Interested in Joining the BASF Delegation to the California Conference of Bar Associations? Each year more than 20 CCBA resolutions get introduced as bills in the California legislature, and approximately 15 of them typically become part of the statutory law…

Fastcase, offered for free in BASF’s member-only lounge, is a next-generation legal research service that puts a national law library and powerful searching, sorting and visualization tools at your fingertips. Fastcase’s libraries include primary law from all 50 states, as…

The Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF), along with a number of its past presidents, released an op-ed in support of independence of the judiciary in response to Donald Trump’s statements that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is handling…

The Barristers Club held its annual Open House on April 21. Over 100 attorneys and law students came to BASF to learn about the various sections and committees of the Barristers Club. There were lots of new faces interested in…

On April 19, BASF, with the League of Women Voters of San Francisco, hosted a judicial candidates forum for the contested election for San Francisco Superior Court Seat 7. The Seat 7 candidates, Paul Henderson, Victor Hwang and Sigrid Irias,…

I attended my first Conference of Delegates as a BASF delegate in 1978, and I attended conferences yearly over the next decade, eventually becoming chair of the BASF delegation. Back then the conference was a function of the State Bar…