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Nixon Peabody Honored by ACLU for Probono Work for LGBT Students

DATE: DATE: July 29, 2014 DATE: October 1, 2020
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California recently presented a team of Nixon Peabody attorneys with the 2014 LGBT Advocacy Award in recognition of their pro bono efforts. The Nixon Peabody team represented students in the Hesperia Unified School District, specifically the Sultana High School Gay-Straight…
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Former BASF President Appointed to California Court of Appeal

DATE: DATE: July 29, 2014 DATE: October 1, 2020
California Governor Brown recently announced the appointment of San Francisco Chief Deputy City Attorney Terry Stewart to serve as a justice on California’s Court of Appeal. The announcement was made at San Francisco’s LGBT Pride Festival in June. Stewart served as BASF President in 1999, where she…
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Six Law Students Chosen to Receive Bay Area Minority Law Student Scholarship

DATE: DATE: July 28, 2014 DATE: October 1, 2020
The Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) of The Bar Association of San Francisco recently announced the recipients of its 2014 Bay Area Minority Law Student Scholarships. Thanks to the generosity of donors, six scholarships will be awarded to minority students…
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Lewis Feinberg Latest Firm to Join Leaders Circle

DATE: DATE: July 28, 2014 DATE: October 1, 2020
BASF is pleased to introduce its newest Leader Circle firm – Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson, P.C. Founded in 1983, Lewis Feinberg is a 17-attorney law firm based in Oakland. The firm is nationally recognized for fighting to improve conditions for workers all over the United…
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Bay Area Firms and Companies Help Change Lives Through Summer Internship Program

DATE: DATE: July 28, 2014 DATE: October 1, 2020
Partnering with the San Francisco Unified School District, the Justice & Diversity Center’s Law Academy program encourages and increases career opportunities for underserved and ethnically diverse students in Balboa High School in San Francisco. Creative and inspiring curriculum is built into several core classes where junior and senior…
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Circuits Split Over Health Exchange Subsidies

DATE: DATE: July 24, 2014 DATE: October 1, 2020
In a development that may ultimately make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, two federal appellate rulings were issued on Tuesday that took contradictory stances on a key element of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”). At issue is whether…
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Free Screening of Award-Winning Documentary: The House I Live In

DATE: DATE: July 9, 2014 DATE: October 1, 2020
Join Charlotte Street Films and the Los Angeles Criminal Courts Bar Association for a free screening of the award-winning documentary The House I Live In, on Friday July 11 at the Delancey Street Foundation in San Francisco. Following the screening…
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Bingham McCutchen Hosts Oscar-Winning Filmmaker for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration

DATE: DATE: July 1, 2014 DATE: October 1, 2020
To celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, BASF Leader Circle Firm Bingham McCutchen’s West Coast offices welcomed Academy Award-winning director Steven Okazaki and Margaret Zachow Wetherbee, curator for the Japanese American National Museum. Clients and industry contacts joined Bingham lawyers and staff for a screening of Okazaki’s documentary “Days of…
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Antitrust Attorney Branches Out to Protect Consumers

DATE: DATE: July 1, 2014 DATE: October 1, 2020
The Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) is pleased to spotlight Jubilee Menzies of Andrus Anderson as our Volunteer of the Month for July 2014. Menzies began volunteering with JDC in 2011 with the Consumer Project, which provides legal advice, assistance and limited or full-scope representation to low-income consumers…
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Meet Tyler Hill: Fall 2015 Destination is Law School

DATE: DATE: July 1, 2014 DATE: October 1, 2020
Diversity Pipeline Programs Manager Nicole Britton-Snyder recently caught up with Tyler Hill, a participant in BASF’s Destination Law School (DLS) program who is currently applying to law school for fall 2015. Tyler, who graduated from UC Berkeley in 2013, spoke about her expectations for law school, what she hopes to do with her…
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2011 Scholarship Recipient Antonio Ingram: Next Stop Morrison & Foerster

DATE: DATE: June 30, 2014 DATE: October 1, 2020
BASF’s 2011 Bay Area Minority Law Student Scholarship recipient Antonio Ingram graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law this past May. Over the last three years, Ingram has shown why he was so deserving of the scholarship and why it was such a great investment by donors to the scholarship…
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Interesting News from the World of Estate Planning

DATE: DATE: June 30, 2014 DATE: October 1, 2020
Whitney Houston: The Burden of Inheritance Whitney Houston’s mother and sister-in-law recently filed a petition to change the terms of Houston’s will, which was last updated nearly 20 years ago. They want to delay the distribution of millions to Houston’s only child, Bobbi Kristina, 19, in…
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