JULY  2010

CADC 2011 ANNUAL CONFERENCE/SEMINAR SET FOR  MARCH 18 AND 19
IN GLENDALE

Mark your calendars!  CADC’s next Annual Seminar and Conference will be held on March 18 and 19, 2011, at the Glendale
Hilton.  Needless to say, further details will be forthcoming.

 

END OF FISCAL YEAR ALERT!

As we are going to press, it appears certain that the California Legislature will miss its constitutional deadline of June 30 for passing the state budget for the new fiscal year, which begins July 1.

California’s fiscal year ends on June 30.  If the Legislature and Governor do not enact a new budget before then, the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) will essentially be unable to issue compensation checks until the new budget is passed.  This year it is extremely likely that the State’s budget problems and the weak economy will cause a significant delay in the Legislature’s working out the details of the 2010-2011 budget.  In past years the new budget has sometimes been delayed by a month or more due to political gridlock.

CADC members are advised to send in their outstanding compensation claims as soon as possible.  Past history would indicate that as long as 2009-2010 appointed counsel budget funds hold out, the State may continue to pay for interim claims related to AOBs filed no later than June 30 and final claims for cases in which opinions were issued on or before June 30.

 GREENPATH SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS, LLC - ATTYXPRESS ELECTRONIC BRIEF DELIVERY SERVICE IN PILOT OPERATION WITH THE SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

 by Marilyn Hall,
 Greenpath Chief Communications Officer

GreenPath Announces iPAD Giveaway.

We believe you will find our Electronic Brief Delivery Service a great convenience and want to encourage you to register and give it a try.

It's available from your desktop, costs no more than you currently spend (is fully reimbursable using standard e-Claim guidelines) and puts you on the fast track to being fluent with electronic documents.
 
Enter to win a brand new iPAD from GreenPath Software Solutions, LLC.  Forget about paper! Read your briefs electronically.

Register on AttyXpress between July 1 and August 31 to be automatically entered in our September 1 drawing for an Apple iPad ($499 value).

Every brief you file during the same time period using AttyXpress will get your name entered into the drawing again!

Once for registering and once for every brief you distribute using AttyXpress - the Electronic Brief Delivery Service.

Note: We are still only accepting briefs filed in the Second District.

If you are one of our loyal existing customers you are already entered to win!

Join the new age.  Be more APPEALing.  Try AttyXpress.
Follow the link below to our website and our easy self-registration process.

http://www.greenpathsoftware.com/greenpathsoftware.com/Home.html
 
If you need more information about using AttyXpress - watch the demo on our website .  .  .  .  GreenPath Software Solutions, LLC, installed a new version of the AttyXpress Electronic Brief Delivery Service on June 20 which offers you an alternative if you find yourself running late. Should you miss our 4 PM daily cutoff time for filing your brief, you can still upload your brief today and if you submit it to us before 10 AM on the next business day we will deliver it to the the USPS for Express mail delivery to the Court, by noon on the next business day.  It will arrive the same day it would have arrived had you made the 4 PM cutoff today.

You will notice the toggle switch on the AttyXpress website that allows you to alternate between Priority Mail and Express Mail (for your Court package only). You can use the Preview Invoice button to compare the cost of both alternatives and decide what is best for your situation.

We hope this and the continuing improvements we are making to the service encourage you to consider AttyXpress your "go to" service for Appellate Brief Delivery!

Please let us know how the Service is working for you and what enhancements would make it even more helpful.

Service@GreenPathSoftware.com

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CADC'S MCLE LIBRARY

CADC's MCLE Library is now up and running! Our CADC Web site now has MCLE self-study articles available with topics including an introduction to dependency law, a guide to reading and summarizing criminal appellate records, and a checklist for augmentation and rule 8.340 requests – with more articles to come.  There is a $20 charge for each MCLE certified hour.  (You can read the articles for free.)  To access: go to our home pagewww.cadc.net and then click on MCLE Library.
 

CADC SEEKS MEMBER ASSISTANCE IN KEEPING OUR BRIEF BANK UP TO DATE

CADC members are asked to contribute their recent briefs to CADC's brief bank. Recent criminal law briefs should be attached to an e-mail and sent to Conrad Petermann at firm@cpetermann.com. Recent dependency briefs should be sent as an e-mail attachment to Valerie Sopher at vsopher@sbcglobal.net.

The brief bank may be accessed in the "Members Only" section of CADC's Web site at www.cadc.net. Keeping our brief bank constantly updated with new and better arguments makes the CADC brief bank a more valuable tool for all of our members.

Also, in order to improve the quality and effectiveness of the brief bank, CADC is asking its members' help in culling duplicative arguments or arguments which have become stale in light of subsequent case law developments.

