RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

October 2022: Ellen Pansky participated on a panel entitled “The Ethics Factor: Entertainment Malpractice and State Bar Issues” for the Beverly Hills Bar Association, and USC Institute on Entertainment Law and Business, on October 22, 2022.

September 2022: Ellen Pansky recorded a CEB Webinar entitled “What to do if You Become a Target of a State Bar Complaint” in September 2022.

August 2022: Ellen Pansky has been named to the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America for her high caliber work in Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law.

August 2022: Ellen Pansky participated on a panel with Judge Cynthia Valenzuela, Judge Yvette Roland and State Bar Supervising Attorney George Cardona entitled “The California Attorney Regulatory/Disciplinary System“ at the International Legal Ethics Conference IX (ILEC), held at UCLA Luskin Conference Center on August 14, 2022.

March 2022: The Daily Journal published Ellen Pansky’s article, entitled Do Ask, Do Tell: Are Intrafirm Communications Privileged?, in the March 9, 2022 supplement.

February 2022: Ellen Pansky spoke on a panel entitled “Tricky Topics in Lawyer Discipline” at the APRL mid-year meeting on February 11, 2022.

January 2022:  Ellen Pansky was a recipient of the Los Angeles Daily Journal 2022 Top Professional Responsibility Lawyers in California award.

January 2022: Ellen Pansky was a presenter for a program entitled “What to Do When the State Bar Comes Calling” at the CAAA Convention on January 22, 2022.

January 2022: Ellen Pansky participated as a panelist for the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s Entertainment Law Section on January 19, 2022.

January 2022: Ellen Pansky presented a legal ethics MCLE program entitled “Dodging Ethical Bullets While Practicing During A Pandemic: Practical Application of the California Rules of Professional Conduct” to the Riverside County Bar Association on January 14, 2022.

December 2021: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “Avoiding and Defending State Bar Complaints Under the Current Rules of Professional Conduct“ to a private firm on December 8, 2021.

November 2021: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “California State Bar Rules of Professional Conduct: Major 2018 Changes, Nuances and Avoiding Ethical Violations and Disciplinary Complaints” to a private firm on November 17, 2021.

November 2021: Ellen Pansky authored an article entitled “Please Release Me: Seeking Limitation of Liability from a Client” for the Los Angeles County Bar Association Update, November 2021 issue.

September 2021: Ellen Pansky presented a legal ethics MCLE program regarding the Unauthorized Practice of Law to the Westlake Village Lawyers Affinity Group on September 17, 2021.

June 2021: Ellen Pansky participated on the UCLA Entertainment Law Symposium Ethics Panel in June 2021.

March 2021: Ellen Pansky was a panelist for the LACBA Real Property Section MCLE program entitled “The Ethics of an ADA Noncompliance Case from Lease to Trial” on March 26, 2021.

January 2021: Ellen Pansky was appointed to the State Bar of California’s Ad Hoc Commission on the Discipline System.

January 2021: Ellen Pansky participated in a presentation entitled “Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation: Avoiding Discipline Under CRPC 8.4.1” with LACBA for Ethics: All You Need to Know 2021 (Part 2) on January 28, 2021.

January 2021: Ellen Pansky participated as a panelist on a webinar entitled “Ethics in the Entertainment Industry” for the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s Entertainment Law Section on January 20, 2021.

December 2020: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program to a private firm in Los Angeles on December 16, 2020. The topic was Dealing With Conflicts of Interest in a Pandemic: Do you need waivers when the interests of multiple clients are aligned? What is an ethical screen and do you construct one? What is the current status of imputed conflicts of interest among lawyers in the same firm?

November 2020: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program to workers compensation lawyers, as a co-sponsor with Sullivan On Comp, entitled “Feeling Conflicted About Conflicts? California’s conflict of Interest Rules in the Workers Compensation Setting” on November 30, 2020

November 2020: Ellen Pansky was quoted in a Los Angeles Daily Journal article on November 2, 2020, regarding multijurisdictional practice of law and the advisability of revising the current California rules of Court regulating interstate practice; and in the following Bloomberg article on November 10, 2020, regarding the use of ethical screens to avoid conflicts of interest. Read the Article

August 2020: Ellen Pansky organized and moderated an MCLE panel entitled “What Does It Take to Be a Lawyer In The Time Of Pandemic” at the APRL virtual mid-year meeting on August 14, 2020. This panel included Judith Gunderson of the National Conference of Bar Examiners, Professor Leslie C. Levin, University of Connecticut School of Law, and Professor Richard Zitrin, UC Hastings School of Law. The panel explored emerging issues relating to the admission to practice law, including conditional and limited admissions, reduced bar passage criteria, the proper role of character and fitness inquiries in admissions cases, and whether Covid-19 pandemic travel restrictions should affect the definition of UPL by lawyers.

