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8:30am- 10:00am

Jones Day

555 California St. 26th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94104

BALIF and Jones Day welcome all summer associates, law students, attorneys, judges, staff, and friends from all around the Bay Area to their 5th Annual Pride Breakfast Celebration. Come and enjoy great food, drinks, and fun at this annual event before you head out to watch the Pride Parade. 

Please RSVP to Cristina Carman with total number of guests at: ccarman@jonesday.com

Blanc et Rouge

Two Embarcadero Center

Thursday, July 10, 2014

5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

 

Come out and have a glass of wine and meet both old and new friends at our fabulous happy hour! 

 

It's that time of year again! BALIF's Connections mentorship program is seeking mentors and mentees for 2014-2015.

 

The Connections mentoring program gives law students and newer lawyers the opportunity to be matched with established Bay Area attorneys who practice in a variety of settings, including large and small firms, nonprofit and public interest organizations, and governments. Mentors provide guidance about the nuts and bolts of careers in the law, as well as practical advice to help mentees build their job seeking and networking skills. For mentees, the Connections program offers a great opportunity for networking, skills development, and career building in the LGBT legal community by some of the best in the field, including judges, law firm partners, senior public interest and government attorneys, and corporate in-house counsel.

 

BECOME A MENTEE or MENTOR! If you are a law student, recent law school graduate, or newer attorney seeking a mentor, or if you are an experienced attorney interested in serving as a mentor, please contact Julie Wilensky, jwilensky@lewisfeinberg.com. Mentee applicants will be required to submit a brief questionnaire that will assist us in making a mentor-mentee match, including asking about the type of law you wish to practice and other specific information to help make your mentoring relationship a success. Mentors will be asked some basic questions to ensure that a prospective mentee is a good fit in terms of the mentor's practice area and time availability. Mentors and mentees must commit to meeting at least three times in person during the mentorship year (from September to May) and be willing to communicate more frequently by phone and email.

 

Mentor/mentee pairs will be assigned on a rolling basis between July and September. Stay tuned for more details on a happy hour to kick off the Connections program this fall.

 

New Americans Campaign is looking for volunteers of all expertise to help participants fill out their Naturalization & Fee Waiver Applications in two different CITIZENSHIP WORKSHOPS on:

 

Thursday, June 19, 2014 & Saturday, June 28, 2014

Training is MANDATORY. 

Please sign up by clicking on the following link: http://bit.ly/1l8O3Db

ABL-SF & Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (AABA), Solo & Small Firm Committee present:

 

Networking for Success:

The Art of Conversation and The Key to Connecting

 

Tickets for ABL-SF and AABA members were sold out! But don't worry, we added an extra 20 tickets for members. Space is limited, so register today!

 

** If you are a member of ABL-SF or AABA but purchased a paid ticket, we'll issue a refund upon your request while tickets are available.

 

When 

Thursday, June 26, 2014 (6 pm to 8 pm)

6:00-6:30 pm Registration

6:30-7:30 pm Workshop

7:30-8:00 pm Networking Social

 

* Light hors d'oeuvre and wine will be provided.

 

Where

PwC San Francisco

3 Embarcadero Center, 20th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94111  

 

Lambda Legal's San Francisco Bay Leadership Committee invites you to join us for the: STATE OF THE LGBT UNION

Wednesday, July 2, 2014, Wine and cheese reception at 5:30, Program at 6 pm
Hosted by Seyfarth Shaw, 560 Mission Street, S.F.

Our speakers (Shedrick Davis, Esq., Western Regional Director, Los Angeles & Judi O'Kelley, Esq., Deputy Director, Seattle) will give an overview of the current status of national marriage equality work, will outline other cutting edge cases Lambda Legal is currently litigating across the country, and will preview the pressing issues facing the LGBT community as we look to our future. Question and answer session to follow.

RSVP to Jessica Maxwell at jmaxwell@lambdalegal.org or 213-382-7600 ext. 222 or  www.lambdalegal.org/unionsf  

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

 

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 in the right hand column 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).

 

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 JOBS from the menu on the left.

June 29 - BALIF Jones Day Pride Parade Breakfast

July 10- BALIF Happy Hour

August 17 - PLF Sunset Bay Cruise