Put all your Black Friday and Cyber Monday savings to good use and support our #GivingTuesday campaign to increase diversity in our legal community. It’s easy: Make a donation today to the Bay Area Minority Law Student Scholarship program. Tell us…
Homeless Advocacy Project Partners With Lutheran Volunteer Corps to Provide Holistic Services
Lutheran Volunteer Corps (LVC) connects full-time stipended volunteers nationwide with nonprofit organizations to work for peace and justice. This month, the Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) is pleased to spotlight Hannah Flanery and Mallory Waytashek, who work at JDC’s Homeless…
San Francisco Immigration Court to Be Helped by LRIS Coordinator
The Bar Association of San Francisco’s Lawyer Referral and Information Service has hired Adina Hemley-Bronstein as its new Immigration Case Coordinator to help manage the activity from the “expedited dockets” at the San Francisco Immigration Court. For more than 25…
Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday: Pay it Forward with our Scholarship Program
Tomorrow, on #GivingTuesday, help make a difference in the lives of diverse Bay Area law students. The burden of law student debt limits diversity in the legal profession. The Bay Area Minority Law School Scholarship Program makes a difference.…
Next Tuesday is #GivingTuesday: Support Diversity in the Legal Profession
This December 2, The Bar Association of San Francisco and the Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) will launch our first ever #GivingTuesday campaign to support the Bay Area Minority Law Student Scholarship program. Since its inception in 1998, through the…
Diversity Includes Disability
It is so easy to say we have come so far. After all, diversity in the legal profession has risen dramatically in the last couple of decades. Advocacy groups and initiatives championed in recent years have made way for a…
BASF Giving Tuesday Campaign to Benefit Bay Area Minority Law Student Scholarship Program
This December 2, The Bar Association of San Francisco and the Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) will launch our first ever Giving Tuesday campaign to support the Bay Area Minority Law Student Scholarship program. This year our #GivingTuesday goal is…
JDC’s Homeless Advocacy Project Receives Grant to Aid Clients With Eviction Defense
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors recently included over one million dollars in the city budget for grants to local service providers to aid in the defense of eviction cases. The Justice & Diversity Center’s Homeless Advocacy Project (HAP) was…
Healthcare Lawyer Helps Nonprofits Navigate Regulatory Regimes
The Justice & Diversity Center’s (JDC) Pro Bono Legal Services Program is pleased to spotlight Heather Deixler, an associate with Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius, as our volunteer of the month. Deixler is a steady volunteer with JDC’s Community Organization Representation…
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Gala Raises More than $350,000 for Justice & Diversity Center Programs
On September 18, nearly 500 guests celebrated the legal community’s support of the Justice & Diversity Center’s (JDC) mission to advance fairness and equality by providing pro bono legal services to low-income people and educational programs that foster diversity in…
Volunteer Attorney Empowers Mother to Leave Abuse, Not Her Child, Behind
One of the many clients that we have had the honor to assist is Ms. Chan. Ms. Chan married a U.S. citizen in her home country and came with him to San Francisco. She did not speak English and had…