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Message from the BALIF Board
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December is upon us, which means that your calendar and Facebook notifications are flooded with holiday parties, clam bakes, and trips to the cape. If you don't already know, this year BALIF's Annual Holiday Party will be held at The Stud on Thursday, December 14th from 6 - 9pm. Come drink and be Mary!
I hope to see all your smiling faces out and about. When confronted with all of those tasty holiday pastries and treats, remember one thing. It's bulking season!
Happy Hanukkah and Merry Indictments,
Stephan Ferris
BALIF Social Committee Chair
Mr. Friendly SF 2018
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BALIF December Happy Hour
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Join BALIF for our December Happy Hour and a Mock Tail!!
When:
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Time: 6 - 8pm
Where: Mock Tails at the Castro Country Club
4058 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94114
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BALIF Partner Exchange - Location Change
Monday, December 11, 2017
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LOCATION CHANGE!
BALIF Partner Exchange - Monday, December 11, 2017 and save the date for future months
When: Monday, December 11, 2017, and Wednesday, January 17, 2018 (save date; location to be determined)
Time: 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
What: Lunch with other partners and firm owners
Cost: divided by guests present - cash appreciated
BALIF has created the BALIF Partner Exchange to bring together our members that are looking to network and exchange business and ideas. This event is exclusively for BALIF members who are partners or owners of their firm with 7 years or more of experience.
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APABA Silicon Valley Annual APA Women Trailblazers Panel
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017
6:00PM-8:30PM
Location:
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
650 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA
Please join the APABA Silicon Valley Women in Law Committee on December 13, 2017 for its annual informative and engaging conversation with trailblazing female APA attorneys who have established themselves as respected pioneers in their areas of practice. A reception will follow the panel.
PANELISTS:
- Marie Oh Huber - SVP Legal Affairs, General Counsel & Secretary at eBay Inc.
- Sallie Kim - Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- Magan Pritram Ray - Partner, Greenberg Traurig
- Shirin Sinnar - Associate Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Our panelists will share how they navigated the legal and business environment to arrive at their current positions, and will share practical advice on maximizing professional development. The panelists will also share their thoughts on how we can best work to improve diversity and inclusion in the legal profession, both as individual attorneys and as members of a growing collective of female APA attorneys.
The conversation and reception are generously sponsored by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
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BALIF Holiday Party!
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Join us for our annual holiday party and ring in some holiday cheer!!
When:
December 14, 2017
6:00- 9:00 pm
Where:
The Stud Bar
399 9th St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
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Pronoun Power:
The Standard for Gender Neutrality
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Transgender Law Center is now accepting applications for the third cohort of Legal Information Helpline response volunteers!
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The Helpline is our largest legal services project, providing legal information and resources to over 2000 transgender community members and their families a year across many areas, including employment, health care, housing, civil rights, immigration, prisoners' rights, and identity document changes.
If you are looking for a way to empower trans community members to advocate for themselves by expanding access to critical legal information, I hope you'll consider joining us to keep this vital program going.
The program is designed with busy lawyers in mind: we will provide you with training, access to our extensive database of information and resources, and ongoing support from TLC staff and the community of fellow volunteers.
Simply answer at least 10 questions a month for three months (this generally comes to a few hours a week), working from your own computer and on your own schedule. You can select which questions to respond to, based on your interest, expertise, and capacity.
If you would like to get involved, please fill out this form: https://tlcenter.box.com/s/121morf4f8cg1erx6ni3plf3nad6m6ry and return it to me (Ian Anderson) at ian@transgenderlawcenter.org whenever you have the chance. If you have any questions, feel free to email me at the same address.
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The AIDS Legal Referral Panel
FREE Fall 2017
MCLE Training Programs
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To RSVP
Call: 415-701-1200 ext. 303
Representing LGBTQ Clients in Immigration Court
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Tuesday, December 5, 5:30-7:00pm - 1.5
Elimination of Bias
CLE Credit
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Presented by Gam Galindo, Esq. - Galindo & Associates, P.C. (gamgalindolaw.com)
Mediation Strategies that Work for Your Client and YOU!
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Thursday, December 7, 5:15-6:45pm - 1.5 General CLE Credits
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Presented by Guy Kornblum, Esq. - Kornblum Cochran Erickson & Harbison LLP (kcehlaw.com)
Asylum Claims for LGBTQ and HIV+ Clients
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Tuesday, December 12, 5:30-7:00pm - 1.5
Elimination of Bias
CLE Credit
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Presented by Jose Z. Marin, Esq. - Jose Marin Law
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Giving to the BALIF Foundation
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Please consider making a tax deductible donation to the BALIF Foundation. The Foundation recently launched and is working to assist BALIF in bringing LGBT judges to the bench and supporting scholarships, stipends and fellowships for law students and attorneys working in the LGBTQ community.
You can donate here. In the four years ahead, we believe the Foundation's work will be critical in helping to protect our community.
For more information about the BALIF Foundation or how to get involved, contact Jamie Dupree
jdupree@fddcm.com.
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BALIF & The BALIF Foundation
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BALIF is the Bay Area's LGBT Bar Association, which is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit, which can engage in political activity. Its Board members are elected by the BALIF membership and chair various committees of the BALIF bar association.
The BALIF Foundation is BALIF's charitable arm. Donations to the BALIF Foundation are tax deductible because it is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The BALIF Foundation is dedicated to increasing the number of LGBT judges on the bench through educational programming, supporting LGBT community organizations, and providing scholarships, summer stipends, and fellowships for LGBT law students and young attorneys seeking to help the LGBT community through legal work. It gave its inaugural summer fellowship for the summer of 2017.
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Job Postings Now on BALIF Website
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Looking for a job or a law school internship? As a BALIF member you get access to all job postings. Click
here to see the opportunities, or log into the
BALIF website with your membership ID and password, and select JOBS on the menu on the left.
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| December 11 - BALIF Partner Exchange Luncheon @Credo |
Partner Level
Counsel Level
Advocate Level
A.L. Nella & Co., CPA
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Jones Day
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Pacific Gas & Electric
Sanford Heisler, LLP
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Uber
Weaver, Austin, Villeneuve & Sampson LLP
Wells Fargo Legal Specialty Private Bank
White & Case LLP
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Benefactor Level
Individual Sponsors
Steven Medeiros, ACLU of Northern California
Joanna Barron, ADR Services
Jeremy Sousa, Altep
Susan Bluer, Bluer & Bluer
C. Todd Norris, Bullivant Houser Bailey P.C.
Laurie Klimchock, CAOC
Michael Colantuono, Colantuono, Highsmith & Whatley, PC
Jim Laufenberg, Coldwell Banker
Peter Borkon, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP
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Nyla Moujaes & Peter Catalanotti
Jamie Dupree
Stephan Ferris
Jaclyn Gross & Kevin Jones
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BALIF Foundation
Board of Directors
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Jamie Dupree, Chair
Shay Gilmore
Chelsea HaleyNelson, Secretary
Laura Maechtlen
Nina Paul
Linda Scaparotti
David Tsai
John Unruh, Treasurer
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