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Lisa Mak Elected Secretary of Asian American Bar Association

BASF board member Lisa P. Mak, Minami Tamaki, was elected secretary of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (AABA), one of the largest Asian American bar associations in the nation and one of the largest minority bar associations in…

Minami Tamaki Honored at Cameron House Gala

BASF Leader Circle firm Minami Tamaki was recently honored at the Donaldina Cameron House‘s 2019 Soul & Elegance Gala. Firm partners Minette Kwok and Mark Fong, along with Karen Korematsu, were featured in a video about the firm’s long history of fighting for the rights…

Daily Journal Announces Top 100 Women Lawyers in California

The following BASF members were recognized as Top Women Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal: Mary E. Alexander, Mary Alexander & Associates; Elizabeth J. Cabraser, Lieff Cabraser Hiemann & Bernstein; Mitzi Chang, Goodwin Procter; Maria Chedid, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer; Harmeet K. Dhillon, Dhillon…

Bike, Run or Walk For Justice at JDC Bike-A-Thon/Walk-A-Thon

On Saturday, June 22, join us at beautiful Little Marina Green in San Francisco with your family and pets for outdoor fun for a great cause. The Justice & Diversity Center’s (JDC) 12th annual Bike-a-thon/Walk-a-thon is a way…

Meet Caitlin Flammer, JDC’s Volunteer and Clinics Coordinator

Meet Caitlin Flammer, our Volunteer and Clinics Coordinator, who connects volunteers to the Justice & Diversity Center’s (JDC) pro bono projects and organizes our monthly Legal Advice and Referral Clinics (LARCs). Caitlin is a native of the…

To Hyphenate or Not to Hyphenate?

Having explored the uses of the em-dash and the en-dash, we now come to the most commonly known of the dash punctuation marks: the hyphen. The hyphen’s main job is to connect two or more things that are closely…

Ben Riley Ranked By Chambers Among Top 12 Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secret Litigators in California

BASF member Ben Riley, Bartko Zankel Bunzel & Miller, was recently named one of the twelve top litigators in California in the category of Intellectual Property Litigation: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets, in Chambers 2019 rankings of lawyers around the world. For 30…

Guy O. Kornblum Receives Peter Perlman Service Award for 2019

BASF member Guy O. Kornblum, Kornblum, Cochran, Erickson and Harbison, was recently selected to receive a Peter Perlman Service Award for 2019 from the Litigation Counsel of America (LCA). Guy O. Kornblum received the award for his outstanding efforts in community service at…

How a Late Rock Star’s Trust-Fund Baby Worked Through Her ‘Inheritance Guilt’

Frances Bean Cobain says she feels guilty about the millions she’s inheriting from the father she barely remembers. “My relationship to money is different because I didn’t earn it. And so it’s almost like this big, giant loan…

Dad’s Intent Overruled Greedy Kid

Before Arthur Blech died in 2011, the man who once handled Richard Nixon’s income taxes detailed how he wanted his $65 million estate divvied up. Yet his intentions for what his children were to inherit were found to…

Karen Johnson-McKewan Named to Hollywood Reporter Power Lawyers List For Second Consecutive Year

BASF member Karen Johnson-McKewan, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, was recently named to The Hollywood Reporter’s 2019 Power Lawyers List. This is Karen’s second consecutive year on the list, which spotlights the 100 most influential lawyers in the entertainment industry.

Hearts on Fire: The Humanitarian Crisis at our Border

JDC’s Katie Kavanagh recounts her experience working with the Border Rights Project of Al Otro Lado There is a crisis at our southern border, but it is not a matter of national security. It is first and…

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