January 2018

Today is Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day!

EITC Awareness Day is a nationwide effort to ensure that working American taxpayers know about the Earned Income Tax Credit, which reduces the amount of tax owed by low to moderate income workers. The Justice & Diversity Center, through its Low-Income…

Paralegal Corner: How Legal Nurse Consultants Benefit Your Practice

Last September, The Bar Association of San Francisco’s Paralegal Section hosted an engaging CLE workshop titled, “Utilizing Legal Nurse Consultant Expertise to Benefit Your Legal Practice”, presented by Mitzi Wortman, RN-BC, CCM, LNCC and Rita Kae Restrepo, RN, BS,…

Preparing for Negotiation

When preparing for a negotiation on behalf of a client, the first step is to set aside the adversarial mindset. The goal of a negotiation is not to win an argument or to convince the other party that your…

Mock Trial Volunteers Needed for February Tournament

The San Francisco Mock Trial Competition starts in February, and The Bar Association of San Francisco’s Mock Trial committee is looking for volunteers to serve as presiding judges and scorers for the tournament’s preliminary rounds. More than 150 high school students…

Legal Writing Tip: Mind the Gaps Between Subject, Verb, and Object

To craft an easy-to-understand sentence, make sure the subject, verb, and object do not stray too far from each other. The subject is the actor in the sentence, while the object is the entity that is acted upon, or the…

Justice & Diversity Center’s Medical-Legal Project Helps Vulnerable Community Members

This month, we are highlighting the work of the Justice & Diversity Center’s (JDC) Medical-Legal Project (MLP), which provides legal services to low-income patients in community health centers. Project Supervising Attorney Marie Appel is on-site weekly at the Southeast Health…

Thank You, JDC Leadership Council

The Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) thanks our Leadership Council for its continuing guidance and support. Leadership Council members help build a strong bridge between JDC and the legal community and provide invaluable input on our program development. Thank you…

Malcolm Heinicke Installed as 2018 BASF President

More than 450 members of the legal community were in attendance at the December 14 membership luncheon and installation of 2018 President Malcolm Heinicke. Heinicke, a partner in the San Francisco office of Munger, Tolles & Olson is the association’s…

February Bulletin Board: Members and Leader Circle Firms in the News

Members Elected to American Law Institute Charlene “Chuck” Shimada, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and Angel Garganta, Venable, were both recently elected to the American Law Institute (ALI), a leading independent organization that produces critical scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and…

Family Law Corner: Is the Sun Really Setting on Reality Star’s Marriage?

After only three months of marriage, Golnesa “GG” Gharachedaghi (reality star of Bravo network’s “Shahs of Sunset”) requested a restraining order against her husband, Shalom Yeroushalmi. The “Bravolebrity” married Yeroushalmi in a surprise wedding only a month after he…

JDC Volunteers Help Bay Area Nonprofits Improve their Legal and Financial Health

The Justice & Diversity Center’s (JDC) Community Organization Representation Project (CORP) recently conducted a legal-financial clinic for nonprofit organizations with volunteer attorneys and accountants from Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton; Morgan Lewis & Bockius; Fenwick & West; Deloitte; and PwC.…

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…

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