July 2020: Ellen Pansky has been re-appointed to PREC and to the President’s Advisory Committee on Women in the Legal Profession for LACBA’s 2020-2021 year.

July 2020: Ellen Pansky was a guest speaker at an MCLE presentation entitled “Successfully Navigating Ethical Issues” for a private firm in San Diego on July 7, 2020.

May 2020: Ellen Pansky has been named to the advisory board of Athena Lawyers LLP, described as “a firm that has harnessed together for the first time the boundless legal talents, creativity and energy of some of the most successful trial lawyers in the country into one powerhouse firm with a common important goal: to ensure that women trial lawyers succeed”.  Learn more at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1NKZut4aNDFpl4EvZObRGzkcconwzG3xW

May 2020: Ellen Pansky participated in a podcast called Civil Action with attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian, discussing recent appellate decisions impacting the plaintiffs’ practice, on May 6, 2020.

February 2020: Ellen Pansky participated on a panel entitled “Prone to Hyperbole: Addressing a Respondent Client’s Honesty Issues, Whether in the Underlying Representation, with You, or in Bar Proceedings before Your Involvement, and Negotiating Down Discipline For Lawyers with Clear Violations” at the APRL mid-year meeting in Austin, TX on February 14, 2020.

January 2020: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled  “Dodge the Bullet: Five Malpractice Threats to Avoid By Fulfilling Your Ethical Duties To Your Clients” to the Western San Bernardino Bar Association on January 30, 2020.

January 2020: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “Stress, Depression and Substance Abuse in the Legal Profession: The Problem and How to Address It” to the Pasadena Bar Association on January 23, 2020.

January 2020: Ellen Pansky was a participant on a legal ethics panel at the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s 2019 Entertainment Year in Review on January 15, 2020.

In the past year, Ellen Pansky served as the testifying legal ethics expert witness on behalf of plaintiffs/former clients in three separate legal malpractice/breach of fiduciary cases:

• In one case resolved through private arbitration, the lawyer was found to have engaged in several ethical breaches, including UPL, and ordered to disgorge hundreds of thousands of dollars of previously paid legal fees, to forfeit unpaid fees and to pay attorney fees and costs.
• In a second class action case tried before a federal district court judge,  the final judgment ordered the lawyer defendant to pay $12 Million to the class, citing Ellen’s testimony in the decision.
• In a third matter,  following trial before a Los Angeles Superior Court judge, the lawyer defendant was found culpable of numerous serious breaches of legal ethics including failure to hold disputed funds in trust and failure to account for client funds. The judgment required the lawyer defendant to  disgorge over $200,000 in legal fees.

November 2019: Ellen Pansky is pleased to announce that Art Barsegyan has been promoted to Senior Associate at Pansky Markle Attorneys at Law.

September 2019: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “Avoiding and Defending State Bar Complaints in Light of the New Rules of Professional Conduct” to a private firm in Newport Beach on September 25, 2019.

September 2019: Art Barsegyan presented an MCLE program entitled “2019 California Rules of Professional Conduct: New Rules, Major Changes, and Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls” to the California Association of Realtors’ In-House Attorneys in Los Angeles on September 5, 2019.

August 2019: Ellen Pansky presented a program entitled “Defending Against the State Bar Complaint” at the annual CAALA meeting in Las Vegas on August 30, 2019.

June 2019: Art Barsegyan presented an MCLE program entitled “California’s New Rules of Professional Conduct” to The Esquire Network in Glendale on June 25, 2019.

June 2019: Ellen Pansky was selected to the California Women Lawyers’ Gender Equity Task Force Speakers Bureau, which connects individuals with female attorneys to address a wide range of legal issues.

