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Recent Press Releases
- March 19, 2021: BASF and JDC Condemn Racism and Xenophobia
- 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, 25, 2020: Justice & Diversity Center Honors Outstanding Volunteers
- August 3, 2020: Justice & Diversity Center Announces Five Recipients of Bay Area Minority Law Student Scholarships
- June 25, 2020: COVID-19 Frontline Workers Project Expands to Help More Essential Workers
- June 2, 2020: Black Lives Matter: A Statement of Solidarity
- April 7, 2020: Service Continuity at the Justice & Diversity Center
- April 6, 2020: JDC Joins Call on EOIR to Expedite Release for Immigrant Detainees, Close Physical Courtrooms, and Give Detainees Option for Telephonic Hearings
- April 2, 2020: Legal and Social Service Organizations Urge Judicial Council to Protect Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
- March 24, 2020: Racism and Xenophobia Are Deplorable and Undermine Collective Efforts to Fight the Coronavirus Pandemic
- March 20, 2020: We Are Here For You: Our Business Continuity Statement
- March 13, 2020: Legal Services Providers and Community Benefit Organizations Ask for Moratorium on Evictions During Coronavirus Emergency
- March 9, 2020: ICE Continues to Make Courthouse Arrests, Undermining Safe Access to Justice
- January 23, 2020: Jurisdiction for Mesa Verde Detention Facility Cases Moved From San Francisco to Van Nuys, Impacting Access to Counsel
Recent Blog Posts
Federal Pro Bono Project Team Measures Success One Client at a Time
Lawyers often measure success by whether their client was made whole or how much money was at stake. But that kind of assessment oversimplifies the legal work being done by the Federal Pro Bono Project, a project of the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Justice and Diversity Center.
Giving 2020: Legal Community Persists in Making Holidays Brighter for Head Start Kids
On behalf of the Justice and Diversity Center’s Diversity and Pipeline Programs, we thank all firms that have stepped up to participate in this year’s Head Start Holiday Gift program.