Often, this column highlights a particular case referred by the Lawyer Referral and Information Service (LRIS), as well as the LRIS panel attorney who skillfully handled it. In many instances the attorney has achieved a significant monetary result for the…
Justice & Diversity Center’s Homeless Advocacy Project: Helping the Homeless Community One Client at a Time
Martin* had been living in his unit in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco since 1999. In 2002, he started to have serious habitability problems in his unit – infestation of rodents, cockroaches and insects, mold covering the entire apartment,…
Lawyers Learn to Work Their Wardrobes at Banana Republic Fashion Fundraiser
More than 100 members of the legal community gathered at the Banana Republic on June 20 for the 3rd Annual Work Your Wardrobe charity event benefiting two Justice & Diversity Center educational programs—Mock Trial and School-To-College. Event guests enjoyed a…
Bike-A-Thon Raises More Than $18,000 for Legal Services Programs
More than 50 people had fun biking and running at Crissy Field while raising $18,251 for the Justice & Diversity Center’s (JDC) legal services programs. The amount raised surpassed any past Bike-a-Thon fundraising efforts, and exceeded last year’s total by…
Mediating in the World of Antitrust: Part II
Antitrust litigation is increasingly international. Whether it’s the price-fixing of computer chips, LCD screens, diamonds or fertilizer, U.S. courts frequently assume jurisdiction over foreign defendants accused of conduct that affects U.S. competition. At the same time, these defendants, domestic or…
Lawyer Referral and Information Service Spreads the Word About its Panel Attorneys
For the second year in a row, BASF’s Lawyer Referral and Information Service (LRIS) participated in the Golden Gate Business Association Pride Expo in June. Over 80 local LGBT friendly businesses and nonprofits were in attendance to share resources and…
Justice & Diversity Center Honors Volunteer Interpreter Brooke Gutierrez
The Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) is pleased to honor Brooke Gutierrez as our Volunteer of the Month for August 2013. Gutierrez began volunteering with JDC in 2010, first in its Destination Law School program, then as an intern for…
August Bulletin Board: Our Members and Sponsor Firms Making Headlines
Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence Welcomes Attorneys Into Founders’ Circle BASF members Elizabeth Cabraser, Lieff Cabarser Heimann & Bernstein and Carol Kingsley, Kingsley Mediation Services, were both welcomed into the Founders’ Circle at the Law Center to Prevent Gun…
Lawyers Rock Out at Battle of the Bands Fundraiser
The first annual Law Rocks battle of the bands competition took place at The Independent, the night of June 13, raising over $22,000 to benefit San Francisco Bay Area charities. Five bands, including 12th Root of 2 and Def Piper…
2011 Minority Scholarship Recipient Pays It Forward By Informing High School Students About Legal Career Opportunities
This summer, Edelmira Diaz, MSW, a third year law student at UC Hastings College of the Law, participated in the Hispanic National Bar Association’s (HNBA) Legal Action Education Program (LEAP). As a law counselor, Diaz attended the week long program…
BASF Applauds the U.S. Supreme Court for Striking Down California’s Proposition 8
BASF applauds the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on June 26 dismissing Hollingsworth v. Perry, which leaves intact the District Court ruling striking down California’s 2008 voter-approved Proposition 8 and opens the door to the resumption of same-sex marriages in the…
Lawyer Referral and Information Service Publishes FAQs Related to DOMA and How it Could Affect Your Clients
On June 26, 2013 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Section 3 of the Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defined marriage to be that between a man and a woman only, is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court also ruled…