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A great way to serve the LGBTQI+ legal community and become more involved in BALIF is to join BALIF’s Board of Directors. BALIF’s Directors are elected by the BALIF membership and each Director holds office for two years. Any BALIF member is welcome to run for the Board or nominate another BALIF member. BALIF seeks a board that reflects the diversity of our LGBTQI+ legal community.
To run for the Board or nominate someone else, please send a candidate statement of up to 250 words to our secretary (SECRETARY@BALIF.ORG) and BALIF’s Administrative Director (BALIF@BALIF.ORG) by Monday, April 13, 2026 at 5:00 pm.
If you are interested in receiving an endorsement from the Nominating Committee, please submit your candidate statement no later than Friday, April 3, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. to nominations@balif.org .
BALIF & Charles Houston Bar Association Celebrate Black History Month
Join us for a dynamic conversation with distinguished speakers who will reflect on their career paths, the challenges and opportunities of navigating elite legal spaces, and the responsibility—and possibility—of leading authentically.
BALIF Presents- Off the Record: A Judicial Reception
Please join members of BALIF and our esteemed judiciary for a judicial reception at Hanson Bridgett LLP, 425 Market Street, San Francisco on Tuesday, February 24, 2026 from 6:30-8:00pm. Enjoy an evening of meaningful connection, engaging conversation, and community as we gather with leaders from the bench and bar. We look forward to seeing you there!
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BALIF Condemns Ongoing Federal Immigration Activity and Shootings in Minneapolis
We should all be outraged by what is unfolding in Minneapolis, which follows over a year of unprecedented immigration enforcement activity that has seen far too many people targeted, brutalized, and disappeared. Renee Good and Alex Pretti should be alive today....
BALIF Condemns Supreme Court Decision Affirming Trump Administration’s Discriminatory Passport Policies
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court granted a Trump Administration request to stay a preliminary injunction in Orr v. Trump, allowing the government to enforce a discriminatory passport policy against transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people. As Justice Jackson noted...
BALIF stands in full support of Lambda Legal attorney Carl Charles
Dear BALIF Members, BALIF stands in full support of Lambda Legal attorney Carl Charles in response to the outrageous federal indictment filed against him earlier this month in the Middle District of Alabama. Mr. Charles is a highly respected civil rights lawyer who...
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About BALIF
Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF) is the nation’s oldest and largest association of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTQI) persons in the field of law. Founded in 1980, BALIF represents its members’ interests in the wider San Francisco Bay Area. BALIF members and supporters include San Francisco Bay Area judges, lawyers, law students and legal workers.
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