PRSRT STD Riverside US POSTAGE County LAWYER PAID PERMIT #1054 Riverside County Bar Association RIVERSIDE, CA 4129 Main St., Ste. 100, Riverside, CA 92501 RCBA 951-682-1015 LRS 951-682-7520 July/August 2020 • Volume 70 Number 7 MAGAZINE www.riversidecountybar.com [email protected] In This Issue My Journey Through the Glass Ceiling The 100th Anniversary of Women’s Right to Vote Honorable Irma Poole Asberry Recipient of the 2019 Saint Thomas More Award An Undergraduate Student’s Perspective on the Obstacles Faced by Females in the Legal Profession 2020: The Six Months That Have Opened Eyes and Raised Voices to Injustice International Sex Trafficking and Money Laundering Rings in Southern California The Official Publication of the Riverside County Bar Association EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO ADVANCE YOUR PRACTICE. Born to protect. As lawyers insuring lawyers, our focus is solely on protecting small and solo California law firms. Strength is in your nature. 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Jacqueline Carey-Wilson Copy Editors ..................... Yoginee Braslaw & Juanita Mantz Columns: Design and Production ........................ PIP Printing Riverside Cover Design ........................... Everett Collection-Shutterstock/ 3 ................................ President’s Message by Jack Clarke, Jr. PIP Printing Riverside Officers of the Bar Association 6 ........ Barristers President’s Message by Paul Leonidas Lin President President-Elect Jack B. Clarke, Jr. Sophia H. Choi (951) 686-1450 (951) 955-6300 [email protected] [email protected] COVER STORIES: Vice President Chief Financial Officer Neil D. Okazaki Lori Myers 8 .................................... My Journey Through the Glass Ceiling (951) 826-5567 (949) 300-3596 [email protected] [email protected] by Virginia M. Blumenthal Secretary Past President 10 ................. The 100th Anniversary of Women’s Right to Vote Kelly Moran Jeff Van Wagenen (951) 955-6300 (951) 529-4092 by Maya Sophia Braslaw [email protected] [email protected] 12 .............................................. Honorable Irma Poole Asberry Directors-at-Large Recipient of the 2019 Saint Thomas More Award Erica M. Alfaro Megan G. Demshki (951) 686-8313 (951) 434-1424 by Jacqueline Carey-Wilson [email protected] [email protected] Mark A. Easter Chris A. Johnson 14 .....An Undergraduate Student’s Perspective on the Obstacles (951) 686-1450 (951) 695-8700 [email protected] [email protected] Faced by Females in the Legal Profession by Sarah Sons Sanchez Executive Director Charlene Nelson (951) 682-1015 16 .....................2020: The Six Months That Have Opened Eyes [email protected] and Raised Voices to Injustice Officers of the Barristers Association by Jessica Jerving 18 ............................Judicial Profile: Honorable Samah Shouka President Treasurer by Betty Fracisco Paul Lin David Rivera (951) 888-1398 Members-at-Large 21 .......................... Opposing Counsel: Lilia Centeno-Wilkerson [email protected] Alejandro Barraza President-Elect Ankit Bhakta by L. Alexandra Fong Goushia Farook Patricia Mejia Stuart Smith 23 ...International Sex Trafficking and Money Laundering Rings Secretary Lauren Vogt Michael Ortiz Past President in Southern California Megan G. Demshki by Opal Singleton Riverside County Bar Association 4129 Main Street, Suite 100 Riverside, California 92501 Telephone Facsimile Departments: 951-682-1015 951-682-0106 Internet E-mail Calendar .................. 2 Membership .............. 22 www.riversidecountybar.com [email protected] Classified Ads ............. 24 Riverside Lawyer, July/August 2020 1 MISSION STATEMENT CALENDAR Established in 1894 August The Riverside County Bar Association, established in 1894 to foster 3 Zoom Noon social inter ac tion between the bench and bar, is a professional or ga ni- Civil Litigation Roundtable with Judge Craig zation that provides con tinu ing education and offers an arena to resolve Riemer various prob lems that face the justice system and attorneys prac tic ing in MCLE 11 Zoom Riverside County. Noon – 1:15 p.m. Civil Litigation Section Speakers: Richard Cohn and Atticus RCBA Mission Statement Wegman of Aitken Aitken Cohn The mission of the Riverside County Bar Association is: Topic: “Cross Examination of Experts— Setting Them Up and Knocking