Author Archive for Karen Gorden
Karen Gorden is a Staff Writer for Attorney Journal.
Renegade Attorney
At 8:00pm on a Tuesday night, Diane Letarte is just leaving her San Diego office and still has more than 200 miles to drive. Although pulling long hours is nothing new for attorneys in any practice area, Letarte has no option but to drive to her clients. As Lifers in California State Prisons, Diane’s clients [...]
An Ace In The Hole
For Colin Walshok, Passion, Discipline, Preparation and Practice Learned On The Course Also Prove To Be a Winning Strategy For Clients. For San Diego born and raised Colin Walshok, the keys to success as an attorney have proven to parallel many of the strategies he first learned on the golf course. In fact, even his [...]
Charisma, Confidence, Competence
Attorney Journal’s November Snapshot DOUGLAS A. GLASS of GLASS MEDIATIONS With offices in the landmark Mister A’s building for more than 20 years, Douglas A. Glass knows a thing or two about the art of putting clients at ease. Make no mistake; the panoramic view Glass Mediation provides-spanning from Mexico to La Jolla- is charismatic [...]
SENSIBLE SOLUTIONS to EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS
Family Law Specialist John H. Tannenberg uses a simple, direct approach to help clients navigate through an increasingly complex family law system. “My firm provides clients with the infor-mation they need to know and understand in order to help them resolve their case in the most cost efficient and practical way,” says John H. Tannenberg, [...]
Immigration INNOVATION
“A lot of law involves fighting over money—whether it’s [a party seeking] compensation, a breach of contract, or even in family matters. Immigration law has little to do with fighting over money. It’s more about keeping families united or helping people get into and stay in the United States so that they can live the [...]
Breaking Ground
NCRC’s Land Use & Environmental Mediation Group, With A Combined 150+ Years Of Expertise, Is California’s First Mediation Group Dedicated To Resolving Environmental, Land Use, Energy And Public Policy Issues. Land use and environmental disputes can be complex and contentious. They pit preservation of the natural environment against new housing for a growing population. Or [...]
Plot Twist
Lee Hejmanowski’s expertise in civil litigation leads to a surprising twist. According to the unrivaled expertise of Wikipedia, “a plot twist is a change in the expected direction of outcome of the plot…” Personally, I’m a huge fan of plot twists, but they don’t come up as often as you might think when I’m interviewing [...]
Power of the Pen
Appellate Attorney Martin Buchanan’s Love of The Written Word Empowers Trial Attorneys, Persuades The Courts and Produces Propitious Outcomes for Clients Most attorneys I speak with can talk circles around me… in their sleep. But when Martin Buchanan, one of California’s most accomplished appellate attorneys, tells me that he is “first and foremost a writer,” [...]
Full Circle
Service, Leadership & Employment Defense Makes The Business World Go Round For Spencer Skeen It was more than 85 years ago when then President Calvin Coolidge said “The chief business of the American People is business.” Spoken decades before Spencer Skeen, partner with Fisher & Phillips, LLP, in San Diego, was even born; those words [...]
Mixing It Up Stacy Fode Discusses the Beauty of Diversity in Litigation and the Brown Law Group
It was the millionaire Malcolm Forbes who famously encapsulated the true power of diversity when he described it as “Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.” For Stacy Fode, Partner with Brown Law Group, this definition couldn’t be any more accurate, nor could the diversity in her professional life yield any greater rewards. From the [...]
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