Title: The BALIF Mentorship Program March Happy Hour Event at Home Restaurant, 2100 Market Street !
Location: Home Restaurant, 2100 Market Street
Description: BALIF Mentorship Happy Hour

The BALIF Mentorship Program March Happy Hour Event at Home Restaurant, 2100 Market Street !

BALIF is hosting a follow-up event to November 2009’s wildly successful speed mentoring program on Thursday, March 11 from 6-8:30pm at Home Restaurant, 2100 Market Street . You will not want to miss out on this exciting evening! There will be a discussion activity at the beginning of the evening to reconnect you with your mentoring connections and to help you make new connections. If you missed the November 2009 event, come and make that first connection!

This is a wonderful opportunity for BALIF members from various backgrounds and diverse skill levels to meet, confer, gain fresh perspectives, and to build lasting professional and social relationships. Again, there will be no commitment beyond this event and contact lists will be exchanged after the event so you can follow-up with your connections as you wish.” Hope to see you there.

Free appetizers and drinks will be provided.

Fabulous Castro Location to be announced soon!

ALL are welcome–LGBT or ally, legal professional or student, mentor/mentee or just plain good-time-seeker.”

Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2010-03-11

Title: Breaking In: A Workshop on Becoming a Law Professor, Adjunct or Administrator
Location: Golden Gate University School of Law
Description: Breaking In: A Workshop on Becoming a Law Professor, Adjunct or Administrator

Sunday, March 21st 10:00 am-3:00 pm
Golden Gate University School of Law, 536 Mission Street , San Francisco , CA

Co-Sponsored by Society of American Law Teachers–SALT and
Golden Gate University School of Law

Breaking In: A workshop on becoming a law professor, adjunct, or administrator

Come to this exciting program to learn how to “break in” to a career in the legal academy. In addition to reviewing the roles and responsibilities of administrators, adjuncts, clinical, legal writing, and doctrinal faculty, we will provide an opportunity to ask questions of the experts! And each participant will go home with a packet of job descriptions to help you make some important decisions.

Breakfast and lunch will be included in your $35.00 registration fee. Golden Gate University School of Law students and graduates register for free by emailing Eluzzi@saltlaw.org.

Register on-line at: https://www.saltlaw.org/conferences/view/33

(You will need to log in to the SALTLAW.org website in order to register on-line.)
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2010-03-21

Title: Transposium at UC Hastings
Location: U.C. Hastings, Louis B. Mayer Lounge
Description: Please mark your calendars for U.C. Hastings’ 2nd Transposium–UC Hastings’ second symposium on transgender legal issues.

When: Thursday, March 18, 2010 – 9:00am – 8:00pm
Where: U.C. Hastings, Louis B. Mayer Lounge, 198 McAllister Street , San Francisco , CA
Panel topics will include: Transgender Law 101, Trans Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Foster Care System, Disability & Elder Law in the Trans Community.

More details to follow.
Start Time: 9:00
Date: 2010-03-18

Title: Corporations and International Law Symposium
Location: Santa Clara University
Description: Corporations and International Law Symposium

Santa Clara University’s upcoming symposium, the “Corporations and International Law” will take place on March 12-13, 2010.

The Symposium will feature internationally renowned academics and
practitioners at the forefront of current issues regarding corporations and international law. The conference will take place in the Benson Memorial Center ’s Williman Room on the Santa Clara University campus.

The Symposium will feature four panels on the Alien Tort Claims Act, Global Corporate Social Responsibility, Bilateral Investment Treaties and the regulatory implications of the United Nations’ “Protect, Respect and Remedy” framework. Jose Alvarez, the Keynote speaker and Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law at the New York University School of Law, will speak on “Corporations as Subjects of International Law.”

Additionally, U.C. Davis Law Professor Anupam Chander will give a
lunchtime address on “The Social Responsibility of Information
Technology Companies.”

For more information on the Symposium’s topic, participants and
schedule, the Symposium’s website address is:
http://law.scu.edu/corplaw/.

Start Date: 2010-03-12
End Date: 2010-03-13

Title: BASF Barristers’ 2nd Annual Crystal Ball
Location: San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center
Description: The Second Annual Crystal Ball
March 20, 2010: 7:00 pm – 12:00 am
http://www.sfbar.org/calendar/eventdetail.aspx?id=B107301/B107301

Please join the Barristers Club on Saturday, March 20, 2010 in your semi-formal attire and be ready to dance the night away while enjoying complimentary appetizers, wine & beer. Or you could spend your evening trying to outbid your colleagues at the Crystal Ball Silent Auction. The auction will benefit the ” San Francisco Law Academy ” and “School-To-College”, mentoring programs that encourage Mission and Balboa High School students to attend college. The students tour universities, and receive individual counseling to guide them through the college application process. The mission is to provide insight and opportunity to under-served, ethnically diverse high school students.

Every year, the Barristers Club maintains and runs its own community and pro bono programs. These programs bring exposure to the legal profession for young students, while encouraging diversity and participation in pro bono events. The Crystal Ball is our latest event to continue those efforts!

Individual tickets are now just $70, prices will go up in a few weeks so get yours now!

Firms may sponsor at $1000 for 12 tickets. Please contact Dan Lavery for sponsorship information.

We hope to see you there!

