Women Lawyers Association
Presents
California Criminal Justice Reform Update
Sheryl Wolcott and Kara Stein-Conaway will discuss recent changes in California criminal law that illustrate the movement away from traditional convictions and incarceration. New diversion and treatment options are being created, and post-conviction remedies and retroactive application of legal changes are resulting in conviction and sentence reduction.
The Women Lawyers Association of San Luis Obispo County is a California State Bar approved MCLE provider. This program qualifies for one (1.0) hour of MCLE participatory credit. Please Join Us (remotely)!
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OUR SPEAKERS:
Sheryl Wolcott
Sheryl Wolcott is a Chief Deputy District Attorney at the San Luis Obispo District Attorney’s Office. She graduated in 1993 from the University of California, San Diego, with a double major in Literature/Writing and Political Science. In 1996, she received her Juris Doctorate from University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She has been a prosecutor since 1996, when she began her career at the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office. After trying cases for several years, Sheryl was a supervising attorney at the San Mateo District Attorney's Office for three years before joining the San Luis Obispo District Attorney's Office in 2007. Throughout her career, she held a variety of misdemeanor and felony assignments, including several years prosecuting domestic violence cases. Sheryl has been a Chief Deputy District Attorney since 2013.
Sheryl has been on the Board of Directors for the Women Lawyers Association for several years, and serves on the local Mock Trial Committee. She has previously served on the Board of Directors for the San Luis Obispo County Bar Association, including as President in 2018, and served on the Board of Directors for Stand Strong for six years.
Kara Stein-Conaway
Kara Stein-Conaway is an attorney who has been exclusively practicing criminal defense since 2008 when she started her career as a Deputy Public Defender in Los Angeles County. In 2017, Ms. Stein-Conaway opened the Stein-Conaway Law Firm, P.C., where she is the owner and managing attorney and where she practices with her father, attorney Jeff Stein. Ms. Stein-Conaway is fluent in Spanish and represents both English and Spanish-speaking adult clients in criminal matters in San Luis Obispo County.
Ms. Stein-Conaway also passionately advocates that career women should prioritize their own well-being by practicing more self-care and self-love. She believes that the model of working ourselves into the ground as a measure of success and contribution is outdated and unhealthy. She is an advocate for developing a new way of relating to our work and seeks to disrupt the legal industry and beyond with her self-care and self-love advocacy. She shares her stories of how she practices these things in career and motherhood, inspiration, and tools as the host of the Business Mamas Podcast. [www.karasteinconaway.com/podcast]
Via Zoom
The day before the event (August 31), the WLA will email all registered attendees the Zoom conference information, password, and CLE handouts.
* Late registrants should e-mail Elizabeth Culley at eculley@amblaw.com and Maren Hufton at mhufton@calpoly.edu directly to receive the Zoom information.
** Registered attendees who do not receive the email with the Zoom information, should check their junk mail folders. If a registered attendee has not received the Zoom information prior to the event, please email Maren Hufton at mhufton@calpoly.edu directly.
Payment Information:
$15.00 per attendee, regardless of whether or not you are a WLA member. All proceeds will go toward the WLA scholarship fund and the other worthy events hosted by the WLA.
If you are experiencing a financial hardship and unable to pay for this event, please email the WLA at womenlawyersslo@gmail.com.
There are two (2) ways to make a reservation for this event.
(1) Pay Online Using the Reservation Link below
(2) Send a check to:
Women Lawyers Association
P.O. Box 3918
San Luis Obispo, CA 93403-3918
*If you are having difficulty registering online, please try using a different internet browser or email Elizabeth Culley at the email listed below to reserve your spot.
**Please include the name(s) and state bar numbers of the attendee(s) on your check.
*** Please email Elizabeth Culley at eculley@amblaw.com stating that you've mailed your check and the names of those who will be attending.
Please RSVP one week in advance.