Them Down” To serve our members, our communities, and our legal system. MCLE SAVE THE DATE Membership Benefits Involvement in a variety of legal entities: Lawyer Referral Service September 26 RCBA Annual Installation of Officers (LRS), Riverside Legal Aid, Fee Ar bi tra tion, Client Re la tions, Dis pute Ceremony Res o lu tion Ser vice (DRS), Barristers, Leo A. Deegan Inn of Court, Mock 2 p.m. Please watch your mail for invitations. Trial, State Bar Confer ence of Dele gates, Bridg ing the Gap, and the RCBA Please see the calendar on the RCBA website - Riverside Superior Court New Attorney Academy. (riversidecountybar.com) for information on Membership meetings monthly (except July and August) with key note how to access the Zoom meetings. EVENTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. speak ers, and par tic i pa tion in the many committees and sections. For the latest calendar information please visit the RCBA’s website at riversidecounty- Eleven issues of Riverside Lawyer published each year to update you bar.com. on State Bar matters, ABA issues, local court rules, open forum for com- mu ni ca tion, and timely busi ness matters. Social gatherings throughout the year: Installation of RCBA and Bar risters Of fic ers din ner, Law Day ac tiv i ties, Good Citizenship Award RCBA Board of ceremony for River side County high schools, and other special activities, Directors Continuing Legal Education brown bag lunches and section work shops. (September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2021) RCBA is a cer ti fied provider for MCLE programs. President Sophia Choi President-Elect Neil Okazaki The Riverside Lawyer is published 11 times per year by the Riverside County Vice President Lori Myers Bar Association (RCBA) and is distributed to RCBA members, Riverside CFO Kelly Moran County judges and administrative officers of the court, community leaders and others interested in the advancement of law and justice. Advertising and Secretary Mark Easter an nounce ments are due by the 6th day of the month preceding publications Directors-at-Large: (e.g., October 6 for the November issue). Articles are due no later than 45 Aaron Chandler days preceding publi ca tion. All articles are subject to editing. RCBA members receive a subscription au to mat i cal ly. Annual sub scrip tions are $30.00 and Megan Demshki single copies are $3.50. Chris Johnson Submission of articles and photographs to Riverside Lawyer will be deemed Elisabeth Lord to be authorization and license by the author to publish the material in the Immediate Past President Riverside Lawyer. The material printed in the Riverside Lawyer does not necessarily reflect Jack Clarke, Jr. the opin ions of the RCBA, the editorial staff, the Publication Committee, or Barristers President other columnists. Legal issues are not discussed for the purpose of answering Goushia Farook spe cif ic questions. Independent research of all issues is strongly encouraged. 2 Riverside Lawyer, July/August 2020 being in broad daylight, before multiple witnesses, while the witnesses were recording the act and pleading with the officer to stop what he was doing. The man who was killed was a black man. That same week, I saw a video of a Harvard educated black man sim- ply ask a Caucasian woman to leash her dog in a park. Within seconds, the woman first threatened and then proceeded to call the police and tell the 911 operator that an African American man was threatening her life and that she needed the immediate help of the police. How could she have thought so quickly to try and weaponize the police force against a man of color who was speaking in a civil tone to her? Those incidents, along with the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and Rayshard Brooks, in such a short time frame, were almost more that I could withstand. by Jack Clarke, Jr. How could this happen? Three of the incidents concerned mem- bers of our community, who like us, swore to support and uphold the My Final Thoughts During a Time of Constitution. Then it occurred to me that perhaps, we have reached a Cataclysmic Change in Our Country, point in our society where, performing a ritual such as taking an oath to Which I Hope Is Just The Beginning or, support the Constitution is really just an empty act mumbled by would- Put Another Way, be “peace”