Description: The South Bay Bar Association and Women Lawyers of Long Beach are excited to announce the relaunch of their acclaimed "Her Honor Series". Throughout the series we will be interviewing judicial officers about their path to the bench and the lessons they learned along the way. Each episode will focus on one judicial officer. Throughout the interview we will discuss her path to the bench, words of advice for those seeking to join the bench, insights into how the landscape has evolved for women in the profession, and what she would like to see more of from the bar...

California courts publish around 500 new civil decisions every year, and many of them make significant changes to existing law. In this one-hour seminar Monty McIntyre and Mike Roberts will discuss many important case civil case decisions published in 2025 by the California Supreme Court and the Courts of Appeal.

ADR In Practice. Real Tools for Real Cases.
Join us for two full days of engaging MCLE Programming! Featuring ADR Services, Inc. speakers, this immersive event is designed to strengthen your everyday practice. You’ll leave each program with concrete practice tips, strategic takeaways, and materials designed for immediate use. Register for the event, and you will be able to build a custom agenda to attend as many courses as you need!
All credits will be issued before the 2026 MCLE reporting deadline of March 30, 2026.

ADR In Practice. Real Tools for Real Cases.
Join us for two full days of engaging MCLE Programming! Featuring ADR Services, Inc. speakers, this immersive event is designed to strengthen your everyday practice. You’ll leave each program with concrete practice tips, strategic takeaways, and materials designed for immediate use. Register for the event, and you will be able to build a custom agenda to attend as many courses as you need!
All credits will be issued before the 2026 MCLE reporting deadline of March 30, 2026.

Presented at the California Eminent Domain Annual Conference: From Project Inception to Acquisition: Collaborative Solutions.

 Join us for an engaging, interactive panel with Southern California mediation masters on new ABA Ethics Opinion 518.  The panel will discuss mediation ethics and provide practical tips and techniques from decades of real-world experience mediating high stakes litigated cases.

Co-Sponsored by the Women in Trial Travel Summit, What I Wish the Other Side Knew pulls back the curtain on what really matters to each participant in mediation.

In this candid, practitioner-driven program, seasoned panelists include plaintiff’s attorney Michelle West, defense attorney Wilma Gray, and mediator Debra Bogaards (who has a background representing both sides). The panel will share the insights they rarely get to say out loud—what they need, what they worry about, and what helps (or hurts) the path to resolution.

The panel explores critical moments before and during mediation, including effective briefing and information exchange, navigating layered insurance coverage and multiple parties, addressing ability-to-pay issues and bankruptcy realities, and preparing clients for the emotional and strategic “day in court” experience. The discussion concludes with practical strategies for crafting creative, sometimes non-monetary settlement terms that move cases forward when money alone isn’t enough.

Designed for attorneys on both sides of the aisle, this program offers practical perspective-shifting insights that can lead to more productive mediations—and better outcomes for clients.

Save the date for the Inaugural Public Law Conference, a new forum designed to explore the changing landscape of public law and public-sector governance. This event brings together practitioners, policymakers, and public servants for essential training, timely discussions, and practical insights that support effective government at every level.

The program will feature engaging sessions on Public Records and Public Meetings, Environmental Public Law, Labor Public Law, and a Public Law 101 overview for those seeking foundational knowledge. Each session is crafted to provide clear, relevant guidance for both experienced professionals and newcomers to the field.

Alongside the formal presentations, the conference offers space for meaningful dialogue, shared learning, and connection among colleagues committed to strengthening public service. We appreciate your interest and participation as we launch this important initiative and thank you for being part of the first step toward what we hope becomes a long-standing tradition of collaboration and professional growth in public law.

Mediation of affirmative tenant claims are never just two-sided disputes — they are multi-layered negotiations shaped by local eviction control ordinances, insurance coverage issues, and the value of the tenancy.

Join Steve Abern (Mediator/Panel Counsel), Jacqueline Ravenscroft (Plaintiff’s Counsel), and Jeff Woo (Personal Counsel) for a candid, practical discussion of who’s really in the room — and how their roles intersect before and during mediation.

This program moves beyond generic mediation advice to focus on the players and their interplay: panel counsel, personal counsel, claims representatives, and plaintiff’s counsel. Through real-world habitability and wrongful eviction case examples, the panel will explore preparation and case evaluation, insurance coverage issues, attorney’s fees, statutory penalties, potential tenancy buyouts, and the optics that influence carrier decision-making.

Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of how each role evaluates risk, communicates with carriers, navigates authority, and shifts strategy at mediation — and how to work more effectively across the aisle to reach resolution.

In this one-hour seminar Monty McIntyre, Plaintiff's counsel Will Small, and Defense counsel Micaela Banach will discuss many important case employment case decisions published in 2025 by the California Supreme Court and the Courts of Appeal.

New for 2026, we are excited to host Western Alliance Bank's Class Action Law Forum^TM Mass Torts Summit at the Pendry San Diego in collaboration with the University of San Diego Law. The summit directly benefits the Western Alliance Bank Scholarship Fund, supporting a USD Law School student in financial need.

Join us for a two day summit focused on the latest insights and strategies in Mass Torts. Attendees will hear insights and take part in discussions on the most important developments and issues surrounding mass torts. Gain actionable strategies, understand emerging trends, and learn how these developments impact businesses, law firms and clients. Our panelists include sitting federal judges and top defense and plaintiffs' attorneys.

Construction litigation in California has reached a critical crossroads where complex multi-party disputes often devolve into aimless, expensive "billing events" rather than structured paths to resolution. This marquee panel brings together an elite class of neutrals and practitioners from JAMS, AAA, and ADR Services to dismantle these inefficiencies and provide a definitive roadmap to the "End Game." Moving far beyond "Mediation 101," this session explores the tactical preparation, risk transfer nuances, and the 2026 digital divide of Zoom versus in-person negotiations required to break insurance logjams. Attendees will learn to shift their mindset from merely attending a session to aggressively driving a resolution through diligent investigation and sophisticated deal-structuring, replacing procedural "drift" with a disciplined, high-velocity approach to settlement.