For example, any brief bank argument which attacks the ex post facto application of a statute of limitation without discussing Stogner v. California (2003) 123 S.Ct. 2446, or any cruel and unusual punishment attack upon a Three Strikes sentence which fails to mention Ewing v. California (2003) 123 S.Ct. 1179, is no longer viable. Another problem is with duplicative arguments -- e.g., obviously, we do not need multiple copies of standard attacks on CALJIC Nos. 1.23.1, 2.50.1, or 2.90. And occasionally a member may come across a brief bank argument containing a clearly flawed legal analysis. 

If you run across any brief bank argument which appears to suffer from such infirmity, please bring it to the attention of M.K. Cecil, our brief bank clerk. Send an e-mail to M.K. Cecil using the link located on the brief bank screen. Include the title of the argument and a description of the problem.

SUSTAINING MEMBER BENEFIT

One of the benefits of becoming a CADC sustaining member is that this includes admission to CADC's annual seminar at no additional cost. In order to make this benefit more flexible and useful, the CADC Board has voted to amend this benefit to provide that the annual CADC statewide seminar may be attended for free either by the CADC sustaining member or by a person designated by the sustaining CADC member to attend the seminar in his or her stead.

ARE YOU TREATING CADC MESSAGES LIKE SPAM?

We have learned that some CADC members have not been receiving our messages because their spam filters have blocked CADC e-mail announcements. Problems have come up as to some members who use popular Internet services such as AOL, PacBell, Adelphia and Verizon. CADC sends out notices from the following addresses: renewals@mail.cadc.net,  raysilverio@gmail.com, webmaster@cadc.net  and walt@wfkplaw.com.  Messages from these sources should be cherished and read. If you have not been receiving CADC messages from these sources please check and set your spam controls to unblock messages from these e-mail addresses.

CADC WEB SITE INFO

Members should remember that our Web site is the place to indicate changes to your e-mail address and to check on e-mail address changes for fellow members. To make changes to your contact information: Log in to the Member Area, click on My Profile, enter your User Name and Password. At that point you will be able to make any desired changes to your contact information. When you have finished, click Update to save your changes. To obtain the contact information of other members: from the Members area of the Web site, click on Members.

Linda Walker is the person to contact regarding questions and problems about your membership and dues. Also, CADC members who have problems logging on to our Web site should contact our technology guru, Linda. If your problem has to do with the CADC Web site not realizing that you have paid your current membership dues, your inquiry to Linda Walker should include whether you paid by check or credit card and the approximate date of the transaction. Linda can be reached at renewals@mail.cadc.net  or (310) 968-2221.

CADC LISTSERVES

CADC now has six listserves available to our members: Chat, Practice, Criminal Law, Dependency Law, Capital Counsel and New Attorneys. For more information or to sign up for any of CADC's listserves, go to the listserve area of our Web site www.cadc.net.

CADC-SPONSORED MALPRACTICE POLICY

In connection with Complete Equity Markets (CEM), CADC is offering its members a special deal on a custom-tailored malpractice insurance policy.  This policy is relatively inexpensive and is geared toward CADC members who handle some privately-retained cases in addition to their court-appointed appeals. 
     
For a copy of the CADC malpractice insurance policy and an application, call Complete Equity Markets and ask CEM to mail you copies of these materials.  Telephone: 1-800-323-6234.  You can look over the policy and, if you want to obtain coverage, the application takes less than a hour to fill out.  You will get a premium quote within a couple of weeks after submitting  your application.  The premium varies with the percentage of your income derived from non-project appointed cases. 

You can obtain this information – the policy application and a price quote – by going to the Complete Equity Markets Web site at www.cemins.com and clicking on the link to Public Defenders/Assigned Counsel Limited Practice Coverage.  You can submit your application or send CEM an e-mail at that site, with any questions you may have.

Monthly payments and financing for the payment of annual premiums is now available at very low rates. Contact Complete Equity Markets for more information.  If you have any questions regarding this insurance policy contact CADC members Gordon Brownell at gsbrownell@aol.com or (707) 942-4565, or Dave Lampkin at dplampkin@aol.com or (805) 389-7769.

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 BAY AREA

CENTRAL COAST CHAPTER

DAVIS APPELLATE DEPENDENCY ATTORNEYS

KLAMATH FALLS CHAPTER

LA SOUTH BAY CHAPTER

LOS ANGELES APPELLATE LAWYERS

MARIN CHAPTER

NEVADA-PLACER COUNTY CHAPTER

NEW MEXICO CHAPTER

PASADENA CHAPTER

REDWOOD EMPIRE APPELLATE LAWYERS [REAL]

SACRAMENTO/DAVIS CHAPTER

For information contact Curt Zimansky at zimansky@cal.net or (530) 220-3713.

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