Community Law Practice Incubator Start Your Own Practice − Serve the Community Are you or someone you know interested in starting a solo practice? Apply now to participate in the soon-to-launch Community Law Practice Incubator. The Bar Association of San…
2013 Scholarship Recipients Preparing for the Bar and Their Future
We are pleased to provide an update on three Bay Area Minority Law Student Scholarship recipients who graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in May 2016. We are very proud of their accomplishments and eagerly…
JDC Gala Sponsor Spotlight: McGuireWoods
Thank you, McGuireWoods, for your support! The Justice & Diversity Center invites your firm to become a sponsor of the JDC Gala too. The 2016 gala takes place on September 15 – it is the San Francisco legal community’s biggest annual fundraising…
Shelter Clinic Provides Legal Services to Homeless
The Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) thanks the attorney and law student volunteers of the Shelter Clinic, a project directed by JDC’s Homeless Advocacy Project (HAP) attorneys Laura Chiera and Elinor Roberts. This project involves a close partnership between HAP,…
Attorney Volunteers with JDC to Help Ease Consumers’ Fears
The Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) is pleased to recognize Robert Fletcher as Volunteer of the Month for July. Fletcher has been a frequent and integral volunteer for JDC’s Consumer Project at the now bi-monthly Consumer Debt Defense and Education…
JDC Staff Attorney Defends Tenants Against Eviction
The Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) welcomes Taylor Pospichel back as a staff attorney at the Homeless Advocacy Project (HAP). Pospichel worked at HAP as a legal advocate, then staff attorney, before becoming a senior staff attorney at the Eviction…
JDC Gala Sponsor Spotlight: Baker Botts
Thank you, Baker Botts, for your support! The Justice & Diversity Center invites your firm to become a sponsor of the JDC Gala too. The 2016 gala takes place on September 15 – it is the San Francisco legal community’s biggest annual…
School-To-College: The First Step to Increasing Diversity in the Legal Profession [Infographic]
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Panelists Aim to Inspire Diverse Students to Think About a Legal Career
More than 15 students attended a Destination Law School panel presentation at San Francisco State University. The panel presentation was organized in partnership with San Francisco State University’s Equal Opportunity Program (EOP) with the help of Assistant Director Yvette Ching.…
Former Scholarship Recipient Takes on Clerkships
2011 Bay Area Minority Law Student Scholarship recipient Antonio Ingram, Morrison & Foerster, will be clerking for the United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana with Judge Ivan Lemelle in New Orleans for one year beginning in August 2016.…
LGBT Battle for Equality Goes Beyond the Altar
Almost fifty years after the first same-sex couple was denied a marriage license in California, last year Obergefell v. Hodges codified a fundamental right to marry a person of the same sex. But Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgender people want…
Former School-To-College Student Shines as First-Generation College Student
High school is one of the most difficult transitions for young people. There are social, academic and family dynamics that add to the pressures of being in a new learning community. The transition sometimes derails young students’ dream of college, with every…