May 2019: Ellen Pansky presented an ABA webinar entitled “What You Should Know: Legal Ethics Pitfalls and Hot Issues Attorneys Encounter” on May 20, 2019.

May 2019: Ellen Pansky moderated a panel entitled “A Woman’s Place is in the Lead”, featuring Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey, for the LACBA/WLALA Joint Task Force program entitled “10 Years of a Call to Action: Where are we Now?” in Los Angeles on May 2, 2019.

March 2019: Ellen Pansky and Art Barsegyan  presented an MCLE program entitled “How to Avoid Trust Account Nightmares” at the Los Angeles Law Library on March 13, 2019.

February 2019: Art Barsegyan presented an MCLE program entitled “2018 California Rules of Professional Conduct: New Rules, Major Changes and Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls” to ProVisors Lawyers Affinity Group in Glendale on February 2, 2019.

January 2019: Ellen Pansky participated as a panelist on a program entitled “Cross-Border Law Practice in the 21^st Century: Is Meaningful Reform Possible?” at the APRL mid-year meeting in Las Vegas on January 25, 2019.

January 2019: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program on the new California Rules of Professional Conduct to a private firm in Century City on January 23, 2019.

January 2019: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program on the new California Rules of Professional Conduct to a private firm in Glendale on January 18, 2019.

January 2019: Ellen Pansky participated on the legal ethics panel at the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s 2018 Entertainment Year in Review on January 17, 2019.

November 2018: Ellen Pansky participated in a discussion at the Federal Bar Association Bankruptcy Ethics Symposium on November 16, 2018.

November 2018: Ellen Pansky was a panelist, along with State Bar Judge Kearse McGill, for the Los Angeles Valley Applicant Attorneys Ethics Panel in Sherman Oaks on November 14, 2018.

November 2018: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “New Rules of Professional Conduct“ to the Western San Bernardino County Bar Association in Ontario on November 8, 2018.

October 2018: Ellen Pansky co-presented a LACBA PREC MCLE program on the new California Rules of Professional Conduct to the Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association in Rosemead on October 30, 2018.

October 2018: Ellen Pansky  presented an MCLE program entitled “New Rules of Professional Conduct” to a private firm in Woodland Hills on October 24, 2018.

October 2018: Art Barsegyan presented an MCLE program entitled “Avoiding a State Bar Complaint” to the Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers on October 23, 2018.

October 2018: Ellen Pansky was the co-organizer and MCLE provider of a weekend program entitled “Trial Skills and Ethics” for a private firm’s annual attorney retreat in Santa Barbara from October 5 through 7, 2018.

September 2018: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “New Rules of Professional Conduct” to a private firm in Los Angeles on September 17, 2018.

August 2018: Ellen Pansky co-presented the game ball at the LA Sparks game on August 5, 2018, on behalf of the LACBA/WLALA Joint Task Force on the Retention and Promotion of Women Lawyers. (The Sparks won!)

August 2018: Ellen Pansky and Art Barsegyan presented an MCLE program entitled “New Rules of Professional Conduct” to the Friends of the Los Angeles County Law Library on August 15, 2018.

June 2018: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “New Rules of Professional Conduct” to the Greater Los Angeles Association of Legal Administrators at the Jonathan Club in Los Angeles on June 13, 2018.

June 2018: Ellen Pansky participated as a panelist on a program entitled “Hot Topics in Lawyer Compensation“ to the ABA National Conference on Professional Responsibility in Louisville, Kentucky on June 1, 2018.

March 2018: Art Barsegyan presented an MCLE program to the Desert Bar Association in Palm Springs on March 16, 2018, entitled “Safeguarding Your Law License: How to Avoid and Respond to a State Bar Complaint.”

February 2018: Ellen Pansky spoke at the breakout panel entitled “Legal Outsourcing: Practical and Ethical Considerations” at the ABA Litigation Corporate Counsel CLE Seminar in La Quinta on February 16, 2018.

February 2018: Ellen Pansky participated as a panelist on a program entitled “Disbarment” at the APRL mid-year meeting in Vancouver on February 2, 2018.

February 2018: Ellen Pansky participated as a panelist on a program entitled “Are Professional Adjudicators the Answer?” at the National Organization of Bar Counsel’s mid-year meeting in Vancouver on February 1, 2018.

