Your friendly, neighborhood BALIF Law Student Reps are pleased to invite you to a Speed Networking and Resume Review event.

When - Thursday, January 30th, 2014

Where - Pillsbury Winthrop, Four Embarcadero Center, 22nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111

Time - 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Who - BALIF law students!

What should I wear? - Business attire. We want you to make this experience as close to the real deal as possible.

As law students, we know that sometimes getting individualized feedback about your resume and interviewing skills can be difficult. Finding that next firm job or government externship can be a daunting task. With BALIF's speed networking event, we will help prepare you to deal with some of the most common, dreaded interview questions, what work experience or personalization you can add to your resume, and how to go into a job interview and feel like coming out a winner. After our rounds of speed networking, stick around and network with the attorneys to find out more about what steps you can take to get ahead in your job search!

Beginning January 2014, BALIF will now begin charging students an annual $10 membership fee to qualify to attend certain BALIF member-only events.

Barbara Bryant had her Op-Ed piece "Teach Our Children Well-About Kissing In First Grade," published in SFGate, December 15, 2013. Here is the hyperlink: http://lnkd.in/b8DAaHV   (printed copy published December 16).

She is teaching an MCLE Substance Abuse class for the Contra Costa County Bar Association January  22, 2014.  Click here for more info.    

The Nuts and Bolts of D.U.I. Law: What Every Lawyer Should Know About D.U.I.s in California

• Wednesday, Thursday January 23, 2014 5:30-7:00pm
• Presented by Daniel A. Flores, Esq., Flores Law Firm
• Bar Association of San Francisco, 301 Battery Street, 3rd Floor, Board Room, San Francisco, CA 94111
• 1.5 General CLE Credits

To RSVP:

Alex Taylor

Volunteer Coordinator

AIDS Legal Referral Panel

1663 Mission St., Suite 500

San Francisco, CA 94103

415-701-1200 ext. 303

alext@alrp.org

www.alrp.org

Friday, January 24, 2013

Practicing Law Institute

San Francisco, CA

BALIF is co-sponsoring this event and will be given a $50 discount on registration. Just register at the NLG Member Rate.

 http://www.nlgsf.org/event/staying-true-your-roots-2014 

Join us for a full day of CLE presentations including substance abuse, elimination of bias, and ethics. This will be an opportunity for California attorneys to get CLE credit and, perhaps, a chance to recall why you became a lawyer in the first place.

Women Lawyers of Alameda County presents...

Running on Empty: Work/Life Balance Strategies

from Parents Who Stayed in the Race

Panel Discussion, moderated by Karen Bovarnick, CA Deputy Attorney General:

• Winifred Smith, Presiding Judge, Alameda County Superior Court
• Nancy Fineman, Partner, Cotchett, Pitre Simon & McCarthy
• Tony Mims-Cochran, Sole Practitioner
• Nora Wong, Alameda County Public Defender

When: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location: Alameda County Family Justice Center, Conference Room, 470 27th Street, Oakland

Cost: Free

RSVP: admin@wlaconline.org; (some childcare available with advance request)

Light refreshments provided

1.5 Hours of MCLE (certification pending)

Proceeds will be donated to the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON), which is spearheading a grassroots effort to provide disaster assistance.

If you would like to donate to the Typhoon Haiyan relief efforts, please visit http://nafconusa.org/

or

Make a check payable to "St. George Fontana," and on the memo line, write: "NAFCON Bayanihan Relief" to clearly allocate it for the typhoon relief.  St. George Fontanta is NAFCON's non-profit fiscal agent.

Send checks to FBANC President:

Abigail Rivamonte

SF Public Defender's Office

555 Seventh Street

SF, CA 94103

BALIF's twitter feed is up and running.  Follow us to see BALIF news, event info, #ThrowbackThursday posts, and more.  Just click the Twitter button at the bottom of the newsletter or here.

BALIF members are experts in almost every legal specialization from antitrust to family law and we want to leverage our extensive media contacts list to raise the profiles of our experts. When a journalist needs an expert on securities law, prison law, employment law, or whatever your specialization is, she'll call you for that quote. 

If you want to be included in the BALIF Expert Directory,

please send a short email with the following to PR@balif.org:

Name, title and place of business

Fields and/or sub-fields you are an expert in (E.g., Employment and ERISA)

No more than 500 words on what makes you an expert: specific work experience, length of experience, published articles or books, and speaking appearances related to your topic.

Please reply only if you can truly be considered an expert in your field; general guidelines are at least 7-10 years of practice and/or additional qualifications that separate you from other attorneys.

Have a job or need one? Civil procedure question? Need a

referral? Have something important to ask ... or news to tell? Want to get to our members quickly? Join our Listserv!

BALIF members should have received our invitation to join our newly-created Listserv. You must proactively respond to the request in order to be added to our Listserv. If you didn't get a request, please let us know by emailing technology@balif.org or balif@balif.org.

We all love that section in our alumni newsletters that talks about who's doing what.

Well, we're introducing the BALIFBuzz to show-off all the great things that our members are doing.  BALIFBuzz will be appearing in the weekly BALIF newsletter.   

New job?

New client?

Promotion?

Court victory?

Significant settlement?

Baby on the way?

Recently married or engaged?

Speaking engagement?

Award, recognition, certification, or degree?  

Or anything else you're excited about...

Keep it to one or two lines.  Please send to membership@balif.org.

Can't wait to hear your great news!

Meaghan Zore 

BALIF Membership Chair

All job postings can be found here!  

BALIF membership must be current to view the job postings. Simply log into the BALIF website with your membership ID and password, and select the JOBS from the menu on the left.