Wednesday, November 13, at noon, tune in for an important discussion featuring Second Appellate District Administrative Presiding Justice Elwood Lui, Third Appellate District Associate Justice Shama Hakim Mesiwala, and seasoned appellate practitioners regarding the dire need for counsel to represent indigent parties in criminal, delinquency, dependency, and civil commitment cases on appeal.

This webinar will review how you can incorporate this work into your practice and the benefits you will receive from performing this work. The benefits include using your work as appointed counsel to satisfy the briefing and oral argument requirements for becoming an appellate specialist.

 “In the last fiscal year (2024), there were approximately 10,000 indigent appeals statewide, of which 3,000 were dependency cases. This is the highest number of indigent appeals ever,” states attorney and LACBA President Sarvenaz Bahar, who also points out that, at the same time, the number of panel attorneys handling these cases is at its lowest in decades.  

“You can help alleviate the constitutional crisis by becoming a panel attorney and handling cases full- or part-time.”

Bahar describes her own personal experience as a panel attorney and outlines the benefits of joining the panel in the November issue of Los Angeles Lawyer magazine, which is available on November 7, 2024.  

This How to Become an Appointed Panel Attorney is sponsored by the California Appellate Project-Los Angeles (CAP-LA) and the Central California Appellate Program (CCAP).

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