Location
The Green Room
San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center
San Francisco, CA
Cost
Guest Ticket $70.00
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-03-20

Title: BASF Barristers’ 2nd Annual Crystal Ball
Location: San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center
Description: BASF Barristers Club Presents:
The Second Annual Crystal Ball
March 20, 2010: 7:00 pm – 12:00 am
http://www.sfbar.org/calendar/eventdetail.aspx?id=B107301/B107301

Please join the Barristers Club on Saturday, March 20, 2010 in your semi-formal attire and be ready to dance the night away while enjoying complimentary appetizers, wine & beer. Or you could spend your evening trying to outbid your colleagues at the Crystal Ball Silent Auction. The auction will benefit the ” San Francisco Law Academy ” and “School-To-College”, mentoring programs that encourage Mission and Balboa High School students to attend college. The students tour universities, and receive individual counseling to guide them through the college application process. The mission is to provide insight and opportunity to under-served, ethnically diverse high school students.

Every year, the Barristers Club maintains and runs its own community and pro bono programs. These programs bring exposure to the legal profession for young students, while encouraging diversity and participation in pro bono events. The Crystal Ball is our latest event to continue those efforts!

Individual tickets are now just $70, prices will go up in a few weeks so get yours now!

Firms may sponsor at $1000 for 12 tickets. Please contact Dan Lavery for sponsorship information.

We hope to see you there!

Location
The Green Room
San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center
San Francisco, CA
Cost
Guest Ticket $70.00
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-Mar-20

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Title: Pearl Party-BALIF’s Annual Dinner
Location: Westin St. Francis Hotel
Description: BALIF Celebrates 30 years!
Come and join us for drinks dinner and dancing at the Westin St. Francis Hotel!!
Date: 2010-02-26

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FIRST, YOU MUST BE A MEMBER OF THE ABA .  THE DEADLINE FOR APPLYING IS MARCH 1.

Here are some helpful tips:

1.     The application is all online.  You can access it at
http://www.abanet.org/scripts/nomination10/appointments.jsp

2.     Scroll down to the bottom of Steve Zack’s letter to review the
available committees.

3.     Fill out the application online.  It is important that YOU fill
out an application to show interest in the appointment.

4.     It is very helpful to have others nominate and support your
application.  Here are some ideas:
a.     Your national ethnic bar association can send in a list of those they support.  Be sure to be part of that list.
b.     Any friends that you have in leadership at the ABA
or your local/state bar association.
c.     The committee/council/commission that you want to
join can also advocate for you.

5.     Supporting nominations will need to go online to do so, just
like your own application.

The more people/organizations that you have supporting your nomination, the better your chances.  Committee appointments are very competitive for some committees.

WE NEED YOU!!!!

Dear Members:

We urgently need your help to sign letters in support of our friend, Magistrate Judge Edward Chen of California , whose nomination by President Obama to the federal court, Northern District of California, has been attacked despite having an excellent record as a magistrate judge.

It just takes 15 seconds to send Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada a letter in support of Judge Chen through an online form at http://FairJudges.net.

AABA has invested considerable efforts to raise awareness of the absence of an Asian American judge in the Northern District of California. In addition to an op-ed, “An Indefensible Lack of Diversity on the U.S. District Court,” by then-AABA President Celia Lee and Judge Ken Kawaichi published in the San Francisco Chronicle in Feb. 2009, our leadership and members have played roles in encouraging our Senators and the President to appoint people of color to the bench.

President Obama and our Senators did just that. And we need to finish what we helped start and move the Senate to bring Ed Chen’s nomination to a full Senate vote.

Judge Chen’s character has been attacked despite his mainstream values and a demonstrated record serving as a balanced, fair and unbiased jurist. He has received extremely positive support from a diverse group of individuals and organizations, including a “Unanimously Well Qualified” rating by the American Bar Association.

The President had to re-nominate Judge Chen on Jan. 20 because the Senate did not take a full vote on the nomination by the end of last year, despite it being approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee in October. The President originally nominated Judge Chen to the federal court in Aug. 2009 on recommendation from U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California .

Among his numerous awards, Judge Chen was voted “Judge of the Year” by the Barristers Club of San Francisco in 2007 and was California Law Review’s “Alumnus of the Year” in 2002. He has received endorsements from a wide range of groups and individuals, including federal prosecutors, city attorneys, police officer associations, and numerous national and local civic and community organizations. Judge Chen was also part of the historic legal team that overturned the conviction of Fred Korematsu more than 40 years after the fact in a coram nobis case.

Judge Chen’s nomination deserves a straight up-or-down vote in the Senate and you can help make that happen by sending a letter to Majority Leader Reid.

Complete the very short online form at http://FairJudges.net and your letter to Majority Leader Reid with be sent at no expense to you. And then please email your friends and contacts asking them to sign on to letters as well. You can use the email template here: http://www.box.net/shared/f796knb372.

Sincerely,
AABA Officers & Board

Please join BAYMEC and the LGBT community at a Santa Clara County District Attorney Election Forum

Tuesday, February 9, 2010
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center (ballroom)
938 The Alameda San Jose, 95126

Discussion, Questions and Answers with:
Dolores Carr, Santa Clara County District Attorneyand
Jeff Rosen, Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney

Who will best serve the LGBT Community?
What are the candidates’ thoughts about Hate Crimes?
Who should be the next Chief of Law Enforcement for Santa Clara County ?
How is same-sex domestic violence being treated by law enforcement?
How does the Criminal Justice System treat the LGBT Community?
How is the transgender community being treated in the criminal justice system?

Come and ask the hard questions of both candidates!

For additional info, e-mail BAYMEC@gmail.com or call 408.486.9049.