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VL June2021.Indd JUNE 2021 • $5 A Publication of the San Fernando Valley Bar Association COVID-19 Vaccines in the Workplace: Mandate or Not California Judicial Council: What It Is, How It Works www.sfvba.org www.ketkcpa.com 2 Valley Lawyer ■ JUNE 2021 www.sfvba.org www.sfvba.org JUNE 2021 ■ Valley Lawyer 3 www.arxisfi nancial.com www.matloffcompany.com Life Insurance Term, Universal Life, Survivorship, Estate Planning, Key-Person Disability Insurance Insure your most important asset—"Your ability to earn income" Insures you in your own occupation Benefits keep up with inflation Long Term Care Insurance Several quality carriers for individuals and firms Health Insurance All major insurance companies for individuals & firms An Insurance and Financial Services Company Phone: (800) 468-4467 E-mail: [email protected] Elliot Matloff 4 Valley Lawyer ■ JUNE 2021 www.sfvba.org CONTENTS JUNE 2021 VALLEY AWYER A Publication of the San Fernando Valley Bar Association 12 20 26 32 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 12 COVID-19 Vaccines in the Workplace: 7 President’s Message Mandate or Not | BY KARINE KARADJIAN MCLE TEST NO. 152 ON PAGE 19. 9 Editor’s Desk 10 Event Calendar 20 California Judicial Council: What It Is, How It Works | BY MICHAEL D. WHITE 11 SFVBA Nomination Committee 31 Bar Notes 26 The “Fatty” Arbuckle Case: Hollywood’s First Celebrity Trial | BY MARK J. PHILLIPS AND 37 Retrospective ARYN Z. PHILLIPS 41 Executive Director’s Desk and A Survival Tool: Supplemental Cyber Attorney Referral Service 32 Security Insurance | BY DAVID MERCY 43 Valley Community Legal Foundation 36 UWLA Hosts Moot Court 45 Neighborhood Legal Services of Competition Via Zoom | BY MICHAEL D. WHITE Los Angeles County 38 Flat Fees: Follow the Rules, No Problem | BY ERIN JOYCE 46 Classifieds www.sfvba.org JUNE 2021 ■ Valley Lawyer 5 SAN FERNANDO VALLEY BAR ASSOCIATION 20750 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 140 Woodland Hills, CA 91364 Phone (818) 227-0490 Fax (818) 227-0499 Visit for www.sfvba.org www.sfvba.org EDITOR the Valley Lawyer Media Kit Michael D. White GRAPHIC DESIGNER Marina Senderov OFFICERS President David G. Jones President-Elect Christopher P. Warne Secretary Matthew A. 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If elected, front of you. each of them will help shape the future Candidates and Trustees also of our Valley’s legal community. have the opportunity to make valuable RECENT VICTORIES: With as busy and stressful as connections with many of the most $3 Million Fraud Case: Dismissed, lawyer’s lives are, it takes a special infl uential and talented lawyers in our Government Misconduct (Downtown, LA) person to step forward to run for community. Murder: Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity, Jury (Van Nuys) election and volunteer their time to our While there exists a debate Medical Fraud Case: Dismissed, Preliminary nearly 100-year-old Bar. among younger lawyers about the Hearing (Ventura) Those who offer to become involved viability and utility of groups such Domestic Violence: Not Guilty, Jury Finding of Factual Innocence (San Fernando) are typically selfl ess folk who want as the SFVBA, they know and $50 Million Mortgage Fraud: Dismissed, to make a difference and advance understand that their connections to Trial Court (Downtown, LA) noteworthy goals for the Bar and their the community and fellow lawyers are DUI Case, Client Probation: Dismissed fellow attorneys. critical in their future success. Search and Seizure (Long Beach) Numerous Sex Offense Accusations: As Thomas Jefferson once said, It is really not a close call to Dismissed before Court (LA County) “We do not have government by the join and participate in the Bar. 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