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Heather L. Rosing
Shareholder and Chief Financial Officer

Heather L. Rosing has extensive experience representing lawyers, accountants, psychologists, and other professionals in professional liability matters.  In addition, Ms. Rosing provides non-litigation services in the areas of ethics and risk management, and serves as an expert witness on such issues. She also practices generally in the area of business litigation.

Ms. Rosing is the chair of Klinedinst's Professional Liability Group, and the recipient of Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating. Heather is also a frequent speaker and writer in the area of professional liability, ethics, and risk management. She has spoken at the local, state and national level.  

At Klinedinst PC, she served as General Counsel from 2005-2007, and has served as Chief Financial Officer of the firm since 2006.

Heather is very active in the community. She is the President of the San Diego County Bar Association San Diego County Bar Association (SDCBA) in 2008, after having served on the board of directors for four years, and as the co-chair of the Legal Ethics Committee in 2006.  The SDCBA is an 11,000 member organization. Heather also previously served on the board of directors of the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program, and co-chaired the organization's first ever LAF-Off in 2007.  She is also active in Lawyers Club of San Diego, having served as the golf tournament chairperson and newsletter editor.  In recent years, Heather also served as the president of the Northwestern Alumni Club of San Diego, a board member of the Northwestern Law School Fund Board and Law School Alumni Board, a board member of the San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy, a board member of the Japan Society of San Diego & Tijuana, and a team leader for the San Diego Rock-N-Roll Marathon.  Heather also is an member of many professional and law-related organizations, including the Professional Liability Underwriting Society, the San Diego Psychological Association, the Louis M. Welsh American Inns of Court, the Women's Insolvency Network, and the San Diego Bankruptcy Forum.

Born in Chicago, Heather attended the University of Illinois and Northwestern University School of Law, where she served as president of the Student Bar Association. She has been licensed to practice law in California since 1996, and in Illinois since 1997.

Martindale-Hubbell Rating

Highest rating for legal ability and ethical standards.

Professional and Community Affiliations

Publications and Interviews

  • “Californians Trust the Legal System,” KPBS These Days, September 22, 2005

  • "Attorneys Confront Online Ethics During National Conference,” San Diego Business Journal, May 23, 2005

  • “Aaron B. Burr Gets a Website,” San Diego Lawyer, November/December, 2004 (Co-Author)

  • "A Discussion About Professionalism and Conduct in the Courtroom with Judge Whelan," ABTL Report, November, 2004

  • "Collecting Your Legal Fee," Law Practice Management Review: The Audio Magazine for Busy Lawyers™, June, 2004

  • "It's Not Just About Money: Keeping Fee Disputes to a Minimum Can Be Key to Reducing Risks of Malpractice Claims and Disciplinary Complaints," ABA Journal, May, 2004

  • "Ethics: Entity Representation," San Diego Lawyer, July/August, 2003

  • "To Whistleblow or Not to Whistleblow: Privileges, Ethics, and Federal Preemption," ABTL Report, April, 2003

Recent News

Recognition and Awards

Speaking Engagements

  • "Trust Accounts & Credit Cards," North County Certified Family Law Specialists, October, 2007 (with Ellen Peck)

  • "Ethical Fallout of Technology," California State Bar Convention, September, 2007 (with Prof. Kevin Mohr and David Parker)

  • "Strategies for Avoiding Bad Faith Claims," Spring 2007 National Legal Malpractice Conference, Standing Committee on Lawyers’ Professional Liability, April, 2007 (with Gary Kull, Esq., and Michael W. Voorhees, Esq.)

  • "Risky Business: An Interactive Program in Professionalism, Exploring Actual Episodes of Ethical Dilemmas," SDCBA Legal Ethics Committee, January, 2007 (co-chair)

  • "Ethical Fallout of Technology," Beverly Hills Bar Association, Entertainment Law, January, 2007 (with Prof. Kevin Mohr and David Parker)

  • "Ethics for Accountants," California CPA Educational Foundation, 2007

  • "Ethics for Immigration Lawyers," The San Diego Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, October, 2006

  • "The Ethical Fallout of Technology," 2006 Institute on Entertainment Law and Business, USC Gould School of Law and the Beverly Hills Bar Association, September 2006 (with Prof. Kevin Mohr and David Parker)

  • "Desperate Websites: Tangling With the Attorney Neighborhood of Websites and Internet Communications," SDCBA, June, 2006

  • "Ethics Procrastinator’s Program," Legal Ethics Committee, San Diego County Bar Association, January, 2006 (with Judge Leo Papas and David Noonan)

  • "Legal Ethics at Bridging the Gap for Paralegals and Attorneys," San Diego Paralegal Association in conjunction with the paralegal programs from USD, Southwestern College, City/Miramar Colleges, UCSD, and Cuyamaca College, February, 2006

  • "Exploring Options As A Business Trial Lawyer," California Western School of Law, November 2005

  • "Ethics & the Internet," Young/New Lawyer Division of the SDCBA, September 29, 2005

  • "Cutting Edge Ethics - The Latest Trends in Professional Responsibility and the Rules of Professional Conduct," California State Bar Annual Meeting, September 10, 2005 (with Danny Eaton, Ellen Peck, Anthonie Voogd, Prof. Kevin Mohr)

  • "Lost in Cyberspace: Ethics for the Online Lawyer," La Jolla Bar Association, September 8, 2005 (with Gino Serpe and David Carr)

  • "Legal Ethics Seminar," Lorman Educational Services, Santa Ana, August, 2005

  • "Lost in Cyberspace: Ethics for the Online Lawyer," San Diego County Bar Association Legal Ethics Committee, June, 2005

  • "Developments in the Law of Lawyering," ABA National Legal Malpractice Conference, April, 2005 (with John DeVault and Joe Garin)

  • "Do You Have a Conflict?" San Diego County Bar Association Legal Malpractice Committee, April, 2005 (with David Carr)

  • "Ethical Law Office Management," Northern San Diego County Legal Professionals Association, April, 2005

Teaching and Instruction

 

Heather L. Rosing

San Diego, California
Klinedinst San Diego

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Practice Areas

Bankruptcy

Professional Liability

Admitted To Bar

California and U.S. District Court (1996)

Bankruptcy Court, Southern and Central Districts of California (1996)

Supreme Court of Illinois (1997)

Education

University of Illinois (B.S., 1993)

Northwestern University School of Law (J.D., 1996)

Santa Clara University (1994)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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