Gary Seiser, JD, CWLS

Sr. Deputy

Office of County Counsel, Juvenile Dependency Division

N9 ETHICS IN CHILD WELFARE PROCEEDINGS: CONFLICTS, COMPETENCE, AND CONFIDENTIALITY

Gary Seiser is one of California's leading experts on juvenile dependency law and practice, and a certified Child Welfare Law Specialist (National Association of Counsel for Children [NACC]). He is also a member of the California Blue Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care, and the California State Advisory Board and Examination Workgroup, NACC Child Welfare Law Attorney Certification Project. He has worked in the juvenile dependency field for over 20 years, the first five of which were as a Riverside County, California, Superior Court Commissioner hearing juvenile dependency cases. 

Mr. Seiser is currently a supervising deputy with the Office of County Counsel, Juvenile Dependency Division, in San Diego, California, and he has handled over 50 published appellate decisions, including co-author of the leading treatise California Juvenile Courts Practice and Procedure (Matthew Bender & Co.), which is updated annually and has been cited by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the California Supreme Court, and numerous California appellate courts.

Mr. Seiser is a frequent speaker at conferences on a wide variety of topics related to child welfare law and practice, including ethics and standard of care, and has trained for the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, the California Center for Judicial Education and Research, the California Judges Association, and the Public Child Welfare Training Academy, Southern California Region.