The Barristers Club, The Bar Association of San Francisco’s (BASF) new attorney division, recently announced the officers for its 2017 Board of Directors. Adam Kaplan, Munger, Tolles & Olson, will serve as president; Drew Amoroso, Move Legal, will serve as…
Golf Tournament Brings Together Bay Area Corporate Counsel and Attorneys to Raise Money for Diversity Programs
More than 100 members of the legal community met on the links at TPC Harding Park on October 21 for the 8th Annual Putting for the Pipeline charity golf tournament. Since its inception, the tournament has raised funds to support…
Golf Tournament Brings Together Bay Area Corporate Counsel and Attorneys to Raise Money for Diversity Programs
More than 100 members of the legal community met on the links at TPC Harding Park on October 21 for the 8th Annual Putting for the Pipeline charity golf tournament. Since its inception, the tournament has raised funds to support…
CLE Compliance Countdown
The CLE compliance deadline for Group 3, N-Z is quickly approaching. The February 3, 2014 deadline is only a few days away! BASF has got you covered. Whether you need special or general CLE credits, take advantage of these upcoming…
CLE Compliance Countdown
The CLE compliance deadline for Group 3, N-Z is March 1, 2017! BASF has got you covered. Whether you need special or general CLE credits, take advantage of these upcoming seminars to get those last-minute credits you need to stay in…
New Partnership Offers Retirement, Investment and Insurance Services
The Bar Association of San Francisco welcomes Frankie Ross and Will Chau as featured partners. Ross and Chau are Financial Representatives at the Principal Financial Group. They specialize in helping individuals, business owners, executives and their employees implement strategies de-signed…
Destined to Become Law? Sixty Resolutions are Approved at the Conference of California Bar Associations; Jim Brosnahan Honored
Approximately 30 BASF members participated in the BASF Delegation to the Conference of California Bar Associations, a collection of dozens of regional and specialty bar associations which meets once a year to debate and vote on proposed legislative reforms.…
Two Law Firms Join the Leader Circle
The Bar Association of San Francisco recently grew its distinguished roster of Leaders Circle law firms with the addition of McGuireWoods and Baker Botts. McGuireWoods is a leading U.S. law firm with more than 1,000 attorneys in 23 offices across…
Incubator Project Launches with Four Attorneys
Legal incubators have been increasing in recent years to address the negative consequences of two divergent realities: A widening legal justice gap for those of limited means and a shrinking network of full employment opportunities for newly minted lawyers…
Attorneys and Judges Volunteer at Local Juvenile Detention Center to Build Futures
On November 12, Jeff Bornstein of Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld and BASF’s Julie Traun organized the fourth BASF sponsored trip to Log Cabin Ranch High School (LCR), a unique court-ordered school located 45 miles south of San Francisco in…
Legal Writing Tip: Draft the Main Issue First
Well-trained journalists learn a critical commandment early in their careers: never start writing until you know the story. Or, as novelist John Irving put it in Writers on Writing, “Never start writing until you know … as much of the…
Yosemite Conference: Come for the CLE, Stay for the Scenery
It has been said that “for everything there is a season.” Well, for 41 years, winter has been the season for the Labor and Employment Section’s Yosemite Conference. The Yosemite Conference is the section’s flagship event, bringing together lawyers…