JDC News Archives

Summer in the City – Diversity Receptions

BASF kicked off its Annual Summer Diversity Receptions on June 20, with its Latino Partners and Associates Reception at Littler Mendelson. More than 100 guests attended including Judge Suzanne R. Bolanos, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, Judge Miguel Marquez, and Judge Garrett L. Wong. Post by The Bar Association…

Volunteer Interpreter Gives Low-Income Clients Access to Pro Bono Legal Services

The Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) is pleased to recognize Paulina Castillo for her outstanding volunteer work with its Interpreter Project. JDC serves a linguistically diverse population, and volunteers like Castillo help ensure that low-income, monolingual clients have meaningful access to pro bono legal counsel. A licensed attorney in…

Allen Matkins’ Relentless Defense of Elderly Tenant Keeps Her Housed

Three attorneys from Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis, a firm participating in the Justice & Diversity Center’s (JDC) Right to Civil Counsel program, took on full-scope representation for a low-income tenant in a landlord-tenant case and recently prevailed, allowing her to stay in her home. Thor McLaughlin, Mark Seifert and…

Summer Interns from Bay Area Law Schools Lend a Hand at JDC

This summer, four summer interns are working with the Justice & Diversity Center’s (JDC) Pro Bono Legal Services Program. Nathan Roselin, who attends Golden Gate University School of Law, is working with the Family Law Project. Maxine Choi attends University of San Francisco School of Law,…

Theo Miller Talks About Unlocking the Doors of Opportunity

This month we are profiling Diversity Pipeline Programs Advisory Committee member Theodore Miller. As senior policy advisor for the City and County of San Francisco, Miller directs a cross-agency initiative to strengthen diversity and advance equity for disproportionately impacted communities of the city, with a particular focus on reversing the…

Destination Law School: Helping to Widen the Diversity Pipeline One Student at a Time

Diversity Pipeline Programs Manager Nicole Britton-Snyder recently caught up with Harmon Jacob Handloff, a participant in BASF’s Destination Law School (DLS) program, who will attend UC Hastings College of the Law in the Fall. Handloff, who graduated from San Francisco State in 2013, spoke about his expectations for law school, what he hopes…

Former BASF President Appointed to California Court of Appeal

California Governor Brown recently announced the appointment of San Francisco Chief Deputy City Attorney Terry Stewart to serve as a justice on California’s Court of Appeal. The announcement was made at San Francisco’s LGBT Pride Festival in June. Stewart served as BASF President in 1999, where she…

Six Law Students Chosen to Receive Bay Area Minority Law Student Scholarship

The Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) of The Bar Association of San Francisco recently announced the recipients of its 2014 Bay Area Minority Law Student Scholarships. Thanks to the generosity of donors, six scholarships will be awarded to minority students…

Bay Area Firms and Companies Help Change Lives Through Summer Internship Program

Partnering with the San Francisco Unified School District, the Justice & Diversity Center’s Law Academy program encourages and increases career opportunities for underserved and ethnically diverse students in Balboa High School in San Francisco. Creative and inspiring curriculum is built into several core classes where junior and senior…

Antitrust Attorney Branches Out to Protect Consumers

The Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) is pleased to spotlight Jubilee Menzies of Andrus Anderson as our Volunteer of the Month for July 2014. Menzies began volunteering with JDC in 2011 with the Consumer Project, which provides legal advice, assistance and limited or full-scope representation to low-income consumers…

Meet Tyler Hill: Fall 2015 Destination is Law School

Diversity Pipeline Programs Manager Nicole Britton-Snyder recently caught up with Tyler Hill, a participant in BASF’s Destination Law School (DLS) program who is currently applying to law school for fall 2015. Tyler, who graduated from UC Berkeley in 2013, spoke about her expectations for law school, what she hopes to do with her…

2011 Scholarship Recipient Antonio Ingram: Next Stop Morrison & Foerster

BASF’s 2011 Bay Area Minority Law Student Scholarship recipient Antonio Ingram graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law this past May. Over the last three years, Ingram has shown why he was so deserving of the scholarship and why it was such a great investment by donors to the scholarship…

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