January 2018: Ellen Pansky spoke at the California Applicants’ Attorneys Association (CAAA) Winter Convention in Rancho Mirage, as a panelist on a program entitled “House Cleaning: The New Rules of Ethics” on January 27, 2018.

January 2018: Ellen Pansky participated as a panelist on a program entitled “The Ethics Factor” at the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s 2017 Entertainment Year in Review at The Montage on January 11, 2018.

 

 

September 2017: Ellen Pansky spoke on substance abuse at the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel seminar in Santa Barbara on September 22, 2017.

September 2017: Ellen Pansky presented a program entitled “Once the Bar Calls, What Do I Do?” at the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA) annual convention in Las Vegas on September 1, 2017.

May 2017: Ellen Pansky presented a program entitled “Ethics Issues Relating to the Use of Expert Witnesses” at the American Bar Association Conference on Professional Responsibility in St. Louis on June 2, 2017

January 2017: Ellen Pansky participated in an MCLE webinar entitled “Ethical Dilemmas and the Professional Rules of Responsibility in Law Practice” for the California Association of Black Lawyers on January 30, 2017.

January 2017: Ellen Pansky was a panelist for an MCLE program entitled “The Year in Ethics and the State Bar” for the Beverly Hills Bar Association on January 11, 2017

January 2017: Ellen Pansky was quoted in an ABA/BNA article entitled “Invoices for Legal Services Aren’t Always Privileged, California Says” for the Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct, Vol. 33, No. 1, January 11, 2017. Here is a link to that article.

 

December 2016: Ellen Pansky presented a program entitled “Attorney’s Rights and Obligations in Representing Clients in Dependency Cases” to the Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers on December 14, 2016.

November 2016: Ellen Pansky was accepted to membership in Lawyers of Distinction.

November 2016: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “Morals vs. Ethics: Is There a Difference?” to the Desert Bar Association on November 18, 2016.

November 2016: Ellen Pansky participated in a panel presentation entitled “The Ethics of Appellate Practice” for the Los Angeles County Bar Association Appellate Court Section on November 16, 2016.

October 2016: Ellen Pansky participated in an MCLE presentation entitled “Ethics Idol: Ethics Across Disciplines” at the State Bar of California Annual Meeting in San Diego on October 1, 2016.

September 2016: Ellen Pansky presented two MCLE programs on September 30, 2016, to private firms in Newport Beach: “How to Keep Your Clients Happy and Avoid a State Bar Complaint” and “An Inside Look at California’s Attorney Discipline System, Avoiding the Unauthorized Practice of Law, and Practical Techniques for Addressing and Avoiding Unethical Conflicts of Interest”.

September 2016: Ellen Pansky participated in an MCLE panel on Legal Ethics to the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles at their annual meeting in Las Vegas on September 2, 2016. Her presentation is entitled “Stay Out of the State Bar Discipline Process”.

August 2016: Art Barsegyan was a panelist for the Year in Review presentation at the APRL annual meeting in San Francisco on August 6, 2016.

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August 2016: On August 4, 2016 at its annual meeting in San Francisco, the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, through its president Lynda Shely, presented Ellen Pansky with the prestigious Charles W. Kettlewell Legal Ethics Advisor Award.

In April 2010, the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL), the nation’s largest association of legal ethics practitioners, presented its first Charles W. Kettlewell Legal Ethics Advisor Award to a lawyer who has demonstrated excellence in and dedication to the field of legal ethics and professional responsibility, by representing, advising, educating or mentoring lawyers. APRL was founded in 1990 primarily by lawyers who represent and advise lawyers, and the Kettlewell Award is intended to recognize superior lifetime achievement and contribution in the “law of lawyering” field.

The Kettlewell Award is named in honor and in memory of Charles W. (“Chuck”) Kettlewell, who was one of APRL’s founders and who served as its first President. Kettlewell, who passed away in 2005 in the prime of an outstanding career, was an internationally known expert in professional responsibility and legal ethics, who received the ABA’s Michael Franck Professional Responsibility Award, in recognition of his wide-ranging lifetime contributions to the field of legal ethics.

The Kettlewell Award has been presented to only four awardees to date, including Ms. Pansky. Ellen is supremely honored to have received this honor, in the name of her close and dear friend, Chuck Kettlewell.

