Title: BALIF September Thursday Happy Hour and Law Student Mixer
Location: The Triple Crown, 1760 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Description: BALIF September Thursday Happy Hour and Law Student Mixer.

Come Join BALIF at our monthly Happy Hour to welcome back all of the Bay Area law students for a fun evening of drinks, food, and fun.

Location: The Triple Crown, 1760 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Date: Thursday, September 9, 2010

Time: 6 – 8:30pm

Complimentary Food and Cocktails (limited)

Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2010-09-09
End Time: 20:30

You are invited to join us on

Thursday, October 14th, 2010 in San Francisco

BALIF presents the Rainmaker Institute…

Proven Marketing Strategies for Today’s Rainmaker:

Increasing Revenues and Referrals Using Networking,

Internet Marketing and Social Media In the New Age
*Includes 1 hour of MCLE Ethics Credit for California attorneys

BALIF has put together the ground-breaking RAINMAKER INSTITUTE to help solo practitioner and small firm attorneys generate lawyer-to-lawyer referrals, word-of-mouth, and new business. Presenter Stephen Fairley is a nationally recognized small firm marketing expert and has trained over 7,000 attorneys in the secrets of making rain.

Join us for a full-day seminar on Thursday, October 14th, 2010 at the BASF building to learn:

• Proven strategies for building a 7-figure lifestyle law firm
• The 7 ways to find new clients fast and how to select the best ones for your law firm
• How to build a network of over 30 new referral sources in the next 6 months
• Effective tools to maximize your networking efforts
• How to stand up and stand out from the crowd and the competition—using your uniqueness as a competitive advantage
• How to build a massive platform in under a year using social media like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Avvo, and YouTube
• And much, much more…

BALIF discounted rate: $295 ($395 after Sep. 30).  Use the promo code “BALIF 2010” when registering.

For more information or to register, please visit: www.RainmakerRetreat.com/balif

Or email: membership@balif.org

Unveiling the BALIF 30th Anniversary American Apparel T-Shirt

It’s the American Apparel Fine Jersey Short Sleeve T-Shirt – the softest, smoothest, best-looking T-shirt available anywhere.  And now, you can get the official BALIF 30th Anniversary edition.  The shirts are available in Cranberry, Teal, Purple, and Orange. And they come in S, M, L, and XL (in Men’s and Women’s sizes). Only $20 a pop.  Shipping via Priority Mail is $4.  Order now: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=207415

BALIF is particularly interested in hearing from attorneys (1) involved in (or wishing to be more involved in) the American Bar Association and/or (2) those interested in shepherding BALIF’s amicus committee (which finds cases for which an amicus brief would advance LGBT or other minority rights, supervises the writing of briefs, and makes decisions to sign on to other organizations’ briefs).

Interested applicants should send a resume and a letter detailing interest in the position to chair@balif.org by close of business on Monday, September 6.

Please consider joining BALIF’s Conference of Delegates committee.
The committee presents resolutions and rules on other resolutions at the annual conference, which takes place this year in Monterey on September 24, 25 and 26. If you cannot attend the conference, you can still join the committee and help BALIF decide how it will vote on the resolutions. CLE credits will be given for each hour you participate in the resolution discussions/meetings. The first meeting will take place on August 23 from 6-9pm. Dan Dean is the chair of this committee and he is happy to answer any questions you may have. Please contact him at DanDeanSF@gmail.com.

Title: Prop. 8 Awards Reception and Post-Perry “Debrief” Discussion
Location: Keker & Van Nest,710 Sansome Street San Francisco, CA 94111.
Description: Join BALIF and BASF’s Barristers Diversity Committee for a Prop. 8 awards reception and Post-Perry “Debrief” discussion on Friday, August 20th.

Please Register here: Click to Register!

Join BALIF and BASF’s Barristers Diversity Committee for a Prop. 8 awards
reception and Post-Perry “Debrief” discussion on Friday, August 20th.

