Local attorneys Thomas G. Foley, Jr., Cassandra T. Glanville, and Richard Lloyd will co-chair the Santa Barbara County Bar Association’s annual Bench and Bar Conference Jan. 27.
The 2024 Bench and Bar Conference will be held in person and via Zoom at The Colleges of Law Santa Barbara Campus, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. The event brings together attorneys, judges and other professionals from Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties.
Keynote speaker at the 2024 conference will be former California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye (ret.). Attendees will hear presentations on legal and social issues relevant to Santa Barbara’s legal community, including ethics, competence, employment law, wellness, and landlord/tenant law.
Judge Donna Geck and current Presiding Judge Pauline Maxwell will host a judge’s panel.
The conference also offers a full day of Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credits in time for the State Bar reporting deadline, with sessions providing mandatory competency and ethics credits.
To register for the 2024 Bench and Bar Conference, visit http://tiny.cc/benchandbar/. Registration is $45 for members, $55 for non-members.
All three of the co-chairs are Santa Barbara County Bar Association board members.
Foley is a founding partner of Foley Bezek Behle & Curtis LLP, a law firm with offices in Santa Barbara and Costa Mesa that specializes in class and mass plaintiff actions, wildfire litigation, complex business litigation, lender liability, and entertainment litigation. Foley graduated from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 1975.
Glanville is a partner at Apex Family Law, P.C., a family law and trusts and estates litigation firm with attorneys in Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento. Glanville received her undergraduate degree from UCSB in 2010, and her juris doctorate from UC Hastings College of the Law (now UC Law San Francisco) in 2013.
Lloyd is an attorney with Capello & Noel LLP, a Santa Barbara law firm specializing in complex business litigation matters. Lloyd is a graduate of The Colleges of Law, Santa Barbara campus.
The Santa Barbara County Bar Association’s membership includes some 600 attorneys, judges, legal administrators, paralegals, law students and other professionals who work to improve the legal profession, the communities in which they live, and the administration of justice in society.
Direct questions about the conference, including sponsorship opportunities, to Marietta Jablonka, sblawdirector@gmail.com.