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KATHLEEN M. EWINS
PARTNER
Ms. Ewins emphasizes the defense
of lawyers in professional liability litigation, trials, and
appeals. For over 18 years, she has defended lawyers
and local, regional, and national law firms in actions
throughout California for legal malpractice, malicious
prosecution, defamation, disciplinary proceedings, and related
matters. 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 2006-2009 and One of the Best
Lawyers in America (2010 edition) practicing in the Legal
Malpractice Specialty.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
Chair: Legal Malpractice Section of the Bar
Association of San Francisco, California
Co-Chair: Electronic Communications Policy Committee,
Section of Litigation, American Bar Association (2006-2009);
Professional Liability Litigation Committee, Section of
Litigation, American Bar Association (2002-2006); Trial By Jury:
A Program Focused On Jury Thinking, American Bar Association,
Seattle, Washington, September 2005
Member: Standing Committee on Lawyers'
Professional Liability, American Bar Association (2003-2006),
Liaison (2006-2007)
Chair: National Legal Malpractice Conference,
American Bar Association, San Francisco, California, September
2004
Editor: Professional Liability Litigation
Alert newsletter and electronic eAlert bulletin,
Section of Litigation, American Bar Association (2002-2006);
electronic eAdvisory, bulletin, Standing Committee on
Lawyers' Professional Liability, American Bar Association (2003-2006)
"The At Risk Attorney: Strategies to
Help Colleagues with Substance Abuse and/or Other Impairment;
Protect Clients; and Manage Risk", presented for the Bar
Association of San Francisco, January 2009
"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
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
"Northern California Super
Lawyer" in Professional Liability Defense, Law &
Politics Magazine, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
University of San Diego School of Law, San
Diego, California, J.D. 1991
University of California, Davis, California, B.A., International
Relations/Economics, 1984
Born: Santa Monica, California
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