In This Issue

Thursday, May 8, 2014 at Sedgwick in San Francisco!

Barbara Bryant

Barbara Bryant has joined the Board of Equal Rights Advocates, a 40-year old SF organization advocating for the full empowerment of all women and girls.  ERA was the original home of the Lesbian Rights Project, later to become the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

David Owens

 

Congratulations to BALIF Member, David Owens, AirBnB's new Regional Head of Public Policy.

RECOGNIZING SUMMER ASSOCIATES AND LAW CLERKS

IN THE S.F. BAY AREA AND HONORING AABA'S 2014 SUMMER GRANT RECIPIENTS FOR THEIR DEDICATION TO COMMUNITY SERVICE AND CLIENT ADVOCACY.

 

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

6:00 - 8:30 PM

 

Sens Restaurant

4 Embarcadero Center - Promenade Level

San Francisco, CA 94111

 

We hope you can join us!

To RSVP please email:

 

aaba.bayarea@gmail.com 

 

LGBT families in Israel have significant legal protections, yet marriage equality and surrogacy for gay men don't exist. Exploring the complexities of LGBT family law offers a wonderful opportunity for lawyers in the US to experience a unique dimension of Israeli society and to meet some of the true pioneers in LGBT advocacy. The tour will be hosted by Frederick Hertz and Elizabeth Schwartz, and will include a series of pre-tour classes and a week of meetings in February 2015 with Israeli lawyers, advocates, and scholars. Participants will be responsible for their own airfare ($1,100-$1,350) and hotel/food expenses (approximately $2,000), with discounted rooms at The Brown Hotel in Tel Aviv and Arthur Hotel in Jerusalem. There will be no charge for the educational programs, and continuing educational credits will be provided.

 

 For further information contact Frederick Hertz (fred@Frederickhertz.com) or Elizabeth Schwartz (eschwartz@sobelaw.com)

 

Social Security and Overpayments

• Tuesday, May 6, 5:30-7:00pm
• Presented by Amy Orgain, Esq., and John Fasesky,Esq., Staff Attorneys at ALRP
• Bar Association of San Francisco, 301 Battery Street, 3^rd Floor, Board Room, San Francisco, CA 94111
• 1.5 General CLE Credits

Foreclosures

• Tuesday, May 8, 5:30-7:00pm
• Presented by Lisa Sitkin, Esq., Managing Attorney at Housing and Economic Rights Advocate
• Bar Association of San Francisco, 301 Battery Street, 3^rd Floor, Board Room, San Francisco, CA 94111
• 1.5 General CLE Credits

The Nuts and Bolts of Handling Motor Vehicle Accident Cases

• Tuesday, May 13, 5:30-7:00pm
• Presented by Michelle Mandel, Esq., Law Offices of Michael and Michelle Mandel
• Bar Association of San Francisco, 301 Battery Street, 3^rd Floor, Board Room, San Francisco, CA 94111
• 1.5 General CLE Credits

Bankruptcy Law

• Wednesday, May 28, 5:30-7:00pm
• Presented by Martha Simon, Esq. and Pat McMahon, Esq.
• Bar Association of San Francisco, 301 Battery Street, 3rd Floor, Board Room, San Francisco, CA 94111
• 1.5 General CLE Credits

Disability Discrimination in the Workplace

• Thursday, June 5, 5:30-7:00pm
• Presented by Noah Lebowitz, Esq.
• Bar Association of San Francisco, 301 Battery Street, 3rd Floor, Board Room, San Francisco, CA 94111
• 1.5 General CLE Credits

$60k Dilemma: Special Needs Trusts or Spend Downs?

• Tuesday, June 10, 5:30-7:00pm
• Presented by Steve Dane
• Bar Association of San Francisco, 301 Battery Street, 3^rd Floor, Board Room, San Francisco, CA 94111
• 1.5 General CLE Credits

To RSVP

Email: mcle@alrp.org or

Call: 415-701-1200 ext. 303

 

The Office of the Independent Administrator (OIA) is seeking qualified individuals who want to join its pool of possible arbitrators. There is no fee to do so and the OIA receives no money from the neutral arbitrators.

 

The OIA administers the arbitration system between Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, Inc., and its six million members in California. We administer about 650 cases a year and have approximately 275 neutral arbitrators on the panel. The panels are divided by region; Northern California, Southern California, and San Diego. The parties select their neutral arbitrator by striking and ranking 12 randomly generated names supplied by the OIA, or by jointly selecting any neutral arbitrator upon whom they can agree.   Neutrals set their own fees and are paid by the parties.

 

Among other requirements, neutral arbitrators must either be lawyers with either ten years of substantial litigation and/or arbitration experience; retired state or federal judges; or lawyers with specifically designed arbitration training.   Medical malpractice experience is not required. You must agree to follow the OIA Rules and ensure that the deadlines set forth in the Rules are met.

 

If interested, please go to the OIA at www.oia-kaiserarb.com. You may complete the application on line. You may also obtain copies by emailing oia@oia-kaiserarb.com or by calling 213-637-9847. The qualifications and a copy of the application are attached.

The National LGBT Bar Association is now accepting submissions for the Student Leadership Award, the Michael Greenberg Writing Competition and the International Association of LGBT Judges Writing Competition

 

Student Leadership Award

The National LGBT Bar Association's Student Leadership Award is the organization's highest honor for law students. The award will recognize a law student who has demonstrated leadership within their school and in the surrounding community, especially in the area of LGBT equality.

 

Michael Greenberg Student Writing Competition

Established in memory of Michael Greenberg, a former National LGBT Bar Association board member and Philadelphia attorney who died in 1996 from complications with AIDS, this exciting competition is dedicated to encouraging and recognizing outstanding law student scholarship on the legal issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons.

 

International Association of LGBT Judges Student Writing Competition

The International Association of LGBT Judges sponsors a writing competition for all law students attending the 2014 Lavender Law Conference & Career Fair. This is an exciting opportunity for law students who wish to pursue their career as a member of the United States judiciary.

 

Timeline

All three student awards will follow the same final submission date of Friday, May 16, 2014 at 5:00pm ET. Late entries will not be considered. Students are able to enter all competitions, but only if they turn in different works for each submission.

Click here for full competition details. Should you have any questions, please send them to info@LGBTbar.org.

ACBA - Judicial Mentoring Project:  Thinking about applying for a judicial appointment. Diverse applicants needed.  Rolling application process through July 2014.  Please consider applying.   For more information: https://www.acbanet.org/Committees/EastBayDiversityBarCoalition.aspx

State Bar of California - 2015 JNE Commission:  Diverse applicants/commissioners needed.  Deadline to apply is June 2, 2014.  15 openings anticipated.  Please consider applying.   For more information:  http://cc.calbar.ca.gov/CommitteesCommissions/OtherEntityAppointments/JudicialNomineesEvaluation.aspx

 

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.

 

Request a ride with the push of a button! Uber is offering new users $20 off your first ride. Text BALIF to 827-222. You can also sign up at uber.com/go/BALIF and download the app for Android, Blackberry, or iPhone. Then sit back and enjoy the magic of Uber, everyone's private driver. (Valid for new users only, TAXI excluded).

 

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.

May 8 - MBC "Celebrating Diversity" Mixer- RSVP Required