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Former Volunteer Joins JDC as Supervising Attorney for Tax Clinic

The Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) welcomes Matthew Miller as the new Supervising Attorney for its Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC). Miller comes to JDC after seven years of private practice in tax controversy, from complex disputes with the Internal…

Volunteer Interpreter Helps Serve Culturally Diverse Community

The Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) is pleased to recognize Maria Lanas as our Volunteer of the Month in August for her outstanding work with our Interpreter Project. JDC serves a linguistically diverse population, and volunteers such as Lanas help…

Summer Interns Help JDC Serve Low-Income and Homeless San Franciscans

This summer, the Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) welcomed nine summer interns at its downtown office and at JDC’s Homeless Advocacy Project (HAP). Peter Stevens, JDC’s Consumer Project intern, is a rising 2L at UC Hastings with a legal…

Smart Dispute Resolution

Is there such a thing as “smart” dispute resolution? You betcha! And here is why. What is the goal in representing a client in a dispute: resolution, of course, but the path towards the agreed upon result is the issue.…

Homeless Advocacy Project Building Dedicated to Tanya Neiman

The Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) of The Bar Association of San Francisco dedicated the new home of its Homeless Advocacy Project (HAP) in memory of Tanya Neiman, founder of HAP and longtime director of the Volunteer Legal Services Program,…

Informal Lunchtime Meetings Prove Beneficial For Solo/Small Firm Attorneys

Starting in 2014, the Solo and Small Firm Sections (S/SF) of the Barristers Club and BASF initiated a Brown Bag Luncheon Series, occurring the second Tuesday of each month at noon. Topics are wide-ranging; the group has ranged from ten…

Volunteers “Plant Futures” with Residents of Program for Incarcerated Youth

Thank you to the thirteen volunteers who helped “plant futures” with the residents of Log Cabin Ranch (LCR), a court-ordered residential school in La Honda. The volunteer event was one in a series of a BASF Presidential Initiatives known as…

Legal Community Continues to Raise the Bar in Annual Drive for SF-Marin Food Bank

BASF and the SF-Marin Food Bank celebrated the results of the annual Food From the Bar Campaign at an awards ceremony at Wine and Wall restaurant in mid June. Food from the Bar is the legal community’s annual fundraising drive…

August Bulletin Board: Our Members and Leaders Circle Firms Making Headlines

Eva Paterson Honored with Public Service Award The Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center honored BASF member Eva Paterson, Equal Justice Society President and Co-Founder, with its Matthew O. Tobriner Public Service Award. The award was presented at LAS-ELC’s…

The Court Reporter’s Dilemma: Interrupt or Drop

No one likes to be interrupted, least of all the litigator who is hot on the trail of a crucial answer from a witness. Words are flying like bullets. Suddenly, a voice asks him to repeat the question. He…

Legal Writing Tip: Omit Surplus Words

Good writing is lean writing. Unnecessary words impede clarity and impact. Lawyers trade in words. So you’d think we would know to use them carefully and sparingly. Instead, verbosity abounds. Excess words invade our sentences like so many extra pounds,…

Spacebar: Member-Only Lounge Now Open

More than 40 members came out for the ribbon cutting ceremony for the newly-opened member-only lounge –the Spacebar – at BASF on June 17. The Spacebar offers members work space, a desktop computer, wireless printer, a quick-charging station, coffee, and…

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