Letter from the Outgoing Chair

• Publication year: 2017
• Author: By Megan Zavieh

Letter From the Outgoing Chair

By Megan Zavieh

Megan Zavieh focuses her practice on attorney ethics, representing attorneys facing state bar disciplinary action and providing guidance to practicing attorneys on questions of legal ethics. She has been representing attorneys facing disciplinary action before the California State Bar since 2009 and is admitted to practice in California, Georgia, New York and New Jersey, as well as in Federal District Court and the U.S. Supreme Court. She blogs at California State Bar Defense.com and is a contributor at Lawyerist.com and Attorney at Work.com.

We always say how quickly time passes, whether it is how long we have been practicing lawyers or how fast our children grow, and my time as Chair of the Solo and Small Firm Section has truly flown by.

It has been a particularly busy year given the impending separation of the Sections from the State Bar of California, so that uncertainty has made it more exciting than usual. In thinking about our Section's leadership, I want to specifically thank Cindy Elkins of our representative with the Council of Sections for her tireless efforts on our Section's behalf through the separation. I could not have been an effective leader in other areas of our Section's work had she not taken the laboring oar on our behalf with the Council of Sections. Thank you, Cindy.

I am honored to have been a part of the leadership of this great Section for the last four years, and I hand off the baton to our new Chair, Ritzel Ngo, knowing that our Section is in the best hands. Ritzel has served on the Executive Committee throughout my time here, and her contributions have been tremendous. I am thrilled to have her step into the Chair's role. We also have an incredible Executive Committee of dedicated volunteers, including four new members joining us this fall. I am excited to see what the committee can...