BALIF and BASF will be honoring Jerome Roth, Mark Conrad and Miriam Seifter
of Munger, Tolles and Olson who represented BALIF, BASF and other groups in
an amicus filing in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case. Following the awards,
members of the Perry trial team from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, the San
Francisco City Attorney’s office and others will provide an inside
perspective on the Prop 8 trial, Judge Walker’s decision, and what comes
next as the Prop. 8 federal challenge moves forward.

The event will take place on Friday, August 20th, from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at
Keker & Van Nest,710 Sansome Street San Francisco, CA 94111.  There is no
cost to attend, but please register for the event at
http://www.sfbar.org/calendar/eventdetail.aspx?id=X100093/X100093

Thank you to Keker & Van Nest for their generous sponsorship of this event!
Join us on August 20th for food, drink, celebration and discussion!

Perry v. Schwarzenegger Decision Today! Join BALIF in Community Rally! The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California announced today that it is releasing its decision in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the federal court case addressing the constitutionality of California Proposition 8. Whatever the ruling, please join BALIF and other LGBT groups at the corner of Castro and Market streets in San Francisco at 5:00 p.m. for a community rally, followed by a march to City Hall. More details are forthcoming. Get ready to march and show your solidarity! The District Court Announcement is available here.

Title: Santa Clara County Minority Bars and BAMSCP Summer Associates Mixer
Location: Fenwick & West LLP – Mountain View ,CA
Description: Santa Clara County Minority Bars and BAMSCP Summer Associates Mixer

The Diversity Committee of the Santa Clara County Bar Association is hosting a special summer associate mixer with co-sponsors The Rainbow Committee of the SCCBA, The Women Lawyers Committee of the SCCBA, Asian Pacific Bar Association of the Silicon Valley, Black Lawyers Association California Minority Council Program, La Raza Lawyers of Santa Clara County, South Asian Bar Association of Northern California, and the Vietnamese American Bar Association of Northern California.

The event will take place on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 from
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at:

Fenwick & West LLP
801 California Street
Mountain View ,CA

This mixer is a social event designed for attorneys to meet and greet minority attorneys working on the Peninsula . The event also serves to welcome the 2010-11 Bay Area Minority Summer Clerkship Employers, Minority Summer Associates, and introduce them to the Santa Clara County Bar Association. Register here for this free event.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2010-08-04

Join BALIF’s “Connections” Mentoring Program!
In case you haven’t responded to recent e-mails inviting you to become part of BALIF’s exciting new mentoring program, “Connections,” the time to sign up is now!  We are in the roll-out process and will be completing the initial pairings of mentors and mentees by mid-August.  Law students and lawyers can participate.  Young and established lawyers can be mentors to students, and students and newer lawyers can be mentees.  If you’d like to be part of connections, please advise Dennis Raglin, the Young Lawyers & Students Committee Chair, at dennis.raglin@sdma.com as soon as you can with whether you’d like to be a mentor or a mentee and whether you have a specialty and gender preference for your pairing.  You can also e-mail him with any questions about the program.  AND SAVE THE DATE of September 23 at 6:30 p.m. for the first mentoring get together where we will discuss goals for the program and for making the most of LGBT mentoring!

Title: South Bay LGBT Happy Hour Mixer/Summer Associate Welcome
Location: The Fire House Grill, East Palo Alto
Description: South Bay LGBT Happy Hour Mixer/Summer Associate Welcome

Please join BALIF and The Rainbow Committee of the SCCBA for the South Bay Summer Happy Hour and LGBT Summer Associate Welcome Mixer.
As the end of the summer approaches please join us as the Bay Area LGBT Bar Associations join forces to host this fun and exciting event in the heart of Silicon Valley .
Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Time: 6pm – 8:30pm
Location: The Fire House Grill, 1765 E. Bayshore Rd Ste. A, East Palo Alto , CA 94306
Cost: Free- Complimentary Appetizers and Drink Specials
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2010-07-20