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Recent Press Releases
- January 7, 2021: BASF and JDC Strongly Condemn Violence at the U.S. Capitol, Call on Vice President and Congress to Take All Lawful Action to Constrain the President's Unlawful Conduct
- December 23, 2020: Justice & Diversity Center Announces 2021 Board of Directors
- November 12, 2020: Seven Attorneys to Be Honored at Bar’s Annual Membership Luncheon
- November 10, 2020: BASF Provides Free Legal Services to Break Barriers to Entry under San Francisco’s Cannabis Equity Program
- November 9, 2020: Kamala Harris Makes History As Vice President-Elect
- October 26, 2020: The Barristers Club Nominates Directors for 2021 Board
- September 22, 2020: The Bar Association of San Francisco Nominates Officer and Directors for 2021 Board
- September 19, 2020: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Trailblazer for Women’s Rights, Passes at 87
- July 24, 2020: The Americans with Disabilities Act Turns 30
- July 22, 2020: Nominations Are Now Being Accepted for 2021 Barristers Club Board of Directors
- July 14, 2020: BASF Criminal Justice Task Force Urges Progress on Body-Worn Camera Policy
- July 14, 2020: BASF Criminal Justice Task Force Urges Placement of Proposed Amendment to City Charter Concerning Police Department Staffing Levels on November Ballot
- July 14, 2020: BASF Criminal Justice Task Force Urges San Francisco Courts to Restore ‘Zero Bail’ As COVID-19 Cases in Jails Rise
- June 25, 2020: COVID-19 Frontline Workers Project Expands to Help More Essential Workers
- June 25, 2020: Measure to Overturn Ban on Affirmative Action Headed for the November Ballot
- June 17, 2020: Join the Legal Community in a 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge
- June 12, 2020: BASF Criminal Justice Task Force Sends Letter to Mayor Breed, Recommending Steps for Police Reform
- June 2, 2020: Black Lives Matter: A Statement of Solidarity
- May 18, 2020: BASF Joins Voices with Lawyers Allied to Uphold the Rule of Law
- April 10, 2020: Letter from BASF's Estate Planning, Probate and Trusts Section to Governor Newsom Regarding Notarization during the Public Health Emergency
- April 9, 2020: Letter to Chief Justice and Committee of Bar Examiners Regarding the Impact of COVID-19 on the July 2020 Bar Examination
- April 6, 2020: Letter from the Bar Association of San Francisco About the Release of California Inmates due to COVID-19
- March 27, 2020: Professional Conduct In Times of Crisis Calls for Heightened Civility
- March 24, 2020: Racism and Xenophobia Are Deplorable and Undermine Collective Efforts to Fight the Coronavirus Pandemic
- March 20, 2020: We're Here For You: Our Business Continuity Statement
- March 9, 2020 (with updates through April 2): Protecting Our Community: How BASF is Responding to COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
- March 9, 2020: ICE Continues to Make Courthouse Arrests, Undermining Safe Access to Justice
- March 1, 2020: First In-House Counsel Awards Recognize Legal Leaders in Technology, Journalism, and the Share Economy
- January 31, 2020: BASF Releases Evaluations for Election Candidates for San Francisco Superior Court Judge
- January 23, 2020: Jurisdiction for Mesa Verde Detention Facility Cases Moved From San Francisco to Van Nuys, Impacting Access to Counsel
Latest Blog Posts
San Francisco: Two Pandemics, One Hundred Years Apart
For my last column for San Francisco Attorney, I wanted to explore how the 1918 flu pandemic—the last global respiratory pandemic to reach San Francisco—affected our bar association and compare that to COVID-19, more than a hundred years later. Established in…
Pandemic Forces Courts and Lawyers to Reimagine Proceedings
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo had pre-qualified over two hundred prospective jurors in anticipation of the court’s first in-person civil jury trial since the coronavirus pandemic. She used a tape measure to make sure all twelve jurors and…
Barristers 2020: Year in Review
As I look back on 2020, it makes me think of how bar associations have always held a very special space in my heart. When I was growing up in Hawaii, my mom spent thirteen years as executive director of…
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San Francisco Attorney Magazine
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BASF Bulletin
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This annual publication is a leading Alternative Dispute Resolution resource guide, listing mediators, arbitrators and special masters in Northern California.
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