BASF has a full lineup of MCLE courses, mixers and networking events this month. If you missed a program from January or February, check out the Webcast Replays and get caught up any time that is convenient for you. To…
Can You Confront Opposing Counsel if Opposing Counsel Is Violating the Rules of Professional Conduct?
Believing that opposing counsel violated the California Rules of Professional Conduct (CRPC or Rule) can present a clear ethical dilemma for attorneys. However, Rule 3.10, also known as the extortion prohibition rule, provides limitations on the attorney’s actions. Rule 3.10…
March 2021 Members in the News
Human Rights Campaign Foundation Announces Best Places To Work The following BASF Leaders Circle firms were included on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality: Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld Alston & Bird Arnold…
Virginia Adds to the Privacy Compliance Matrix
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) dominated privacy compliance efforts in 2018. Compliance efforts for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) followed in 2019, and California voters then approved the California Privacy Rights Act in 2020—necessitating additional compliance…
What BASF’s Litigation Section Can Do For You
Whether it is taking advantage of the many Continuing Legal Education (CLE) events the Litigation Section offers, brushing up on your trial skills, getting updates on the state of the court, or networking at the annual Bench Bar Conference, most…
Bay Area Minority Law Student Scholarship Program Now Accepting Applications
The 2021 Minority Law Student Scholarship Application is now available online. Students can access the application at www.sfbar.org/scholarships. The 2021 application deadline is Friday, May 21, 2021. Thanks to the generosity of the legal community, the Justice & Diversity Center (JDC)…
Bay Area Diversity Career Fair Moves Online, Increases Access to Students Nationwide
A program of the Bar Association of San Francisco and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, this year’s 16th Annual Bay Area Diversity Career Fair was unlike those held in prior years. Traditionally the fair is an in-person, day-and-a-half long event featuring…
Three Estate Planning Keys for Solo and Small Firm Attorneys
Do you know who would make decisions for you if you lost capacity? Have you designated guardians for your children to act if you’re not around? How confident are you that your assets will go to the right people, in…
Help Your Neighbors in Need, Support Food From The Bar
For the past thirty years, the legal community has supported the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank through the annual Food From the Bar campaign. Last year alone, Food From the Bar helped provide over 1.3 million meals. Since the start of…
Favor the Simple, Declarative Sentence
Resisting the urge to pack your sentences with numerous thoughts and details will make your writing easier to understand and thus, more effective. Use of sprawling, convoluted sentences—in legal memoranda, briefs to the court, judicial opinions, statutes, and transactional documents—is…
Solo and Small Firm Practitioners Gathered Virtually for Fifth Annual Conference
This year marked the fifth year of the Solo and Small Firm Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco’s ever-popular annual conference, and despite being held virtually due to the current public health orders, the January 28 conference, Larger Than…
What Can Oral Argument Preparation Teach Us About Effective Briefing?
Tips for adapting your case to the judges’ and justices’ perspective While attorneys advocate, judges search for the right result. Here are three techniques for persuading judges by aiding them in their truth-seeking mission. First, channel your audience’s inner ‘scientist.’ Organizational…