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Increase Access to Justice with a Dues-bill Donation!
 Still waiting to pay your annual State Bar member fees? Consider making a gift to the Justice Gap Fund at line 10 of your Dues bill. Your tax-deductible donation will leverage grants to 95 non-profit legal assistance providers that serve all 58 counties in California. The need for legal aid keeps rising, but traditional funding sources are drying up. We need your help to keep providing critical services to people in need. For more information, or to make an on-line donation, visit the Campaign for Justice website at www.CAforJustice.org.
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State Bar Loren Miller and Pro Bono Awards - Call for Nominations!
Deadline: March 15, 2013
The State Bar of California wants to know about members who performed extraordinary legal services to the poor last year. Please nominate your colleagues for the 2013 Loren Miller Legal Services Award and the President's Pro Bono Service Awards.
The Loren Miller Legal Services Award recognizes a lifetime commitment to legal services and extending legal services to the poor. Previous award recipients include staff of legal services organizations (such as directors of litigation, executive directors and senior staff attorneys) and private bar attorneys. Repeat nominations are accepted and encouraged with updated information. Please refer to the Loren Miller Guidelines for more information about the criteria, an electronic nomination form, instructions for electronic submission, and information about past awardees.
Please also consider submitting nominations for the President's Pro Bono Service Awards. Nominees include:
- California attorneys (solo, recently admitted, limited active practice, government, law firm, corporate, law school faculty)
- Teams of attorneys
- California offices of law firms
- Corporate or government legal departments
- Associations of California lawyers
- ABA or State Bar accredited law schools
- Law students enrolled at ABA or State Bar accredited law schools who did not receive any form of compensation, clinical or other academic credit for pro bono work
Up to nine awards may be given for the provision of outstanding pro bono legal services in calendar year 2012 (or 2011-2012 academic year for law school and law student nominations). Repeat nominations are accepted with updated information for calendar year 2012. Self-nominations are welcomed and nominations for outstanding pro bono contributions made in rural and non-urban areas are highly encouraged. Please refer to the Awards Guidelines for more information about the awards categories, criteria for selection, an electronic nomination form, and instructions for electronic submission, as well as information about the 2012 President's Pro Bono Service Awards recipients.
The nomination deadline for both awards is March 15, 2013. Nominations will only be accepted electronically. The 2013 awards will be presented at a reception in October during the State Bar Annual Meeting in San Jose. If you have any questions about the awards, please contact Rachel Kronick Rothbart, Awards Outreach Chair for the Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services (SCDLS), at rrothbart@law.usc.edu or the SCDLS Staff Liaison, Sharon Ngim, at sharon.ngim@calbar.ca.gov
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Upcoming FREE MCLE Programs
January 29
Residential Lending after the Crash: An Update on How Dodd-Frank and the CFPB Have Changed the Rules of Home Loan Origination (Free)
Chair: Maeve Elise Brown, Housing and Economic Rights Advocates
February 4-5
California Family Law Basics: Pro Bono Representation in Low-Income Family Law Cases (Free)
Co-Chairs: Stephanie Bilinski, Volunteer Legal Services Program
Elizabeth Hom, Alameda County Bar Association Volunteer Legal Services; Genevieve Richardson, Bay Area Legal Aid
March 7
Representing the Pro Bono Client: Effective Written Advocacy (Free)
Co-Chairs: Robert Capistrano, Bay Area Legal Aid
Jocelyn Larkin, Impact Fund
March 13
California Eviction Defense: Protecting Low-Income Tenants 2013 (Free)
Chair: S. Lynn Martinez, Western Center on Law and Poverty
March 21
Social Media for Non-Profit and Public Interest Organizations 2013 (Free)
Co-Chairs: Darian Rodriguez Heyman, Social Media for Nonprofits; Ritu Sharma, Social Media for Nonprofits
April 2
California Public Benefits: The Basics for Non-Profit and Pro Bono Advocacy 2013 (Free)
Co-Chairs: Genevieve Richardson, Bay Area Legal Aid
Steven Weiss, Bay Area Legal Aid
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