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title: Carolin Shining
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# Carolin Shining

*Carolin K. Shining is a solo litigator licensed in California and Illinois and admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Since founding*Shining Law Firm*in 2014, she has focused on personal injury, toxic torts, consumer class actions, legal ethics, trust litigation, and commercial disputes. She has been active in State Bar initiatives since 2018 and regularly speaks at national and regional legal conferences, including CAALA Vegas, where she served as a 2024 ethics panel moderator and in 2025 as a speaker on legal ethics.*

### Articles written by this author:

## [State Bar CTAPP trust account mandatory compliance reviews](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2026-february/state-bar-ctapp-trust-account-mandatory-compliance-reviews "State Bar CTAPP trust account mandatory compliance reviews")

The 2025 changes to the State Bar’s prosecutorial rules are monumental

[Carolin Shining](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/carolin-shining "Carolin Shining")

[2026 February](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2026-february)