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JDC Receives Holiday Surprise

The Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) of The Bar Association of San Francisco received a very generous holiday surprise from Weiss Associates, an Emeryville-based Environmental Science and Engineering firm. Agata Sulczynski, JD, Senior Project Manager for Weiss delivered the check…

Increase Your Referral Sources and Make an Impact in the Community

When a lawyer decides to join the panel of experienced attorneys through the Lawyer Referral and Information Service, their motivation is usually to increase client referrals and belong to a program that assists real people with real legal needs.…

Compassion in Conflict: BASF Offers Conflict Intervention Service in Affordable Housing

The Bar Association of San Francisco’s Conflict Intervention Service (CIS) is a grant-funded project of the City and County of San Francisco in partnership with BASF’s Bay Area Mediation Services Program. This innovative program utilizes skilled mediators with diverse…

Four Reasons to Attend the Solo and Small Firm Conference

The Solo and Small Firm Section of The Bar Association of San Francisco will host its Second Annual Conference, offering three hours of MCLE on Thursday, February 8. Check out these four reasons why…

Tax Reform Highlights for Those Who Will Die One Day

Estate Tax: Give a Little More to Your Loved Ones Or lawmakers have again reduced taxes on intergenerational wealth transfers. The exclusion from estate, gift, and generation-skipping tax is now $11.2 million per person ($22.4 million for couples). The…

Day in Court Program Expands

As part of the Justice & Diversity Center’s ongoing commitment to providing San Francisco’s youth with positive educational opportunities, this year the Day In Court program was expanded by bringing students to criminal courts at the Hall of Justice. In…

Meet Nemo: San Francisco Unified Family Court’s Facility Dog

Family Law Corner: Schwarzenegger and Shriver: Failure to Terminate

… Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver were all over the news in 2011 when they started their divorce amid revelations that Schwarzenegger fathered a child with their housekeeper. All eyes were on them as they faced dividing their $400 million…

Legal Ethics Corner: The Weinstein Scandal and Rule 3-110

Amid the growing allegations of the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct scandal, it recently came to light that Weinstein’s former attorney, David Boies, had agreed to contract with a private investigator firm, Black Cube, on Weinstein’s behalf. Black Cube performed work…

Estate Planning Corner: Subtrusts, Tax Planning and More

When is a Win not a Win? Leland Babbitt’s estate was divided into two subtrusts upon his death–one for his wife Mary Lynne and the other for his daughter from a prior marriage, Carol. Mary Lynne was entitled to the…

Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on the Legal Industry

One of the hottest technology trends is artificial intelligence (AI), where machines are programmed to crunch large sets of data and learn to adapt and react to the data. All industries have been impacted in some way by the rise…