I have recently been confronted with the issue of what to do with a client who speaks English as a second language (ESL). The ESL client will tell me they understand everything I have communicated to them regarding an important…
Summer Diversity Reception: African American Partners & Summer Associates Reception
We cordially invite you to attend the African American Partners and Associates Reception, welcoming African American Summer Associates to the Bay Area. All attorneys and law students are invited to join this wonderful event. BASF recognizes the benefits that minority…
Summer Diversity Reception: LGBT Partners, Associates and Counsel Reception
BASF has been a pioneer among bar associations working to ensure workplace equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) lawyers. Recognizing the benefits that LGBT law students and young lawyers receive when afforded opportunities to network with other LGBT…
Stanford Report on Right to Civil Counsel Shows Success of Leveraging Millions of Dollars of Pro Bono Assistance and Cost Savings to City
Board of Supervisors President David Chiu joined Stanford Law School’s Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law in releasing its report on San Francisco’s Right to Civil Counsel Pilot Program. In 2012, Supervisor Chiu sponsored legislation declaring San…
National Association of Women Judges Kicks Off Civics Education Awareness
A groundbreaking partnership formed by California judicial leaders and Hollywood has won an Emmy Award for the National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ). The film “Fair and Free”, conceived, written and produced by award-winning television writer and producer Jonathan Shapiro…
Excel for Litigators: Tips to Present Numbers and Calculations at Trial
This article was first published by Michael Kelleher on the Cogent Legal Blog at cogentlegal.com/blog/2014/06/excel-for-litigators/ Litigators must master the presentation of numbers and calculations in trial because numbers often prove damages and/or liability. However, showing and explaining numbers and calculations in trial…
License Assumed While Related Agreements Rejected
In In re Physiotherapy Holdings, Inc., 506 B.R. 619 (Bankr. D. Del. 2014), the bankruptcy court permitted the debtor to assume a license agreement but reject other related agreements. In Physiotherapy Holdings, the debtor licensed software under several agreements. Pursuant to Bankruptcy Code Section…
How Women Lawyers Can Chart a Different Course (Part 3)
This is the third of a three-part series of articles with tips on How Women Lawyers Can Chart a Different Course by Kimberly Alford Rice. Read Part 1 here: How Women Lawyers Can Chart a Different Course (Part 1) Read Part 2…
How Women Lawyers Can Chart a Different Course (Part 2)
This is the second of a three-part series of articles with tips on How Women Lawyers Can Chart a Different Course by Kimberly Alford Rice. Read the first part here. Despite disappointing reports we hear on gender equality, the pay gap and…
How Women Lawyers Can Chart a Different Course (Part 1)
This is the first of a three-part series of articles with tips on How Women Lawyers Can Chart a Different Course by Kimberly Alford Rice. For all the chatter, studies, and disheartening stats we read on where women in the law rank…
LRIS: Echoes in the Community
The Bar Association of San Francisco’s Lawyer Referral & Information Service refers individuals and businesses to experienced attorneys and appropriate legal resources. LRIS client, Krys Schempp, shares her experience about how the Lawyer Referral & Information Service helped her find…
Mediating Environmental Disputes, Part I: Addressing the Long Term in the Present
Disputes over environmental degradation and natural re-sources were a growth industry in the 1970’s. New federal statutes and agencies provided focused ways to address environmental harms, but environmental litigation has remained expensive and involved. Fact-intensive and document-laden, it requires investment…