry: Making Every Minute Count" presented at the ABA Section of Litigation Annual Conference, Houston, Texas, April 2003


PUBLICATIONS 

"Profile of Legal Malpractice Claims 2000-2003," American Bar Association Standing Committee On Lawyers' Professional Liability, (co-editor)

"Loss Prevention By The Numbers," Professional Liability Litigation Alert, Section of Litigation, American Bar Association, Spring 2003

"Chipping Away at the Attorney-Client Privilege and the Attorney Work Product Doctrine," Professional Liability Litigation Alert, Section of Litigation, American Bar Association, Winter 2003

"A Perspective on the Legal Malpractice Trial-Within-A-Trial," American Bar Association Standing Committee On Lawyers' Professional Liability, National Legal Malpractice Conference, Fall 1998

Co-Author of "Steering A Safer Path: Lawyers' Risk Management Guide and Tool Kit," 1999.

"Bolstering The Immunity Defense," LPL Advisory, American Bar Association Standing Committee On Lawyers' Professional Liability, Spring 1998

PERSONAL

Born: Santa Monica, California