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June 2016: Ellen Pansky participated in an MCLE panel entitled “Another Kind of Competency” for the Pasadena Bar Association Women’s Focus Group on June 1, 2016.

May 2016: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “Conflict Avoidance: How to Manage Representation of Multiple Clients and Avoid State Bar Complaints and Disqualification” to the Desert Bar Association in Palm Desert on May 20, 2016.

April 2016: Ellen Pansky participated in a panel entitled “Bar Regulation (Discipline and Admissions) in the EU (and Elsewhere)” at the annual meeting of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL) in Paris on April 13, 2016.

March 2016: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “Pro Bono Legal Services: What Are Your Duties?” at the Los Angeles County Bar Domestic Violence Legal Services Project seminar on March 16, 2016.

March 2016: Ellen Pansky participated in a panel presentation at Loyola Law School on March 15, 2016.

February 2016: Ellen Pansky moderated an MCLE program entitled “Another Kind of Competency” at the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles meeting on February 18, 2016.

February 2016: Ellen Pansky was a panelist at the APRL midyear meeting in San Diego on February 5, 2016. The program, entitled “Where Duties of Client Loyalty & Confidentiality Collide: Joint Representations in a Single Matter Revisited”, follows on a well-received session at the ABA National Conference of Professional Responsibility in Denver last May, with an interactive panel exploring in depth the confidentiality, conflict of interest, and other professional responsibility issues that arise when lawyers seek to represent multiple clients in a single matter.

October 2015: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “Keeping the State Bar at Bay: Avoiding Conflicts of Interest and Navigating MCLE Audits” to the Wilshire Bar Association on October 28, 2015.

October 2015: Ellen Pansky received the following note of thanks from the American Bar Association on October 26, 2015: “Dear Ellen, We are tremendously grateful for your service to advance the mission and agenda of the Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. Your contributions on behalf of the American Bar Association are most appreciated. The strength and vitality of a volunteer organization rest with those who become involved in its activities and who play a key role in our advocacy as the national representative of the legal profession. Thank you again for carrying out your appointment with such excellence and initiative. Sincerely, Paulette Brown, President, American Bar Association”

October 2015: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “Complying with Your Ethical Obligations to Clients and the Court in Workers’ Compensation Litigation” to a private firm in Orange County in October 2015.

August 2015: The firm has been selected for inclusion in the 22nd Edition of The Best Lawyers in America for 2016, in the practice area of Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law.

August 2015: Ellen Pansky has been named a 2015 Top Attorney by Pasadena Magazine.

August 2015: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE course entitled, “How to Keep Your Clients Happy and Avoid a State Bar Complaint”, to two private firms in Orange County in August 2015.

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July 2015: The firm was a sponsor of the South Pasadena “Concerts in the Park” series again this summer. These concerts provide a safe atmosphere where families come together and celebrate their community while socializing and enjoying great music.

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July 2015: Ellen Pansky moderated a panel entitled “Tipping the Balance: Practical Tips for Managing High Level Practice and Family” for the Los Angeles County Bar Association and Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Joint Task Force on July 16, 2015.

May 2015: Ellen Pansky was a panelist for a presentation entitled “Off the Beaten Path in Lawyer Discipline Prosecution and Defense” at the ABA National Professional Responsibility conference on May 28, 2015.

January 2015: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE Ethics training program to the Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers on January 30, 2015. Ms. Pansky addressed several common hypothetical situations and offered advice about the applicable ethical rules to be followed.

December 2014: Ellen Pansky gave a presentation entitled “Charging and Collecting Your Due Without Having State Bar Problems” to the Lawyer’s Club of Los Angeles County on December 17, 2014.

December 2014: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “Developing Legal Ethics Issues and Little Known Ethics Rules” to a private entertainment firm in Los Angeles on December 10, 2014.

December 2014: Ellen Pansky  gave a presentation entitled “Keeping Your Law License in Check” at the Los Angeles County Bar Association Inn of Courts on December 3, 2014.

October 2014: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “Staying Out of Trouble: Fee Agreements, Billing Statements and Client Trust Account Procedures to Keep You Safe” to the Wilshire Bar Association on October 29, 2014.

