Amber Bevacqua-Lynott is Of Counsel with Buchalter’s Portland, San Diego and Seattle offices. She is the Co-Chair of the Firm’s Professional Responsibility Group and a member of the Litigation Practice Group. Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott provides guidance and legal representation to attorneys, licensed professionals, and other business clients, including firms and in-house legal departments. Her practice centers on legal ethics, risk management, and discipline defense. She acts as outside counsel to clients in a variety of industries, providing advice and counsel on all manner of ethics issues, including conflicts, confidentiality, malpractice, risk management, and fee issues. In addition, Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott represents lawyers, students, and other professionals in front of regulatory authorities and bar associations on licensing, admissions, reinstatement, reciprocity, character and fitness, consumer protection, unauthorized practice of law, and disciplinary matters.

Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott has more than 25 years of legal experience, including extensive civil trial experience. Prior to joining Buchalter, Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott worked in the Oregon State Bar’s Disciplinary Counsel’s Office (DCO) as an Assistant Disciplinary Counsel, where she enforced the Oregon Rules of Professional Conduct through the investigation and prosecution of alleged misconduct. During her time in DCO, Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott successfully first-chaired several dozen civil trials, and investigated or prosecuted hundreds of disciplinary matters. The last six years of her tenure with DCO, she was the Chief Assistant Disciplinary Counsel and Deputy Director of Regulatory Services, and also acted as Chief Trial Counsel. Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott’s years of experience both in defending and prosecuting ethical violations, offers her clients a unique insight and expertise on ethics issues and professional obligations. Intimately versed in legal ethics, Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott developed, updated, and presented Legal Ethics Best Practices, a semi-annual “ethics school” for attorneys. She also prepared and edited the annual annotations of all Bar formal proceeding dispositions, requiring that she be expertly familiar with each stipulated and adjudicated case result. She regularly presents seminars on ethics issues, both locally and nationally, and frequently provides ethics advice to attorneys. Ms. Bevacqua has been named one of The Best Lawyers in America, for Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law in 2024-2026.

Sheila Grela is a Senior Litigation Paralegal at Buchalter with extensive expertise in eDiscovery. She earned her paralegal certificate with honors from the ABA-approved USD Paralegal Program, holds an Advanced Certified Paralegal (ACP) designation in eDiscovery, and has achieved certifications as a Relativity Review Management Specialist (RRMS) and a Certified eDiscovery Specialist (CEDS). Ms. Grela co-leads the innovative “Virtual Lunch with Leaders” series, a collaborative weekly program with SDPA, EDRM, and Practice Aligned Resources, serves as Director of the San Diego Chapter of Women in eDiscovery and was honored with the 2022 Gayle O’Connor GO Spirit Award.

Julian F. LaCasse is an of counsel attorney with Radiant Probate & Estate Law, Inc. whose practice focuses on estate, business and tax planning, administration of decedents’ estates including trust and probate administration, and various business matters such as creation, administration, governance and succession of entities. To maintain his expertise, Mr. LaCasse presents on these and related topics for CLE seminars hosted by the National Business Institutes and elsewhere. Before joining Radiant Probate & Estate Law, Inc Julian worked at a boutique trust and estates firm for several years, refining his practice by working on planning for and administration of taxable estates. While attending Santa Clara University School of Law, Mr. LaCasse pursued diverse interests through his work in Congress for Representative Sam Farr, a fellowship with former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and publishing online on the topic of bail reform and policy, on his way to earning a Public Interest and Social Justice Law Certificate.

Mr. Suits is the Chief Executive Officer of Suits Litigation, Inc., a plaintiff personal injury firm based in San Jose, California, which he founded in 2012. With 22 years of legal experience, he focuses his practice on advocating for individuals who have sustained serious injuries in motor vehicle accidents, including those involving cars, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, and pedestrians. Mr. Suits earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1997 before obtaining his law degree from the University of Southern California Law School in 2003. Prior to establishing his own practice, he worked as a litigation attorney for the firms of Tharpe & Howell, LLP and Robinson & Wood, Inc.