September 2014: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “CEOC Ethics Seminar: Conflicts, Confidentiality and Playing it Cool with the State Bar” to a private firm in Encino on September 10, 2014.

August 2014: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program on ethics regarding client trust accounts to a private firm in Irvine on August 27, 2014.

July 2014: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “Practical Techniques for Addressing and Avoiding Unethical Conflicts of Interest” to the Antelope Valley Bar Association on July 31, 2014.

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Ellen was one of the presenters of the 2014 Charles W. Kettlewell Legal Ethics Advisor Award to APRL founding member Jack Weiss, at APRL’s annual meeting in Boston on August 7, 2014. She is seen here with former Kettlewell Award recipient Mark Harrison, Jack Weiss and immediate past president of APRL, Art Lachman.

June 2014: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program on three topics entitled “An Inside Look at California’s Attorney Discipline System”, “Avoiding the Unauthorized Practice of Law-Interstate Law and Multijurisdictional Practice”, and “Practical Techniques for Addressing and Avoiding Unethical Conflicts of Interest” to a private entertainment firm in Los Angeles on June 20, 2014.

May 2014: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE webinar entitled “Should I Tweet About That? Ethics, Advertising and the Internet” on May 14, 2014, for the American Bar Association Center for Professional Development.

April 2014: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “Beyond the Privilege: The Ethical Duty of Confidentiality for the Business Lawyer” on April 12, 2014, for the American Bar Association Business Law Section.

February 2014: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “Practical and Ethical Considerations Regarding Conflict and Communications in Multiple Party Representation” on February 26, 2014, for the Los Angeles County Bar Association Labor & Employment Symposium.

January 2014: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “Starting Your Own Practice” on January 23, 2014, for the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Young Lawyers Section.

January 2014: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “Ethical and Malpractice Issues for the Entertainment Attorney” on January 15, 2014, for the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s 2013 Entertainment Year in Review.

December 2013: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “Attorney’s Rights and Obligations in Representing Clients in Dependency Cases” on December 18, 2013, for Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers.

December 2013: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE webinar program entitled “Money Matters: Fee Agreements and Billing Statements that Will Keep You Out of Trouble” on December 11, 2013, for Pincus Professional Education.

December 2013: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program entitled “Attorney-Client Relationships: Disqualification, Withdrawing from Representation, and Avoiding Violation of CRPC 3-110” on December 7, 2013, for the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

November 2013: The firm was named a “Tier 1 Best Law Firm” by U.S. News and Best Lawyers for 2014.

November 2013: Ellen Pansky presented an MCLE program regarding ethical issues associated with criminal defense practice to a private firm in Long Beach on November 15, 2013.

October 2013: Ellen Pansky hasve been named Southern California Super Lawyers again for 2014. She has been selected to Southern California Super Lawyers since 2006.

October 2013: Ellen Pansky gave a presentation entitled “Conflict Waivers” to the Wilshire Bar Association at their meeting in Los Angeles on October 9, 2013.

October 2013: Ellen Pansky gave a presentation entitled “Hot Topics in Legal Ethics: How to Avoid a State Bar Complaint” to the Long Beach Bar Association at their meeting on October 19, 2013.

August 2013: Ellen Pansky was selected for the 2014 “Best Lawyers in America” in the practice area of Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law (Best Lawyers 20th Edition).

May 2013: Ellen Pansky participated on a panel discussion at the ABA’s National Conference on Professional Responsibility on May 30-31, 2013, in San Antonio, entitled “Making Civility Mandatory: Holding Attorneys to a Higher Standard of Conduct”.

April 2013: Ellen Pansky participated on a panel discussion at the State Bar’s Annual Ethics Symposium at UCLA Law School on April 20, 2013. The topic of the symposium is “The Intersection Between Ethics and Civility”.

March 2013: Ellen Pansky participated on a panel discussion at the ALFA International Client Seminar on March 7-9, 2013, in Palm Springs, entitled “Take the Ethics Challenge”.

February 2013: Ellen Pansky participated on a panel discussion at the APRL Mid-Year meeting scheduled on February 7-9, 2013, in Dallas, entitled “Beyond the Routine; Prosecuting and Defending the ‘Other’ Cases”. This panel is a joint presentation of APRL and NOBC.

January 2013: Ellen Pansky hasve been named Southern California Super Lawyers again for 2013. She has been selected to Southern California Super Lawyers since 2006.

January 2013: Ellen Pansky gave a presentation entitled “Practical Techniques for Addressing and Avoiding Unethical Conduct” to WLALA at the offices of Crowell & Moring on January 23, 2013.

November 2012: The firm was named a “Best Law Firm” by U.S. News and World report for 2013.

October 2012: Ellen Pansky participated on a panel discussion at the State Bar of California Annual Meeting held October 11-14, 2012, entitled “Hot Topics in the World of Legal Ethics,” which was presented by the Association of Discipline Defense Counsel.

August 2012: Ellen Pansky moderated the panel “Lawyers’ Disclosure of Wrongdoing in Public and Private Organizations” at the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers annual meeting in Chicago, IL. on August 3, 2012.

July 2012: Ellen Pansky has been appointed as a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, for a three year term commencing at the ABA’s August 2012 annual meeting in Chicago, IL.

July 2012: Ellen Pansky presented her MCLE program “Electronic Practice of Law: Pitfalls, Perils & Perks” to a private firm in Los Angeles on July 11, 2012.

July 2012: The firm is a sponsor of South Pasadena’s Summer Concert Series. The Concerts are free to the public, and are held in Garfield Park in South Pasadena. The Concerts are a beloved local tradition, bringing together hundreds of families and children for outdoor music, picnics and fun for the entire family. The Firm has sponsored the Summer Concert Series for a number of years, and is also a sponsor of South Pasadena Little League.

May 2012: The firm has been selected for inclusion in the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

May 2012: Ellen A. Pansky attended the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers Sixth International Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 2-4, 2012. Ellen Pansky led the traditional Roundtable Discussion with two accomplished Turkish women attorneys, Bilge Kockaya and Habibe Iyimayi Kayaaslan. She met with the Dean of Yeditepe University’s School of Law, and with faculty from both Yeditepe’s law school as well as other Turkish law schools, concerning legal issues of importance in Turkey today. She was given a tour of Istanbul’s new courthouse by a local prosecutor and Yeditepe University law school graduate.

February 2012: Ellen Pansky participated in the National Association of Women Lawyers 2012 Mid-Year Program, “Reaching For The Stars.” In addition to serving as panelist on the CLE program, “Effective Networking: New Tools In A New Era In Law”, Ms. Pansky served as a member of the programming committee. The compelling day-long event and luncheon honoring Hon. Dorothy W. Nelson and Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. was attended by over 200 people.

January 2012: Ellen Pansky has been named to the elite list of Top 50 Women Southern California Super Lawyers 2012. Ellen was also named a Southern California Super Lawyer again for 2012. Ellen has been selected to Southern California Super Lawyers since 2006.

January 2012: Ellen Pansky has been named an AV Preeminent Rated Lawyer by Lexis Nexus Martindale-Hubbell.

January 2012:  Ellen Pansky presented on the topic “Special Problems of Waiver of the Attorney-Client Privilege for In-House Counsel” to a private firm.

January 2012:  The State Bar of California has renewed The firm’s MCLE Multiple Activity Provider approval through December 31, 2014.

December 2011:  Ellen Pansky presented her MCLE program, “If the State Bar Calls, Answer It!” to the Lawyers’ Club of Los Angeles County.

November 2011: The firm was a supporter of the Black Women Lawyer’s wonderful soirée at Cicada in downtown Los Angeles.

November 2011: The firm was a supporter of the Los Angeles County Bar Foundation’s Casino Night.  The Los Angeles County Bar Foundation is “dedicated to improving the administration of justice, advancing the interests of the profession, and serving the public in law-related ways.”  The law firm and its partners each make an annual contribution to support the Foundation.

November 2011:  Ellen Pansky has been included in Pasadena Magazine’s list of Top Attorneys for 2011, in the areas of Legal Ethics and Law Practice Management, respectively, and attended the Top Attorneys reception held at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena.

September 2011: The firm was a Bronze sponsor of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles 2011 Annual Awards and Installation Dinner, and attended the reception held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel.

August 2011: The firm was named a “Best Law Firm” by U.S. News and World Report for 2011-2012.

July 2011:  Ellen Pansky was reappointed as Assistant Vice President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Board of Trustees.